pleven

English Thesaurus

1. the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days (noun.act)

instance hypernym	:	beleaguering, besieging, military blockade, siege,
definition	:	the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack (noun.act)

domain region	:	bulgaria, republic of bulgaria,
definition	:	a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe (noun.location)