Hisarya
Sign in to savecity in Hisarya municipality, Plovdiv oblast, Bulgaria
Key facts
- Country
- Bulgaria
- Provinces oblast
- Plovdiv Province
- Mayor
- Iva Valcheva
- Elevation
- 346 m (1,135 ft)
- Total
- 6,642
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+3 ( EEST )
- Area codes
- 0337 from Bulgaria, 00359337 from outside
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Hisarya
- Country
- Ottoman Empire
- Located in
- Hisarya
- Population
- 5888
- Area
- 90.115
- Elevation
- 346
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Capital of
- Hisarya
- Official website
- hisar.bg
- Image
- Hisarya Fortress gates 008.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0337
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- Commons category
- Hisarya
- twinned administrative body
- Aleksinac
- different from
- Hisarya Fortress
- postal code
- 4180
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Bulgaria
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Hisarya (Bulgarian: Хисаря [xiˈsarʲɐ], also known as Hisar, Hissar or Hissarya, formerly: Toplitsa) is a small town and a major spa resort in Plovdiv Province, central Bulgaria. The town is located at the southern foothills of the Sredna Gora mountain range facing the Upper Thracian Plain.
Hisar means 'fort, castle' in Arabic. The word was adopted in Turkish.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hisarya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.