 The German name of the town, "Veldes", was either borrowed from Old Slovene "*Beldъ" before AD 800 or is derived from the same pre-Slavic source as the Slovene name.Bled is located on the southern foot of the Karawanks mountain range near the border with Austria, about northwest of the state capital Ljubljana.South of Lake Bled are the densely forested Pokljuka and Jelovica plateaus, the easternmost parts of the Julian Alps.