NIKOPOL, Town, Bulgaria

nēkôˈpôl, town (1993 pop. 4,897), N Bulgaria, a port on the Danube River bordering Romania. Farming, viticulture, and fishing are the chief occupations. Founded in 629 by Byzantine emperor Heraclius, Nikopol (then Nicopolis) became a flourishing trade and cultural center of the second Bulgarian kingdom. In 1396 at Nikopol the Ottoman Turks under Beyazid I defeated an army of crusaders led by King Sigismund of Hungary (later Emperor Sigismund). The Turkish victory removed the last serious obstacle to a Turkish advance on Christian Europe. However, when Timur defeated Beyazid (1402), Europe gained a respite. The Turks strongly fortified Nikopol, which was strategically important during the Russo-Turkish wars (18th–19th cent.), but the city later declined.

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A History of Bulgaria, 1393-1885
Book by Mercia MacDermott; Allen & Unwin, 1962
Subjects: Bulgaria--History--1393-1878
...formed See of Nikopol in 1648, was...prepared the first Bulgarian printed book...is true, in Bulgaria itself, but in the Rumanian town of Targoviste...Catholic Bishop of Nikopol in 1648. In 1714 the first Bulgarian printed book...
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Bulgaria in Transition: Politics, Economics, Society, and Culture after Communism
Book by John D. Bell; Westview Press, 1998
Subjects: Bulgaria--Civilization, Bulgaria--Economic Policy--1989-, Bulgaria--Ethnic Relations, Bulgaria--Foreign Relations, Bulgaria--Politics And Government--1990-, Post-Communism--Bulgaria
...About the first protest organizations and initiatives in Bulgaria, see the recollections of their activists, presented in Izbor...grad Ruse Committee for the Ecological Protection of the Town Ruse formed on March 8 in Sofia following demonstrations against...
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Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria
Book by Maria N. Todorova; Central European University Press, 2006
Subjects: Bulgaria--Population, Bulgaria--Social Life And Customs, Family Demography--Bulgaria
...Moldavian mahalle of the town, while the lists of the numerous Bulgarian, Turkish and Tatar...quarters in the same town as the Bulgarians. On the other hand...involvement of Bulgarian women in economic...character of the town economies. These...
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Bulgarian Urban Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Book by Raina Gavrilova; Susquehanna University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bulgaria--History--1762-1878, Bulgaria--History--1878-1944, Bulgaria--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Bulgaria--Intellectual Life--19th Century, City And Town Life--Bulgaria, Enlightenment--Bulgaria, Renaissance--Bulgaria, Urbanization--Bulgaria
...Istanbul).2 Soon thereafter the first town-like settlements of the Thracians, principally...gradual settlement of Slavs and Proto-Bulgarians, which in 681 A.D. established an early...dozen of them, including Thrnovo, Vidin, Nikopol, Varna, DristAr (Silistra), Pleven, Lovech...
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Everyman's Concise Encyclopaedia of Russia
Book by S. V. Utechin; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1961
Subjects: Soviet Union--Dictionaries And Encyclopedias
...WORKERS SETTLEMENTS A Abakan, town on the Yenisey in southern Siberia, administrative...1707, was later a village and became a town in 1931. Abakumov, Viktor Semenovich...of Red Professorship q.v. . Achinsk, town in the Krasnoyarsk Kray central Siberia...
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The World Tonight: Flood Nightmare in the Balkans; EMERGENCY: Thousands of People Left Homeless by Record River Levels
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), April 17, 2006
Subjects: Floods, Homeless persons
...Some 40 per cent of the nearby Bulgarian port city of Nikopol was under water, threatening to...earlier in the week. In the eastern town of Smederevo, authorities drafted...fertile farmland surrounding the town were flooded. DEEP TROUBLE... Two...


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Nikopol , Town, Bulgaria
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NIKOPOL , town, Bulgaria neko pol, town (1993 pop. 4,897), N Bulgaria, a port on the Danube...emperor Heraclius, Nikopol (then Nicopolis) became...center of the second Bulgarian kingdom. In 1396 at Nikopol the Ottoman Turks under...


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