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Stara Zagora

Stara Zagora

Stara Zagora is a city in Northern Thrace, . It is the centre of booming industry, having a remarkable culture, and numerous tourist attractions.
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  • Type: City with 149,000 residents
  • Description: city in Stara Zagora municipality, Stara Zagora oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “The linden city” and “Zara”
  • Postal code: 6000
Photo: Iliya Dimitrov, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Beroe Stadium and Neolithic Dwellings Museum.

Stadium
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Stadion Beroe is a multi-purpose stadium in Stara Zagora, . It is located in the north-western part of the city, near the Ayazmoto. Currently, the venue is used for football matches and athletic competitions and is also the home ground of the local football club PFC Beroe Stara Zagora.

Museum
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in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria is a museum in Stara Zagora, , which contains ruins of two of the oldest surviving buildings in the world.

Theater building
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The , founded in 1925, is the second opera theatre in , after the National Opera and Ballet in . It has the first purpose-built opera house building in Bulgaria.

Stara Zagora

Latitude
42.4248° or 42° 25′ 29″ north
Longitude
25.6257° or 25° 37′ 33″ east
Population
149,000
Elevation
205 metres (673 feet)
IATA airport code
SZR
United Nations Location Code
BG SZR
Open location code
8GJ7CJFG+W7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 836529193
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
726848
Wiki­data ID
Q170415
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Stara Zagora” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Stara Zagora”
  • Arabic: “زغرة العتيقة”
  • Arabic: “ستارا زاغورا”
  • Armenian: “Ստարա Զագորա”
  • Armenian: “Ստարա-Զագորա”
  • Asturian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Azerbaijani: “Stara Zaqora”
  • Basque: “Stara Zagora”
  • Belarusian: “Стара Загора”
  • Belarusian: “Стара-Загора”
  • Bengali: “স্টারা জাগোরা”
  • Bulgarian: “Августа Траяна”
  • Bulgarian: “Верея”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.СТАРА ЗАГОРА”
  • Bulgarian: “Град на липите”
  • Bulgarian: “Ески Заара”
  • Bulgarian: “Зара”
  • Bulgarian: “Стара Загора”
  • Bulgarian: “Старозагорско”
  • Catalan: “Stara Zagora”
  • Cebuano: “Stara Zagora”
  • Central Kurdish: “ستارا زاگۆرا”
  • Chechen: “Стара-Загора”
  • Chinese: “旧扎戈拉”
  • Chinese: “旧扎果拉”
  • Chinese: “舊扎戈拉”
  • Church Slavic: “Стара Загора”
  • Church Slavic: “Стара Ꙁагора”
  • Croatian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Czech: “Stara Zagora”
  • Czech: “Stará Zagora”
  • Danish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Dutch: “Stara Zagora”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ستارا زاجورا”
  • Esperanto: “Stara Zagora”
  • Estonian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Finnish: “Stara Zagora”
  • French: “Stara Zagora”
  • Georgian: “სტარა-ზაგორა”
  • German: “Augusta Traiana”
  • German: “Boruj”
  • German: “Eski Sagra”
  • German: “Irinopolis”
  • German: “Stara Sagora”
  • German: “Stara Zagora”
  • Greek: “Στάρα Ζαγκόρα”
  • Greek: “Στάρα Ζαγόρα”
  • Gujarati: “સ્ટારા ઝાગોરા”
  • Hebrew: “סטארה זאגורה”
  • Hindi: “स्टारा जगोरा”
  • Hungarian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Hungarian: “Sztara Zagora”
  • Ido: “Stara Zagora”
  • Indonesian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Irish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Italian: “Augusta Traiana”
  • Italian: “Beroe Augusta Traiana”
  • Italian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Japanese: “スタラ・ザゴラ”
  • Japanese: “スタラザゴラ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಾರಾ ಝಗೋರಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Stara-Zagora”
  • Kazakh: “Стара-Загора”
  • Kazakh: “ستارا-زاگورا”
  • Korean: “스타라 자고라”
  • Korean: “스타라자고라”
  • Ladino: “Eski Zagra”
  • Latvian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Latvian: “Starazagora”
  • Lithuanian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Lombard: “Stara Zagora”
  • Luxembourgish: “Stara Sagora”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Macedonian: “Стара Загора”
  • Malay: “Stara Zagora”
  • Marathi: “स्टारा ज़गोरा”
  • Mongolian: “Стара Загора”
  • Mongolian: “Стара-Загора”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stara Sagora (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Stara Sagora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stara Zagora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stara Zagora”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Стара Загора”
  • Norwegian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Ossetian: “Старæ-Загорæ”
  • Ossetian: “Стара-Загорæ”
  • Persian: “استارا زاگورا”
  • Polish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Portuguese: “Stara Zagora”
  • Romanian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Russian: “Боруй”
  • Russian: “Ески-Загра”
  • Russian: “Стара-Загора”
  • Russian: “Эски-Загра”
  • Scots: “Stara Zagora”
  • Serbian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Serbian: “Стара Загора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Silesian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටාරා සගොරා, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ස්ටාරා සගොරා”
  • Slovak: “Stara Zagora”
  • Slovak: “Stará Zagora”
  • Slovenian: “Stara Zagora”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استارا زاگورا”
  • Spanish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Swedish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Swedish: “Zara”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்டாரா சாகோரா”
  • Tatar: “Стара-Загора”
  • Telugu: “స్టారా జగోరా”
  • Thai: “สตารา ซาโกรา”
  • Turkish: “Eski Zağara”
  • Turkish: “Eski Zagra”
  • Turkish: “Eski Zağra”
  • Turkish: “Stara Zagora”
  • Turkmen: “Stara-Zagora”
  • Ukrainian: “Стара Загора”
  • Ukrainian: “Стара-Загора”
  • Urdu: “ستارا زاگورا”
  • Uzbek: “Starazagora”
  • Venetian: “Stara Zagora”
  • Veps: “Stara Zagor”
  • Vietnamese: “Stara Zagora”
  • Vlax Romani: “Stara Zagora”
  • Volapük: “Stara Zagora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Stara Zagora”
  • Welsh: “Stara Zagora”
  • Western Armenian: “Սթարա Զակորա”
  • Western Panjabi: “ستارا زاگورا”
  • Wu Chinese: “旧扎戈拉”
  • Yue Chinese: “舊扎戈拉”
  • “Stara Zagora”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Stara Zagora”. Photo: Balkanregion, CC BY-SA 3.0.