Pleven

Pleven is a city in , 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.
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  • Type: City with 112,000 residents
  • Description: city in Pleven municipality, Pleven oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Plevna” and “Plyeven”
  • Postal code: 5800

Places of Interest

Highlights include Panorama and Regional Museum of History.

Museum
Photo: Spiritia, Public domain.
Pleven Epopee 1877, more commonly known as Pleven , is a located in Pleven, , that depicts the events of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877–78, specifically the five-month Siege of Plevna which made the city internationally famous and which contributed to the Liberation of Bulgaria after five centuries of Ottoman rule.

Museum
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The Pleven Regional Historical Museum, founded in 1953, is one of the largest museums in . The museum is situated in a two-story edifice near the centre of Pleven that is a monument of culture of national importance and has an area of 7,000 m2.

Pitch
Stadion Pleven is a multi-purpose stadium in Pleven, . It is currently used mostly for football matches as the home venue of the Spartak Pleven. The stadium was built in 1952 and seats 3,000 people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bukovluk.

Village
Bukovlak is a village in Bulgaria. It is situated in Pleven municipality, .

Pleven

Latitude
43.409° or 43° 24′ 33″ north
Longitude
24.618° or 24° 37′ 5″ east
Population
112,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BG PVN
Open location code
8GM6CJ59+J6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 31058183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
728203
Wiki­data ID
Q165420
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Pleven” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Pleven”
  • Albanian: “Pleven”
  • Amharic: “ፕሌቬን”
  • Arabic: “بلفن”
  • Armenian: “Պլեվեն”
  • Armenian: “Պլևեն”
  • Armenian: “Պլևնա”
  • Asturian: “Pleven”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pleven”
  • Basque: “Pleven”
  • Belarusian: “Плевен”
  • Belarusian: “Плевэн”
  • Belarusian: “Плеўна”
  • Bengali: “প্লেভেন”
  • Breton: “Pleven”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.ПЛЕВЕН”
  • Bulgarian: “Плевен”
  • Catalan: “Pleven”
  • Cebuano: “Pleven (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
  • Cebuano: “Pleven”
  • Central Kurdish: “پلێڤێن”
  • Chechen: “Плевен”
  • Chinese: “普列文”
  • Church Slavic: “Плѣвьнъ”
  • Croatian: “Pleven”
  • Czech: “Pleven”
  • Czech: “Plevno”
  • Danish: “Pleven”
  • Danish: “Plevna”
  • Dutch: “Pleven”
  • Esperanto: “Pleven”
  • Estonian: “Pleven”
  • Finnish: “Pleven”
  • Finnish: “Plevna”
  • French: “Nicolaevo”
  • French: “Pleven”
  • Galician: “Pleven”
  • Georgian: “პლევანი”
  • Georgian: “პლევენი”
  • German: “Pleven”
  • German: “Plewen”
  • German: “Plewna”
  • Greek: “Πλέβεν”
  • Greek: “Πλέβνα”
  • Greek: “Πλεύνα”
  • Gujarati: “પ્લેવેન”
  • Hausa: “Pleven”
  • Hebrew: “פלבן”
  • Hindi: “प्लेवेन”
  • Hungarian: “Pleven”
  • Ido: “Pleven”
  • Indonesian: “Pleven”
  • Irish: “Pleven”
  • Italian: “Pleven”
  • Japanese: “プレヴェン”
  • Javanese: “Pleven”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ಲೆವೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Pleven”
  • Kazakh: “Плевен”
  • Kazakh: “پلەۆەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Плевен”
  • Korean: “플레벤”
  • Latvian: “Plevena”
  • Lithuanian: “Pleven”
  • Lithuanian: “Plevenas”
  • Lithuanian: “Plevna”
  • Lombard: “Pleven”
  • Luxembourgish: “Plewen”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Plevna”
  • Macedonian: “Плевен”
  • Malay: “Pleven”
  • Marathi: “प्लीव्हन”
  • Moksha: “Плэвэн”
  • Mongolian: “Плевен”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plewen (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Plewen”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pleven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pleven”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Plevna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Плевен”
  • Norwegian: “Pleven”
  • Oromo: “Pleven”
  • Ossetian: “Плевен”
  • Ossetian: “Плевнæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪ੍ਲੇਵੇਨ”
  • Persian: “پلون (بلغارستان)”
  • Persian: “پلون”
  • Piemontese: “Pleven”
  • Polish: “Pleven”
  • Polish: “Plewen”
  • Portuguese: “Pleven”
  • Pushto: “پلوین”
  • Romanian: “Pleven”
  • Romanian: “Plevna”
  • Russian: “Плевен”
  • Russian: “Плевна”
  • Scots: “Pleven”
  • Serbian: “Pleven”
  • Serbian: “Плевен”
  • Serbian: “Плевна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pleven”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලෙවෙන්, බල්ගේරියාව”
  • Sinhala: “ප්ලේව්න්”
  • Slovak: “Pleven”
  • Slovenian: “Pleven”
  • Somali: “Pleven”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پلون”
  • Spanish: “Pleven”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵍⵉⴼⵏ”
  • Swahili: “Pleven”
  • Swedish: “Pleven”
  • Swedish: “Plevna”
  • Swedish: “Plewna”
  • Tachelhit: “Plivn”
  • Tajik: “Плевен”
  • Tamil: “பிலிவெண்”
  • Tatar: “Плевен”
  • Telugu: “ప్లెవెన్”
  • Thai: “เปลเวน”
  • Thai: “พลีเวน”
  • Turkish: “Plevne”
  • Turkmen: “Plewen”
  • Ukrainian: “Плевен”
  • Ukrainian: “Плевна”
  • Urdu: “پلیوین”
  • Uzbek: “Pleven (Bolgariya)”
  • Uzbek: “Pleven”
  • Venetian: “Pleven”
  • Veps: “Pleven”
  • Vietnamese: “Pleven”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pleven”
  • Volapük: “Pleven”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pleven”
  • Welsh: “Pleven”
  • Western Panjabi: “پلیوین”
  • Wu Chinese: “普列文”
  • Yue Chinese: “普列文”
  • “Plevna”

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