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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)

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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

The following day the Cabinet approved a draft bill for what Justice Minister Ren� Pleven called the control of "certain new forms of delinquency."

From Time Magazine Archive

Lean, hardheaded Finance Minister Ren� Pleven insisted that a small, tight, mechanized force was all that was necessary: in tomorrow's atomic war a massive array of manpower would be silly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Except for the small domestic output, crude oil for the Pleven refinery is moved by rail from Black Sea ports.

From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Baluyut, Violeta D.