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3 unusual facts about Pleven


Czechoslovakia national under-21 football team

First game = U-23: Bulgaria 2-1 Czechoslovakia
Pleven, November 15, 1967
U-21: Czechoslovakia 0-0 Scotland
Plzeň, October 12, 1976
Last International
U-23: Czechoslovakia 1-1 Portugal
Teplice, November 12, 1975

Plevna, Montana

Bulgarian railroad workers named the town after the city of Pleven in Bulgaria.

Portugal Olympic football team

The playoff result was 2–1 (0–0 in the first leg in Porto and 2–1 in Pleven) for the Bulgarians.


Anastasia Dimitrova

By 1845, the Pleven school was visited by 90 girls from Pleven, Lovech, Troyan, Tarnovo, Vratsa and other cities.

Dimitrova was born in Pleven on 12 May 1815 to poor Bulgarian parents: her mother was a servant in Agapius, the bishop of Vratsa's home.

Circassian diaspora

However, one of the last descendants of this family, Mihail Christodulo Cerchez, was a Romanian national hero in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 (Osman Paşa, the Turkish commander of the Pleven garrison, who was an Adyge himself, surrendered his sword to Cerchez at the end of the siege).

Diliana Popova

Born in Gulyantsi, she lived there until grade 8 when she relocated to Pleven.

Gheorghe Manu

As the Romanian War of Independence began in 1877, General Manu was the commander of the 4th division, in charge with defending Romania in Oltenița, Corabia, Bechet, Islaz and Turnu Măgurele, but following the offensive, his division took part in the campaign on the plains of Bulgaria, in Pleven and Vidin.

Northwestern Bulgarian dialects

The range of the dialects includes most of northwestern Bulgaria, to the west of the line between Nikopol, Pleven and Mezdra and to the north of the line between Vratsa and Belogradchik.

Plevna Chapel

It was opened on a square outside the Ilyinka Gate of the Walled City in Moscow on the 10th anniversary of the taking of Pleven (1887), in the presence of Field Marshal Nikolai Nikolayevich.

Skobelev

Skobelev Park, a museum park in the vicinity of Pleven, Bulgaria

The Turkish Gambit

Upon arrival, Varvara is reunited with Pyotr, and Fandorin delivers his message: the Turkish army is advancing towards the Bulgarian town of Plevna, which sits on the road to Sofia and must be taken so the Russian army can easily advance through Bulgaria and into Turkey.

Varna railway station

Today, it is a key railway junction with three lines to Sofia and separate lines to Karnobat, Rousse, Plovdiv, Pleven, Shumen, Dobrich, etc.

Vratsa Province

The distance to the major cities is as follows: Vratsa - Varna 414 km, Vratsa - Plovdiv 217 km; Vratsa - Pleven 108 km; Vratsa - Burgas 416 km.


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