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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Bulgaria northeast of Sofia. Settled by Thracians, it was ruled by Turkey from the 1400s to the 1800s.
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- proper noun a
city innorthern Bulgaria
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- noun the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days
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And, to understand this, one must go back to 1950 when the "father of Europe", Jean Monnet, launched what became known as the Pleven Plan for a European Defence Community, held together by a European Political Community.
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Premier Pleven recommended the creation of a European ministry of defense (known as the Pleven Plan) rather than the rearmament of (West) Germany.
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