Pleven
Pleven Province is a province located in central northern Bulgaria, bordering the Danube river, Romania and the Bulgarian provinces of Vratsa, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: oblast of Bulgaria with 120,000 residents
- Description: oblast of Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Gradska Obshtina Pleven”, “Obshtina Pleven”, “Pleven oblast”, “Pleven province”, “Pleven Province”, and “Plevenska Obshtina”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grivitsa.
Grivitsa
Aerodrome
Grivitsa Airfield is a public use airfield located 1 nm east of Grivitsa, Pleven, Bulgaria.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pleven and Grivitsa.
Pleven
Photo: Atsirlin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pleven is a city in North Bulgaria, a major economic and industrial hub. The 1877 Siege of Pleven was one of the key battles of Bulgaria's Liberation War, and it's commemorated in various ways throughout the city, most notably by the Pleven Panorama.
Grivitsa
Village
Grivitsa is a village in Pleven Municipality, Pleven Province, central northern Bulgaria. It is primarily known as the site of one of the key engagements in the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878.
Tuchenitsa
Village
Photo: Valsiliv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tuchenitsa is a village, which is situated 6 km south of Pleven.
Pleven
- Location: Pleven, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Pleven” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca Pleven”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة بلفن”
- Armenian: “Պլևենի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Պլևնայի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Pleven”
- Basque: “Pleven probintzia”
- Belarusian: “Плевенская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Плевэнская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “প্লেভেন প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Oblast Pleven”
- Breton: “Oblast Pleven”
- Breton: “Pleven”
- Breton: “Proviñs Pleven”
- Bulgarian: “Областна администрация - Плевен”
- Bulgarian: “Община Плевен”
- Bulgarian: “Плевен (област)”
- Bulgarian: “Плевен”
- Bulgarian: “Плевенска област”
- Bulgarian: “Плевенско”
- Catalan: “província de Pleven”
- Catalan: “Província de Pleven”
- Cebuano: “Oblast Pleven”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای پلێڤێن”
- Chechen: “Плевенан область”
- Chinese: “Pleven Chiu”
- Chinese: “普列文州”
- Chuvash: “Плевен облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Pleven vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Oblast Pleven”
- Czech: “Plevenská oblast”
- Danish: “Pleven (provins)”
- Danish: “Pleven”
- Dutch: “Pleven”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Pleven”
- Estonian: “Pleveni piirkond”
- Finnish: “Pleven”
- Finnish: “Plevenin alue”
- Finnish: “Plevnan alue”
- French: “Oblast de Pleven”
- French: “Pleven”
- Galician: “Pleven”
- Georgian: “პლევანი (ოლქი)”
- Georgian: “პლევანი (პროვინცია)”
- Georgian: “პლევენი (ოლქი)”
- Georgian: “პლევენის ოლქი”
- German: “BG-15”
- German: “Oblast Plewen”
- German: “Pleven”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Πλέβεν”
- Greek: “Πλέβεν”
- Gujarati: “પ્લેવેન પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פלבן”
- Hebrew: “פלבן”
- Hindi: “प्लेवेन प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Pleven megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi pleven”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Pleven”
- Irish: “Cúige Pleven”
- Italian: “distretto di Pleven”
- Italian: “Distretto di Pleven”
- Italian: “Pleven (regione)”
- Japanese: “プレヴェン州”
- Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೆವೆನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “플레벤주”
- Latin: “Plevenum (provincia)”
- Latin: “Plevenum”
- Latvian: “Plevenas apgabals”
- Lithuanian: “Pleveno sritis”
- Lombard: “Distret de Pleven”
- Luxembourgish: “Plewen”
- Macedonian: “Плевен”
- Macedonian: “Плевенска област”
- Malay: “Pleven Province”
- Marathi: “प्लेव्हें प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pleven Chiu”
- Mongolian: “Плевен аймаг”
- Northern Frisian: “Plewen”
- Northern Luri: “پلون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pleven oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Pleven”
- Norwegian: “Pleven oblast”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pleven”
- Ossetian: “Плевены облæст”
- Persian: “استان پلون”
- Persian: “استان پلِون”
- Polish: “Obwód Plewen”
- Portuguese: “Pleven (distrito)”
- Portuguese: “Pleven (província)”
- Portuguese: “Pleven”
- Romanian: “Pleven”
- Romanian: “Plevna”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Plevna”
- Russian: “Плевенская область”
- Russian: “Плевенский округ”
- Scots: “Pleven Province”
- Serbian: “Област Плевен”
- Serbian: “Плевенска област”
- Sinhala: “ප්ලෙවෙන් පළාත, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Sinhala: “ප්ලෙවෙන් පළාත”
- Slovak: “Pleven”
- Slovak: “Plevenská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “oblast Pleven”
- Slovenian: “Oblast Pleven”
- South Azerbaijani: “پلون اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Pleven”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Pleven”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Pleven”
- Spanish: “Pleven”
- Spanish: “Provincia de pleven”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Pleven”
- Swedish: “Pleven (region)”
- Swedish: “Pleven”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Плевен”
- Tamil: “ப்லெவேன் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “ప్లెవెన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “ప్లెవెన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดพลีเวน”
- Turkish: “Pleven ili”
- Turkish: “Plevne ili”
- Turkish: “Plevne İli”
- Turkish: “Plevne”
- Ukrainian: “Плевенська область”
- Urdu: “پلیوین صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Pleven (tỉnh)”
- Vietnamese: “Pleven”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pleven”
- Welsh: “Talaith Pleven”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ پلیوین”
- Wu Chinese: “普列文州”
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