Plevna


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Plev·en

(plĕv′ən, -ĕn) or Plev·na (-nə, -nä)
A city of northern Bulgaria northeast of Sofia. Settled by Thracians, it was ruled by Turkey from the 1400s to the 1800s.
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Noun 1. [画像:Plevna - the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days]Plevna - the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days
Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria - a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe
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After a rally and a concert on Sakharov Avenue, the protesters held an unauthorized rally gathering in Maroseika Street, Lubyansky Passage and near the Monument to the Heroes of Plevna. Traffic in Maroseika Street was blocked due to that.
More recently, again as at Sevastopol, (12) as at Plevna (13) and at the Congress of Berlin, we hear idle and noxious speeches about Russia's extraordinary might, about how all she has to do is speak and all will be done in our way, that the whole world is waiting with trepidation what Russia will say and do.
Synopsis: Sir Charles 'Plevna' Ryan (1853-1926) was a Melbourne surgeon who worked for the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War.
It was built around 1877 and forms part of two pairs of semis - 'Plevna Villas' - designed by architects Young & MacKenzie.
Malta from [euro]231pp: Make time for seven nights in Sliema, staying B&B at three-star Plevna Hotel.
This ceremony was followed by a Te Deum at the Cathedral, in the presence of the Russian and Bulgarian military delegates in order to celebrate the 35 th anniversary since Plevna's conquest.
The first time Joyce alluded to Romania was in Ulysses, where Plevna was mentioned four times: 4.63, 15.1529, 17.1425, 18.690.
Bibescu was raised mainly by men: her father, who showed love and devotion and took care of her intellectual formation, her uncle Jacques Lahovari, great hero of Plevna Battle and her maternal grandfather Alexandre Mavrocordat--all three of them cherished her precocious mental development and her charisma.
During the Siege of Plevna (July-September 1877) outnumbered Turkish forces defending Plevna were able to repulse attacks by the Imperial Russian army, in part, with the intelligent use of Winchester lever-action repeating rifles.
During the Russo-Turkish war he served as chief physician of a Cossack regiment near Plevna, and so distinguished himself by his work that Alexander II awarded him the second rank of the Order of Saint Stanislas [21].

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