Vidin

[ vee-din ]

noun

1. a city in NW Bulgaria, on the Danube River.

Example Sentences

As an orphan she was sold into the Ottoman slave trade, and in 1859 found herself on the auction block in Vidin, in present-day Bulgaria.

From The Guardian

Veliko Tarnovo is almost 200 miles farther from his village than Vidin.

From Washington Post

In the port of Calafat, across the Danube from the Bulgarian port of Vidin, border guards use sniffer dogs and equipment which can detect heartbeats to search for stowaways.

From Seattle Times

There is little sign of them here in the northwestern corner of Bulgaria, near the city of Vidin.

From BBC

In Sofia, many taxis from Lion’s Bridge drive northwest to Vidin, Bulgaria’s smuggling capital, where gangs move up to 500 migrants nightly across the Timok river into Serbia, Bulgarian officials say.

From Wall Street Journal