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Shumen (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 43 17 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 43.2833 decimal degrees |
| Long: 026 55 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 26.9167 decimal degrees |
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Note: The large town of Shumen lies in northeastern Bulgaria in a strategic point in a valley of foothills of the Shumen limestone plateau. It was first a Thracian then a Roman settlement. It was fortified during the First Bulgarian Empire in 927. . During the 15th to the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire ruled the town and used it as an important fortified place. It reverted to Bulgarian in the general liberation of Bulgaria in 1878-1879. Among its historic architectural works are the Tombu Mosque, dating from the mid-1700s, and two houses in which important historical characters once lived, the home where Hungarian revolutionary leader Lajos Kossuth lived during his exile in 1849, and the home of Vasil Kolarov, a Bulgarian revolutionary, whose name was borne by the town between 1950 and 1965. The modern town has a variety of industries, chief among them the processing of tobacco and the brewing of beer. The 2003 estimated population was 88,400. |
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| Shumen (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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| Šumen (C,V,Bulgarian,U,N)
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| Shumla (C,V)
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| שומן (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Kolarovgrad (H,V,Bulgarian,U,N)
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............ | after Bulgarian revolutionary Vasil Kalarov, name used 1950-1964 |
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Shumen (inhabited place) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was a Thracian settlement, modern town grew from a fortress founded in AD 927 |
| city (C) |
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| provincial capital (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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