Smolyan
Smolyan is a town in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria. It occupies the narrow gorge of the Cherna River in the East Rhodope Mountains, and has 34 000 residents.
- Type: City with 30,500 residents
- Description: city in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Ahıçelebi”, “Gemeinde Smoljan”, “Paschmaklii”, “Pashmaklă”, “Pashmakli”, “Pašmakli”, “Pasmakly”, “Пашмакли”, “Смолян (Болгария)”, “Смолян (город)”, and “斯莫樑”
- Postal code: 4700
Places of Interest
Highlights: Smolyan History Museum and Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov.
Rhodope Dramatic Theatre Nikolay Haytov
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pisanitsa.
Smolyan
- Categories: oblast seat, municipality seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Smolyan, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.5754° or 41° 34′ 32″ north
Longitude
24.7127° or 24° 42′ 46″ east
Population
30,500
Elevation
921 metres (3,022 feet)
UN/LOCODE
BG SML
Open location code
8GH6HPG7+53
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Smolyan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ስሞልያን”
- Arabic: “سموليان”
- Arabic: “سمولين”
- Armenian: “Սմոլյան”
- Azerbaijani: “Smolyan”
- Bashkir: “Смолян”
- Basque: “Smolian”
- Belarusian: “Смолян”
- Bengali: “স্মলিয়ান”
- Bengali: “স্মোলিয়ান”
- Bulgarian: “Смолян”
- Catalan: “Smolian”
- Cebuano: “Smolyan (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
- Cebuano: “Smolyan”
- Central Kurdish: “سمۆلیان”
- Chechen: “Смолян”
- Chinese: “斯莫梁”
- Church Slavic: “Смол҄ьнъ”
- Croatian: “Smoljan”
- Czech: “Smoljan”
- Danish: “Smolyan”
- Dutch: “Smoljan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سموليان”
- Esperanto: “Smoljan”
- Finnish: “Smoljan”
- French: “Smolyan”
- Galician: “Smolyan”
- German: “Smoljan”
- Greek: “Σμόλιαν”
- Gujarati: “સ્મોલિયન”
- Hausa: “Smolyan”
- Hebrew: “סמוליאן”
- Hindi: “स्मोलयां”
- Hindi: “स्मोल्यान”
- Hungarian: “Szmoljan”
- Icelandic: “Smoljan”
- Ido: “Smolyan”
- Indonesian: “Smolyan”
- Irish: “Smolyan”
- Italian: “Smoljan”
- Japanese: “スモリャン”
- Javanese: “Smolyan”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಮೋಲ್ಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Smolyan”
- Kazakh: “Смолян”
- Kazakh: “سموليان”
- Kirghiz: “Смолян”
- Korean: “스몰랸”
- Latvian: “Smoļana”
- Lithuanian: “Smolianas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Smolian”
- Macedonian: “Смољан”
- Malay: “Smolyan”
- Marathi: “स्मोलियन”
- Moksha: “Смолян”
- Northern Frisian: “Smoljan (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Smoljan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Smolyan”
- Oromo: “Smolyan”
- Ossetian: “Смолян”
- Panjabi: “ਸਮੋਲਿਆਨ”
- Persian: “اسمولیان”
- Persian: “سمولیان”
- Polish: “Smolan”
- Portuguese: “Smolyan”
- Pushto: “سمولین”
- Romanian: “Smolean”
- Romanian: “Smolian”
- Russian: “Смолян”
- Scots: “Smolyan”
- Serbian: “Smoljan”
- Serbian: “Смољан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Smoljan”
- Sinhala: “ස්මොලියන්”
- Slovak: “Smoľan”
- Slovenian: “Smoljan”
- Somali: “Smolyan”
- South Azerbaijani: “سمولیان”
- Spanish: “Smolyan”
- Swahili: “Smolyan”
- Swedish: “Smoljan”
- Tajik: “Смолян”
- Tamil: “ஸ்மோலியன்”
- Tatar: “Смолән”
- Tatar: “Смолян”
- Telugu: “స్మోల్యాన్”
- Thai: “สโมลยัน”
- Turkish: “Paşmaklı”
- Turkish: “Smolyan, Bulgaristan”
- Turkish: “Smolyan”
- Ukrainian: “Смолян”
- Urdu: “سمولیان”
- Urdu: “سمولین”
- Uzbek: “Smolyan”
- Vietnamese: “Smolyan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Smolyan”
- Welsh: “Smolyan”
- Western Panjabi: “سمولیان”
- “Смолян”
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