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Plevna

noun
1.
The town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days.  Synonym: Pleven.





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"Plevna" Quotes from Famous Books



... to play a very large part in the Turkish administration. On the march to Plevna, for example, I saw two high military dignitaries chastised in the presence of their fellow-officers. What they had done or failed to do I did not know, but I arrived upon the scene just in time to see each man step out in turn, fold his arms and with bent head submit himself ...
— Recollections • David Christie Murray


Words linked to "Plevna" :   Bulgaria, military blockade, Pleven, beleaguering, siege, Republic of Bulgaria, besieging


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