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NIKOPOLI

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 692 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NEW-NUM
NIKOPOLI , or Nrcororas (Turkish, Nighebolu or Nebul), the
chief
  town of a sub-prefecture in the
district
  of Plevna (Pleven), Bulgaria. Pop. (1908) 5236, including 3339. Turks and 1615 Bulgarians. Nikopoli is picturesquely situated on the
south
  bank of the Danube, where it receives the Osem. Until the creation of a new port at Somovit, in the neighbourhood, Nikopoli served as an outlet for the
trade
  of Plevna, Lovtcha and other towns in the interior, the
principal
  export being cereals. The
chief
 
industries
  are tanning and fishing. As a military post the town has for centuries been important. A ruined castle still dominates the place, and fortifications stretch down to the river.
Nikopoli occupies the site of the ancient Asamus, but by some medieval confusion bears the name of Nicopolis ad Istrum, which was founded by Trajan several miles down the river, at the inflow of the Iatrus or Yantra, at the spot still called Nikup. The following are the chief points in the modern history of the place: capture of the fortress by
Sigismund
  of
Hungary
  in 1392 and 1395; defeat of
Sigismund
  and his hosts in 1396 by Bayezid I.; siege of the town by King Ladislaus I. of
Hungary
  in 1444; defeat of the Turks by Bathori in 1595 and by Michael of Walachia in 1598; capture of the town by Pasvan-oglu in 1797; occupation of the fortress by the Russians under Kamensky in 181o; destruction of the Turkish flotilla and storming of the Turkish camp by Govarov in 1829; capture and burning of the town by the Russians under
KrUdener
  on the 15th of June 1877.


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