Widdin, or VIDIN, a town of Bulgaria, on the Danube, 20 miles from the Servian frontier. For centuries the 'Virgin Fortress' was a strong Turkish post, and was successfully held by the Turks in 1854 and 1878, as it was by the Bulgarians against the Servians in 1885. See Wm. V. Herbert, The Chronicles of a Virgin Fortress (1896). Pop. 15,400.
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