Veles
Veles is a city in the Povardarie region of North Macedonia on both sides of the Vardar, the country's most important river. The city is home to over 43,000 residents, making it the sixth-largest in the country.
- Type: City with 43,700 residents
- Description: town in North Macedonia
- Also known as: “Bylazora”, “Grad Veles”, “Keuprulu”, “Köprülü ili”, “MK-13”, “Titov Veles”, “Veles, Macedonia”, “Veles, North Macedonia”, “Veles, Republiken Makedonien”, “Velessa”, “Weles”, “Βελεσσά”, “Велесъ”, “Велешко”, “Вила Зора”, “Ќопрулу”, “Купурли”, “Титов Велес”, “Титов-Велес”, “فلس (مقدونیه)”, “वेलेस, मैसेडोनिया”, “வேலெஸ்”, and “티토프벨레스”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Veles and Memorial ossuary.
Veles
- Category: locality
- Location: Veles, Povardarie, North Macedonia, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.7189° or 41° 43′ 8″ north
Longitude
21.7706° or 21° 46′ 14″ east
Population
43,700
Elevation
207 metres (679 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Volapük—“Veles” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qyprilliu”
- Albanian: “Velesi”
- Amharic: “ቬሌስ”
- Arabic: “فيليس”
- Armenian: “Վելես”
- Asturian: “Veles”
- Azerbaijani: “Veles”
- Basque: “Veles”
- Belarusian: “Велес”
- Belarusian: “Вэлес”
- Bengali: “ভেলেস”
- Bosnian: “Veles”
- Bulgarian: “Велес”
- Catalan: “Veles”
- Cebuano: “Veles”
- Chechen: “Велес”
- Chinese: “韋萊斯”
- Chinese: “韦莱斯”
- Church Slavic: “Вєлєсъ”
- Croatian: “Veles”
- Czech: “Veles”
- Danish: “Veles”
- Dutch: “Veles”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيليس”
- Esperanto: “Veles”
- Estonian: “Veles”
- Finnish: “Veles”
- French: “Veles”
- French: “Vélès”
- Georgian: “ველესი”
- German: “Veles”
- Greek: “Βέλες”
- Greek: “Βελεσά”
- Gujarati: “વેલ્સ”
- Hausa: “Veles”
- Hebrew: “ולס”
- Hindi: “वेलेस”
- Hungarian: “Velesz”
- Indonesian: “Veles”
- Interlingue: “Veles”
- Italian: “Veles”
- Japanese: “ヴェレス”
- Javanese: “Veles”
- Kannada: “ವೆಲೆಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Велес”
- Kirghiz: “Велес”
- Korean: “벨레스”
- Latvian: “Velesa”
- Lithuanian: “Velesas”
- Luxembourgish: “Veles”
- Macedonian: “Велес”
- Malay: “Veles”
- Marathi: “वेल्स”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vélès”
- Mingrelian: “ველესი”
- Moksha: “Вэлэс”
- Northern Frisian: “Veles”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Veles”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Veles”
- Norwegian: “Veles”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Veles”
- Oromo: “Veles”
- Panjabi: “ਵੇਲਸ”
- Persian: “ولس (شهر)”
- Persian: “ولس”
- Polish: “Wełes”
- Portuguese: “Veles”
- Pushto: “ویلس”
- Romanian: “Veles”
- Russian: “Велес”
- Scots: “Veles”
- Serbian: “Veles”
- Serbian: “Велес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Veles”
- Sinhala: “වෙලෙස්”
- Slovenian: “Veles, Severna Makedonija”
- Slovenian: “Veles”
- Somali: “Veles”
- Spanish: “Veles”
- Swahili: “Veles”
- Swedish: “Veles”
- Tajik: “Велес”
- Tamil: “விலேஸ்”
- Tatar: “Велес”
- Tatar: “Күперле”
- Telugu: “వెలెస్”
- Thai: “เวเลส”
- Turkish: “Köprülü, Kuzey Makedonya”
- Turkish: “Köprülü”
- Turkish: “Veles”
- Ukrainian: “Велес”
- Upper Sorbian: “Veles”
- Urdu: “ویلس”
- Urdu: “ویلیس، شمالی مقدونیہ”
- Uzbek: “Veles”
- Vietnamese: “Veles”
- Volapük: “Veles”
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