- Bistritsa
Bistritsa or Bistrica (Бистрица, from Bulgarian бистър and ultimately
Proto-Slavic *-bystr, meaning "clear, lucid, limpid") may refer to:*three villages in
Bulgaria :
**Bistritsa, Blagoevgrad Province
**Bistritsa, Kyustendil Province
**Bistritsa, Sofia
*a high number of rivers:
**the South Slavic name of theHaliacmon river inGreece
**Vitoshka Bistritsa running throughPancharevo
**Sandanska Bistritsa running throughSandanski inBlagoevgrad Province
**Pirinska Bistritsa
**Blagoevgradska Bistritsa
**Chepinska Bistritsa
**Sovolyanska Bistritsa
**Bistritsa River (Rhodope Mountains)
**Dupnishka Bistritsa
**Prizrenska Bistritsa , a river in Kosovo
*Tsarska Bistritsa , a former royal palace inRila
*several former villages in Bulgaria:
**one formerly known as "Tursko selo" until 1878 and merged withDolno selo ,Kyustendil Province in 1959
**one merged withRazliv ,Sofia Province in 1965
*an alternative name for the village ofBistrilitsa ,Montana Province ee also
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Bistrica for the Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Slovenian variant
*Bistritz for the German variant
*Bistriţa (disambiguation) for the Romanian variant
*Bystrica for the Slovak variant
*Bystrzyca for the Polish variant
*Feistritz (Germanised word)
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