Balkan Mountains
Officially called Stara planina, meaning the old mountain, the Balkan Mountains are a mountain chain in Bulgaria and Serbia. The Balkan is also a cultural region in Bulgaria that includes specific parts of the mountain and the areas adjacent to them.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Kazanlak
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Kazanlak is a city of about 80,000 people in Northern Thrace, close to the Balkan mountain range and Shipka Pass.
Karlovo
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Karlovo is a beautiful town of about 20,000 inhabitants in the Balkan Mountains of Bulgaria.
Destinations
Sevlievo
Sevlievo is a city of 24,000 people in Bulgaria at the foot of the northern side of the Balkan mountains.Tryavna
Tryavna is a small town in the central part of the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria, near Gabrovo.Nature Park Bulgarka
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Nature Park Bulgarka is a protected national nature park in the central northern part of the Balkan Mountains near the Bulgarian towns of Gabrovo and Tryavna.
Balkan Mountains
- Type: Mountain range
- Description: mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula
- Location: Lovech, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
43.2674° or 43° 16' 3" northLongitude of centre
25.0676° or 25° 4' 3" eastElevation
124 metres (407 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
way 1213669460OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=mountain_rangeGeoNames ID
792963Wikidata ID
Q170427Balkan Mountains Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Albanian: Malet Ballkan
- Albanian: Malet e Ballkanit
- Arabic: جبال البلقان
- Aragonese: Monts Balcans
- Armenian: Էմոս
- Armenian: Ստարա Պլանինա
- Asturian: Monte Balcanes
- Asturian: Montes Balcanes
- Azerbaijani: Balkan dağları
- Bashkir: Балҡан тауҙары
- Bashkir: Стара-Планина
- Basque: Balkanetako mendikatea
- Basque: Balkanetako mendilerroa
- Basque: Balkan mendiak
- Belarusian: Балканскія горы
- Belarusian: Балканы
- Belarusian: Старая Планіна
- Bulgarian: Балкан
- Bulgarian: Балкана
- Bulgarian: Стара планина
- Bulgarian: Хемус
- Catalan: Serralada dels Balcans
- Catalan: serralada dels Balcans
- Cebuano: Balkan Mountains
- Chinese: 巴尔干山
- Chinese: 巴尔干山脉
- Chinese: 巴爾幹山脈
- Chinese: 斯塔拉山脉
- Church Slavic: Стара планина
- Croatian: Balkan
- Croatian: Stara Planina
- Czech: Stara planina
- Czech: Stará planina
- Danish: Balkanbjergene
- Danish: Balkanbjergkæden
- Dutch: Balkan
- Dutch: Balkangebergte
- Dutch: Stara Planina
- Egyptian Arabic: جبال البلقان
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل جبال البلقان
- English: Balkan mountain range
- English: the Balkans
- Esperanto: Balkana montaro
- Esperanto: Stara Planina
- Estonian: Balkani mäed
- Estonian: Stara planina
- Finnish: Balkanin vuoret
- Finnish: Balkanvuoret
- French: Grand Balkan
- French: Mont Hémos
- French: Mont Hémus
- French: Stara planina
- Galician: Cordilleira dos Balcáns
- Galician: Montes Balcáns
- Georgian: ბალკანეთის მთები
- Georgian: სტარა-პლანინა
- Georgian: სტარა პლანინა
- German: Balkan
- German: Balkangebirge
- German: Haemus
- German: Hemus
