Tver
Tver is a city in Tver Oblast. It was the capital of the powerful medieval Tver Principality and one-time rival to Moscow as Russia's preeminent power base.
- Type: City with 413,000 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Tver region in western Russia
- Also known as: “Tver‘”, “город Тверь”, “Калінін”, and “トベリ”
- Address: городской округ Тверь
Places of Interest
Highlights: Travel Palace and Botanical Garden of Tver State University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Morozovsky Gorodok in Tver and Avvakumovo.
Tver
- Categories: city or town, big city, City of oblast significance, and locality
- Location: Tver Oblast, Central Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
56.8587° or 56° 51′ 31″ north
Longitude
35.9208° or 35° 55′ 15″ east
Population
413,000
Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)
Established
1135
IATA airport code
KLD
UN/LOCODE
RU TVR
Open location code
9G8QVW5C+F8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tver” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Twer”
- Arabic: “تفير”
- Armenian: “Տվեր”
- Asturian: “Tver”
- Azerbaijani: “Tver”
- Bashkir: “Тверь”
- Basque: “Tver”
- Belarusian: “Цвер”
- Belarusian: “Цьвер”
- Bengali: “তিভের”
- Breton: “Tver”
- Bulgarian: “Твер”
- Catalan: “Tver”
- Cebuano: “Tver (kapital sa lalawigan sa Rusya)”
- Cebuano: “Tver”
- Chechen: “Тверь”
- Chinese: “特維爾”
- Chinese: “特维尔”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tver”
- Croatian: “Tver”
- Czech: “Tver”
- Danish: “Tver”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tver”
- Dutch: “Tver”
- Eastern Mari: “Тверь”
- Erzya: “Тверь ош”
- Esperanto: “Tver”
- Esperanto: “Tverj”
- Estonian: “Tver”
- Finnish: “Tver”
- French: “Tver”
- Georgian: “ტვერი”
- German: “Twer”
- German: “Kalinin” (historical)
- Greek: “Τβερ”
- Gujarati: “ટ્વેર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tver”
- Hebrew: “טבר”
- Hindi: “त्वेर”
- Hungarian: “Tver”
- Indonesian: “Tver”
- Irish: “Tver”
- Italian: “Tver‘”
- Italian: “Tver’”
- Japanese: “トヴェリ”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ವೇರ್”
- Kazakh: “Тверь”
- Kirghiz: “Тверь”
- Komi-Permyak: “Тверь”
- Korean: “트베리”
- Kotava: “Tver”
- Ladin: “Tver”
- Latin: “Tueria”
- Latvian: “Tvera”
- Lithuanian: “Tverė”
- Low German: “Twer”
- Macedonian: “Твер”
- Malagasy: “Tver”
- Malay: “Tver”
- Marathi: “त्वेर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tver”
- Mingrelian: “ტვერი”
- Mirandese: “Tver”
- Moksha: “Тверь”
- Mongolian: “Тверь”
- Nauru: “Tver”
- Northern Frisian: “Twer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tver”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tver”
- Norwegian: “Tver”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tver”
- Ossetian: “Тверь”
- Persian: “تور”
- Polish: “Twer”
- Portuguese: “Tver”
- Pushto: “توېر”
- Romanian: “Tver”
- Russian: “Калинин” (historical)
- Russian: “Тверь”
- Scots: “Tver”
- Serbian: “Твер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tver”
- Sinhala: “ට්වර්”
- Slovak: “Tver”
- Slovenian: “Tver”
- South Azerbaijani: “تور”
- Spanish: “Tver”
- Swahili: “Tver”
- Swedish: “Tver”
- Tagalog: “Tver”
- Tajik: “Твер”
- Talysh: “Tver”
- Tamil: “திவெர்”
- Tamil: “திவேர்”
- Tatar: “Тверь”
- Telugu: “ట్వెర్”
- Thai: “ตเวียร์”
- Turkish: “Tver”
- Udmurt: “Тверь”
- Ukrainian: “Твер”
- Ukrainian: “Тверь”
- Upper Sorbian: “Twer”
- Urdu: “تور”
- Urdu: “تویر”
- Uzbek: “Tver”
- Venetian: “Tver”
- Veps: “Tver‘”
- Veps: “Tver’”
- Vietnamese: “Tver”
- Walloon: “Tver”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tver”
- Welsh: “Tver”
- Western Frisian: “Tver”
- Western Mari: “Тверь”
- Western Panjabi: “توور”
- Western Panjabi: “تویر”
- Wu Chinese: “特维尔”
- Yue Chinese: “特維爾”
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