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Pleven

American  
[plev-en] / ˈplɛv ɛn /
Also Plevna

noun

  1. a city in N Bulgaria: siege of 143 days 1877.


Pleven British  
/ ˈplɛvna, ˈplɛvɛn /

noun

  1. a town in N Bulgaria: taken by Russia from the Turks in 1877 after a siege of 143 days. Pop: 102 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Possible toxicity from folic acid is the last thing on the mind of Katya Kovacheva, of the Medical University, Pleven, in Bulgaria, who runs the country’s only birth defects registry.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 26, 2021

Liam Pleven in The Wall Street Journal. @morningmoneyben: Remember when everyone freaked about gas prices?

From Washington Post • May 8, 2012

Pleven had had the courage to make the issue France's new austerity program : a 200-billion-franc tax increase, a 40% cut in dollar imports.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Natural gas fields have been discovered near Vratsa and in the area of Lovech, south of Pleven.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.

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