- German: Stara Planina
- Greek: Αίμος
- Hebrew: אזור הרי הבלקן
- Hebrew: הרי הבלקן
- Hebrew: הרי הבלקנים
- Hungarian: Balkán-hegység
- Icelandic: Balkan-fjöll
- Indonesian: Pegunungan Balkan
- Italian: Balcani
- Italian: Montagne balcaniche
- Italian: Monti Balcani
- Italian: Stara planina
- Japanese: スタラ・プラニナ
- Japanese: スタラ・プラニーナ
- Japanese: スターラ・プラニナ
- Japanese: スターラ・プラニーナ
- Japanese: バルカン山脈
- Japanese: ヴァルカン山脈
- Javanese: Pagunungan Balkan
- Kirghiz: Пирин
- Korean: 발칸 산맥
- Korean: 발칸산맥
- Korean: 스타라플라니나
- Korean: 스타라 플라니나
- Korean: 스타라플라니나 산맥
- Korean: 스타라 플라니나 산맥
- Ladin: Crëps de Balkan
- Latin: Haemus
- Latin: Stara Planina
- Latvian: Balkānu kalni
- Latvian: Stara Planina
- Lithuanian: Balkanų kalnai
- Lithuanian: Stara Planina
- Macedonian: Стара Планина
- Malay: Pergunungan Balkan
- Malayalam: ബാൾക്കൻ പർവ്വതനിരകൾ
- Mazanderani: بالکان کوهون
- Northern Frisian: Balkanberger
- Norwegian: Balkanfjellene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Balkan-fjellene
- Norwegian Bokmål: Balkanfjella
- Norwegian Bokmål: Balkanfjellene
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Balkanfjella
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Stara Planina
- Occitan (post 1500): Monts dels Balcans
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Hæmus
- Panjabi: ਬਾਲਕਨ ਪਹਾੜ
- Persian: رشتهکوه بالکان
- Polish: Stara Planina
- Polish: Stara Płanina
- Portuguese: Balcãs
- Portuguese: Bálcãs
- Portuguese: Cordilheira Balcânica
- Portuguese: Cordilheira dos Balcãs
- Portuguese: Cordilheira dos Bálcãs
- Portuguese: Stara Planina
- Romanian: Munţii Balcani
- Romanian: Munții Balcani
- Romanian: Munții Stara Planina
- Romanian: Stara Planina
- Russian: Балканские горы
- Russian: Балканский хребет
- Russian: Стара-Планина
- Russian: Старая Планина
- Rusyn: Балкан
- Serbian: Stara planina
- Serbian: Балкан
- Serbian: Балканске планине
- Serbian: Планина Балкан
- Serbian: Средишњи Балкан
- Serbian: Стара Планина
- Serbian: Стара планина
- Serbo-Croatian: Balkan
- Serbo-Croatian: Stara Planina
- Serbo-Croatian: Stara planina
- Slovak: Balkán
- Slovak: Stara planina
- Slovak: Stará planina
- Slovenian: Balkansko gorovje
- Slovenian: Haemus
- Slovenian: Stara Planina
- Slovenian: Stara planina
- Spanish: Cordillera Balcanica
- Spanish: Cordillera Balcánica
- Spanish: Cordillera de los Balcanes
- Spanish: Montes Balcanes
- Spanish: Parque Nacional de Stara Planina
- Spanish: Stara Planina
- Swahili: Milima ya Balkani
- Swedish: Balkan
- Swedish: Balkanbergen
- Swedish: Stara Planina
- Swiss German: Balkan
- Tamil: பால்கன் மலைகள்
- Tatar: Балкан таулары
- Thai: เทือกเขาบอลข่าน
- Tosk Albanian: Balkangebirge
- Turkish: Balkan Dağları
- Turkish: Koca Balkan Dağları
- Turkish: Koca Balkan Dağı
- Turkish: Stara Planina
- Ukrainian: Балканські гори
- Ukrainian: Стара-Планіна
- Ukrainian: Стара Планина
- Urdu: سلسلہ کوہ بلقان
- Uzbek: Staraplanina
- Venetian: Monti Balcani
- Vietnamese: Dãy núi Balkan
- Western Armenian: Էմոս
- Western Panjabi: سلسلہ کوہ بلقان
- Wu Chinese: 巴尔干山脉
- Yue Chinese: 巴爾幹山脈
- Balkanfjöll
- Balkans
- Glavna Staroplaninska Veriga
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Balkan Mountains. Photo: Iliana Teneva, CC BY-SA 4.0.