Veliki Preslav

Veliki Preslav is a small town in , not far from . It was the site of the second capital of medieval Bulgaria, and now the ruins are a national archeological reserve.
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  • Type: Town with 8,840 residents
  • Description: city in Veliki Preslav municipality, Shumen oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Eski Stambid”, “Eski-Stambul”, “Preslav”, “Preslaw”, “Prieslav”, and “Prjeslav”
  • Postal code: 9850

Places of Interest

Highlights include Round Church, Preslav.

Historic site
Photo: Кардам, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Round Church, also known as the Golden Church or the Church of St John, is a large partially preserved early medieval Eastern Orthodox church. It lies in Preslav, the former capital of the First Bulgarian Empire, today a town in northeastern .

Veliki Preslav

Latitude
43.1608° or 43° 9′ 39″ north
Longitude
26.8121° or 26° 48′ 44″ east
Population
8,840
Elevation
146 metres (479 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
BG PSC and BG VEP
Open location code
8GM85R66+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 273488678
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
727987
Wiki­data ID
Q243616
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Veliki Preslav” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فيليكي بريسلاف”
  • Armenian: “Պրեսլավ”
  • Armenian: “Վելիկի Պրեսլավ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Preslav”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі Праслаў”
  • Belarusian: “Вялікі-Праслаў”
  • Bulgarian: “Велики Преслав”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.ВЕЛИКИ ПРЕСЛАВ”
  • Bulgarian: “Преслав”
  • Catalan: “Preslav”
  • Catalan: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Cebuano: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤێلیکی پرێسلاڤ”
  • Chinese: “大普雷斯拉夫”
  • Church Slavic: “Прѣславъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Прѣѩславл҄ь · Блъгарїи”
  • Church Slavic: “Прѣѩславл҄ь”
  • Croatian: “Eski Stambolluk”
  • Croatian: “Joanupolis”
  • Croatian: “Preslav”
  • Croatian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Czech: “Preslav”
  • Danish: “Preslav”
  • Dutch: “Preslav”
  • Dutch: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فيليكى بريسلاف”
  • Esperanto: “granda Preslav”
  • Esperanto: “Preslav”
  • Esperanto: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Finnish: “Preslav”
  • Finnish: “Veliki Preslav”
  • French: “Pereiaslavets”
  • French: “Preslav”
  • French: “Véliki Preslav”
  • Georgian: “ველიკი-პრესლავი”
  • German: “Gemeinde Weliki Preslaw”
  • German: “Groß-Preslav”
  • German: “Preslav”
  • German: “Veliki Preslav”
  • German: “Weliki Preslaw”
  • Greek: “Μεγάλη Πρεσλάβα”
  • Hebrew: “וליקי פרסלב”
  • Hebrew: “פרסלב”
  • Hungarian: “Veliki Preszlav”
  • Irish: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Italian: “Preslav”
  • Italian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Japanese: “ヴェーリキー・プレスラフ”
  • Japanese: “プレスラヴ”
  • Japanese: “プレスラフ”
  • Kazakh: “Velïkï-Preslav”
  • Kazakh: “Велики-Преслав”
  • Kazakh: “ۆەلىيكىي-پرەسلاۆ”
  • Korean: “프레슬라프”
  • Latvian: “Veliki Preslavs”
  • Lithuanian: “Veliki Preslavas”
  • Macedonian: “Велики Преслав”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Preslav”
  • Norwegian: “Preslav”
  • Ossetian: “Велики-Преслав”
  • Persian: “ولیکی پرسلاو”
  • Polish: “Presław”
  • Polish: “Weliki Presław”
  • Portuguese: “Preslav”
  • Portuguese: “Preslava”
  • Romanian: “Preslav”
  • Romanian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Russian: “Велики Преслав”
  • Russian: “Велики-Преслав”
  • Russian: “Преслав”
  • Russian: “Эски-Стамбул”
  • Serbian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Serbian: “Велики Преслав”
  • Serbian: “Преслав”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Preslav”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Slovak: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Slovenian: “Veliki Preslav”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ولیکی پرسلاو”
  • Spanish: “Preslav”
  • Spanish: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Swedish: “Preslav”
  • Tatar: “Велики-Преслав”
  • Thai: “แปรสลัฟ”
  • Thai: “แวลีกีแปรสลัฟ”
  • Turkish: “Eski İstanbulluk”
  • Turkish: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Ukrainian: “Великий Преслав”
  • Ukrainian: “Велікі-Преслав”
  • Urdu: “ویلیکی پریسلاو”
  • Vietnamese: “Veliki Preslav”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Preslav”
  • Welsh: “Preslav”

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