Pleven
/ˈpleven/- an industrial town in northern Bulgaria, north-east of Sofia; pop. 112,372 (2008). An important fortress town and trading centre of the Ottoman Empire, it was taken from the Turks by the Russians in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, after a siege of 143 days.普列文（保加利亚北部工业城镇, 位于索非亚东北, 2008年人口112,372; 奥斯曼帝国的要塞城镇和贸易中心, 1877年俄土战争中被包围143天之后俄罗斯人从土耳其人手中夺取了该城镇）。