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Pleven

Pleven

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A city in northern Bulgaria known for a historic siege during the 1877–78 Russo-Turkish War
  • proper noun
: Pleven
  • The siege of Pleven was a pivotal moment in the history of Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War.

Examples

  • To me, the ending indicated a Breton name (as in Le Hen, Goulven, Pleven, Le Pen, and many others), so I assumed that Cohen belonged in the same company.

    Blog text (4)

  • In 1950, the European Defense Community was proposed by the French Prime Minister Rene Pleven, and the six founding member states of the European Coal and Steel Community seemed to embark in that direction, signing the Paris Treaty of 1952.

    Academic text (2018)

  • The city of Pleven is known for its historical significance during the Russo-Turkish War.

  • In my travels, I visited Pleven, where I discovered its fascinating past related to the 1877-78 conflict.

Synonyms

Plevna
vsPleven
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A town in northern Bulgaria known for the 1877 siege in the war between Russia and Turkey

is the modern standard place name rather than the older historic variant

Surface Forms

Pleven main

Etymology

Pleven is the English form of the Bulgarian name Плевен. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the old local root plev, which people connect to 'straw' or 'chaff' because the area was once farmland, and so Pleven became the name of the city in northern Bulgaria known for its 1877–78 siege.