Târgoviște
Târgovişte is a city in Muntenia, the capital of the medieval principality Wallachia between 1396 and 1714. Today it has almost 90.000 inhabitants.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: fusion-of-horizons, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 79,600 residents
- Description: city in Dâmbovița County, Romania
- Also known as: “65342”, “Municipiul Targoviste”, “Municipiul Târgovişte”, “Targoviste”, “Târgovişte”, and “Tergowisch”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Târgoviște City Hall and Chindia Tower.
Târgoviște City Hall
Town hall
Photo: Biruitorul, Public domain.
Târgoviște City Hall is a town hall.
Chindia Tower
Tower
Photo: CristianChirita, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Chindia Tower is a tower in the Curtea Domnească monuments ensemble in Târgoviște, Romania, built in the 15th century. The tower was begun during the second reign of Prince Vlad III the Impaler over Wallachia and took its final form during the 19th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Viforâta.
Târgoviște
- Categories: municipality of Romania, capital of county in Romania, and locality
- Location: Dâmbovița County, Romania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
44.9268° or 44° 55′ 36″ northLongitude
25.4628° or 25° 27′ 46″ eastPopulation
79,600Elevation
281 metres (922 feet)Open location code
8GP7WFG7+P4OpenStreetMap ID
node 116851075OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8334634Wikidata ID
Q188673
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Western Panjabi—“Târgoviște” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Târgovişte”
- Achinese: “Târgoviște”
- Afrikaans: “Târgoviște”
- Arabic: “ترغوشتة”
- Arabic: “تَرْغَوِشْتَة”
- Armenian: “Տըրգովիշտե”
- Azerbaijani: “Tırqovişte”
- Basque: “Târgoviște”
- Belarusian: “Тыргавіштэ”
- Bengali: “টারগোভিস্তে”
- Bulgarian: “Търговище”
- Catalan: “Tărgovişte”
- Catalan: “Târgovişte”
- Catalan: “Târgoviște”
- Cebuano: “Municipiul Târgoviște”
- Cebuano: “Târgoviște (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rumanya)”
- Central Kurdish: “تارگۆڤیشتێ”
- Chinese: “特尔戈维什泰”
- Chinese: “特爾戈維什泰”
- Croatian: “Târgovişte”
- Croatian: “Târgoviște”
- Czech: “Targoviste”
- Czech: “Târgovişte”
- Czech: “Târgoviște”
- Czech: “Tirgoviste”
- Czech: “Tîrgovişte”
- Czech: “Trhoviště”
- Danish: “Târgoviste”
- Danish: “Târgovişte”
- Danish: “Târgoviște”
- Dutch: “Targoviste”
- Dutch: “Târgoviste”
- Dutch: “Târgovişte”
- Dutch: “Târgoviște”
- Dutch: “Tirgoviste”
- Dutch: “Tîrgovişte”
- Esperanto: “Targoviste”
- Esperanto: “Târgovişte”
- Esperanto: “Târgoviște”
- Estonian: “Targoviste”
- Estonian: “Târgovişte”
- Estonian: “Târgoviște”
- Finnish: “Targoviște”
- Finnish: “Târgoviste”
- Finnish: “Târgovişte”
- Finnish: “Târgoviște”
- French: “Targoviste”
- French: “Târgoviste”
- French: “Târgovişte”
- French: “Târgoviște”
- French: “Tergovist”
- French: “Tîgovişte”
- French: “Tîrgoviste”
- French: “Tîrgovişte”
- French: “Tîrgoviște”
- Georgian: “ტირგოვიშტე”
- German: “Târgoviște”
- German: “Tergowisch”
- Greek: “Τιργκόβιστε”
- Gujarati: “ટાર્ગોવિસ્ટ”
- Hebrew: “טארגובישטה”
- Hebrew: “טרגובישטה”
- Hindi: “तारगोविस्टे”
- Hungarian: “Târgoviște”
- Hungarian: “Tergovistye”
- Indonesian: “Targoviste”
- Indonesian: “Târgoviște”
- Irish: “Târgoviște”
- Italian: “Târgoviște”
- Japanese: “Târgovişte”
- Japanese: “トゥルゴヴィシュテ”
- Kannada: “ಟಾರ್ಗೋವಿಸ್ಟ”
- Kannada: “ತಾರ್ಗೊವಿಶ್ತೆ”
- Korean: “트르고비슈테”
- Latin: “Târgovişte”
- Latin: “Târgoviște”
- Latvian: “Tirgovište”
- Lithuanian: “Tirgovištė”
- Lombard: “Târgovişte”
- Lombard: “Târgoviṣte”
- Lombard: “Târgoviște”
- Macedonian: “Трговиште”
- Malay: “Targoviste”
- Malay: “Târgovişte”
- Malay: “Târgoviște”
- Marathi: “टर्गोविस्ट”
- Minangkabau: “Târgoviște”
- Moksha: “Тырговиштэ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Târgoviște”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Targoviste”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Târgoviște”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tîrgovişte”
- Ossetian: “Тырговиште (Румыни)”
- Ossetian: “Тырговиште”
- Persian: “ترگوویشته”
- Persian: “تیرگوویشته”
- Polish: “Targoviste”
- Polish: “Târgoviște”
- Polish: “Tîrgovişte”
- Portuguese: “Targoviste”
- Portuguese: “Târgoviște”
- Romanian: “Târgoviște”
- Romanian: “Tîrgoviște”
- Russian: “Тырговиште”
- Scots: “Târgoviște”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Târgoviște”
- Serbian: “Târgovişte”
- Serbian: “Trgovište”
- Serbian: “Општина Тарговиште (Дамбовица)”
- Serbian: “Трговиште”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Târgovişte, Dâmbovița”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Târgoviște, Dâmbovița”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Târgoviște”
- Sinhala: “ටාර්ගොවිස්ටේ”
- Slovak: “Targoviste”
- Slovak: “Târgoviște”
- Slovenian: “Târgoviște”
- South Azerbaijani: “ترگوویشته، رومانی”
- Spanish: “Targoviste”
- Spanish: “Targovişte”
- Spanish: “Târgoviste”
- Spanish: “Târgovişte”
- Spanish: “Târgoviște”
- Spanish: “Tîrgoviște”
- Swedish: “Targoviste”
- Swedish: “Târgovişte”
- Swedish: “Târgoviște”
- Tajik: “Tirgoviște”
- Tajik: “Тирговиште”
- Tamil: “டார்கோவிஸ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Тырговиште”
- Telugu: “తర్ గొ విస్టే”
- Thai: “ตีร์โกวิชเต”
- Thai: “ตือร์กอวิชเต”
- Turkish: “Târgoviște”
- Turkish: “Tirgovişte”
- Ukrainian: “Тирговіште”
- Ukrainian: “Тирґовіште”
- Upper Sorbian: “Târgoviște”
- Urdu: “تیرگوویشتے”
- Vietnamese: “Targoviste”
- Vietnamese: “Târgoviște”
- Vlax Romani: “Târgoviște”
- Waray (Philippines): “Târgoviște”
- Western Panjabi: “ترگوویشتے ،رومانیہ”
- “Târgoviște”
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