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Pleven or Plevna , city (1993 pop. 130,354), N Bulgaria. A commercial center for a fertile agricultural region, it has food-processing industries and manufactures cotton textiles, cement, and wood and rubber goods. An old Thracian settlement, Pleven was later occupied by the Romans. It became a trade center under Turkish rule (15th-19th cent.). The city is famous for its defense by the Turks against Russian and Romanian troops in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. Its fall (1877) to the Russians after four months of fighting caused the Turks to demand an armistice.

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Pleven, Bulgaria Storgosia, Plewna, Kajluka Originally with a Thracian name, it was then given a Slav name before adopting its present one in 1270. The Pleva River, on which it lies, is the source of the name. This comes from a Slavonic root word for ‘to swim’ or ‘to float’.

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