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Veliko Tarnovo (Bulgarian: Велико Търново, romanized: Veliko Tŭrnovo, pronounced [vɛˈliko ˈtɤrnovo]; "Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the historical and cultural capital of Bulgaria.
The Shishman bath is one of the few authentic works of Tarnovo architecture. [5] Today, the fortresses of Tsarevets and Trapezitsa, the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, Veliko Tarnovo, the Church of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki, the Holy Forty Martyrs Church, and the Shishman's Bath are partially or completely rebuilt
The village is also mentioned by the Roman Catholic bishop of Sofia Petar Bogdan Bakshev, who visited Tarnovo in 1640. He remarked there was a village up in the mountains, from where the whole of Tarnovo could be seen, that had about 1,000 houses. Another Roman Catholic bishop, Anton Stefanov, refers to Arbanasi in 1685.
It is named after its administrative centre - the old capital of the country, the city of Veliko Tarnovo which is also the main town of the province. The municipality embraces a territory of 883 km 2 (341 sq mi) with a population of 88,724 inhabitants, as of December 2009.
The Patriarchal Cathedral of the Holy Ascension of God is located on top of the Tsarevets hill, overlooking the modern city of Veliko Tarnovo. The church was part of a group of buildings which constituted the seat of the Bulgarian Patriarchate and acted as the city and the country's main cathedral. [ 1 ]
The relief of the city is highly have a medium degree of roughness (RR from 5 to 40‰). To the east, the town is surrounded by the Tarnovo Heights, to the west by Kalakaya and Salamatya, to the south by the Debeli Bair, the Big and Small Duvar, Patryal Dyal, to the north by Orlovets and Kartala.
The church lies at the northeastern foot of the Trapezitsa and Tsarevets hills, on the right bank of the Yantra River, outside the city's medieval fortifications.. Architecturally, it has a pentahedral apse and a cross-domed design with a narthex and a fore-
Universities in Veliko Tarnovo (2 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Veliko Tarnovo" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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