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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

Under Ike's prodding the French gave up some of their demands, the Germans began to warm to the Pleven plan.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There are twelve mediumwave radio transmitters: two are located in Pleven; two in Kurdzhali; two in Sofia; and one each in Plovdiv, Blagoevgrad, Varna, Shumen, Stara Zagora, and Stolnik.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.

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