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Noun: Pleven  ple-ven
  1. A city in Bulgaria; famously taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 day
    - Plevna

Type of: beleaguering, besieging, military blockade, siege

Encyclopedia: Pleven, Bulgaria