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Tetovo

Tetovo

Tetovo is a town tucked into region in the northwestern corner of , in the shadow of the Šar Mountains. The major city of the Polog region, it has about 53,000 people, making it the fifth-largest city in North Macedonia.
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  • Type: City with 85,000 residents
  • Description: town and seat of Tetovo Municipality, North Macedonia
  • Also known as: “Qalqan Delen”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arabati Baba Teḱe and Tetovo Fortress.

Mosque
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The Arabati Baba Tekḱe is an Ottoman-era takya located in Tetovo, . The tekke was originally built in 1538 around the türbe of dervish Sersem Ali Baba.

Ruins
Photo: Деан Лазаревски, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a ruined fortress and archaeological site in Tetovo, . Because of its location on a hill called Baltepe, it is also known as Baltepe Fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Šipkovsko Teḱe.

Locality
Photo: Деан Лазаревски, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality.

Tetovo

Latitude
42.0068° or 42° 0′ 25″ north
Longitude
20.9729° or 20° 58′ 22″ east
Population
85,000
Elevation
466 metres (1,529 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MK TEV
Open location code
8GJ22X4F+P4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293657706
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
785082
Wiki­data ID
Q157024
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Tetovo” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Tetovo”
  • Albanian: “Tetova”
  • Albanian: “Tetovë”
  • Albanian: “Tetovo”
  • Arabic: “تيتوفو”
  • Armenian: “Տետովո”
  • Asturian: “Tetovo”
  • Belarusian: “Тэтава”
  • Belarusian: “Цетава”
  • Bengali: “তেতুভো”
  • Bengali: “তেতোভো”
  • Bosnian: “Tetovo”
  • Breton: “Tetovo”
  • Bulgarian: “Тетово”
  • Bulgarian: “Тетовско”
  • Catalan: “Tètovo”
  • Cebuano: “Tetovo (kapital sa rehiyon)”
  • Cebuano: “Tetovo”
  • Chinese: “Tetovo”
  • Chinese: “泰托沃”
  • Church Slavic: “Хътѣтово”
  • Croatian: “Tetovo”
  • Czech: “Tetovo”
  • Danish: “Tetovo”
  • Dutch: “Tetova”
  • Dutch: “Tetovo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تيتوفو”
  • Esperanto: “Tetovo”
  • Estonian: “Tetovo”
  • Finnish: “Tetovo”
  • French: “Tetovo”
  • Galician: “Tetovë”
  • Georgian: “ტეტოვო”
  • German: “Kalkandelen”
  • German: “MK-76”
  • German: “Tetova”
  • German: “Tetovë”
  • German: “Tetovo”
  • Greek: “Τέτοβο”
  • Gujarati: “ટેટોવો”
  • Hebrew: “טטובו”
  • Hindi: “तेतोवो”
  • Hungarian: “Tetovo”
  • Ido: “Tetovo”
  • Indonesian: “Tetovo”
  • Interlingue: “Tetovo”
  • Irish: “Tetovo”
  • Italian: “Municipio di Tetovo”
  • Italian: “Tetovo”
  • Japanese: “テトヴォ”
  • Kannada: “ಟೆಟೊವೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Tetovo”
  • Kazakh: “Тетово”
  • Kazakh: “تەتوۆو”
  • Korean: “테토보”
  • Latin: “Oaeneum”
  • Latvian: “Tetova”
  • Latvian: “Tetovo”
  • Latvian: “Tetovо”
  • Lithuanian: “Tetovas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tetovо”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tetovo”
  • Macedonian: “Тетово”
  • Malay: “Tetovo”
  • Marathi: “टेटोवो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tetovo”
  • Mingrelian: “ტეტოვო”
  • Moksha: “Тэтова”
  • Moksha: “Тэтово”
  • Nauru: “Tetovo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tetovo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tetovo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalkandelen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tetovë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tetovo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Тетово”
  • Norwegian: “Tetovo”
  • Persian: “تتوفو”
  • Persian: “تتوو”
  • Polish: “Tetovo”
  • Polish: “Tetowo”
  • Portuguese: “Tetovo”
  • Romanian: “Tetovo”
  • Russian: “Тетово”
  • Scots: “Tetovo”
  • Serbian: “Kalkandelen”
  • Serbian: “Tetovo”
  • Serbian: “Тетово”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tetovo”
  • Silesian: “Tetowo”
  • Sinhala: “ටෙට්වෝ”
  • Slovak: “Tetovo”
  • Slovenian: “Tetovo”
  • Spanish: “Tetovo”
  • Swedish: “Popova Sapka”
  • Swedish: “Tetovo”
  • Tamil: “டேட்டாவோ”
  • Tatar: “Калкантелән”
  • Tatar: “Тетово”
  • Telugu: “టెతోవో”
  • Thai: “เตโตโว”
  • Thai: “แตตอวอ”
  • Turkish: “Kalkandelen ili”
  • Turkish: “Kalkandelen”
  • Turkish: “Tetova ili”
  • Turkish: “Tetova”
  • Turkish: “Tetovo”
  • Ukrainian: “Калканделен”
  • Ukrainian: “Тетово”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tetovo”
  • Urdu: “تیتووو”
  • Venetian: “Tetovo”
  • Vietnamese: “Tetovo”
  • Volapük: “Tetovo”
  • Welsh: “Tetovo”
  • Wu Chinese: “泰托沃”

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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 “Tetovo”. Photo: Ggia, CC BY-SA 3.0.