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Shipka may refer to:
- Shipka (town), in Bulgaria
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Shipka Pass, in Bulgaria
- Battle of Shipka Pass, during the Russo-Turkish war of 1877–78
- "The volunteers at Shipka", a poem by Ivan Vazov, part of Epic of the Forgotten
- Shipka (stadium), in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
- Shipka Saddle, in the Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica.
- Shipka Valley, in the Tangra Mountains
- Arsenal Shipka, a kind of a submachine gun, produced in Bulgaria
- 2530 Shipka, the name of an asteroid, an abandoned probe target
- Kiernan Shipka, an actress known for her role on the television series Mad Men
- Shipka, a Russian military base near Mukachevo, Ukraine
Shipka is a multi-use stadium in Asenovgrad, Bulgaria. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of F.C. Asenovets. The stadium holds 3,852 people.
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Shipka (, " Rosa canina") is a town in central Bulgaria, part of Kazanlak Municipality, Stara Zagora Province. It lies in the Central Balkan Mountains, at , 650 metres above sea level. As of 2005, Shipka has a population of 1,398 and the mayor is Stoyan Ivanov.
The town is known for being located near the historic Shipka Pass, the location of several key battles in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. Local sights include the Shipka Memorial (1934) on Stoletov Peak, the Buzludzha Monument, the Russian-style Shipka Memorial Church (1885–1902) and the recently discovered Thracian tomb Golyamata Kosmatka.
The population is overwhelmingly Eastern Orthodox and ethnically Bulgarian, with a notable minority of Karakachans (a Greek-speaking transhumant people of obscure origin).
Shipka is a small Russian military base that serves the Soviet-installed Dnepr radar and located near the city of Mukachevo (just outside a small village of Shenborn) in Ukraine. Since 2009 the base was supposedly closed down by the Russian authorities who refused to continue paying for land-lease.