Nicopolis, a town of Bulgaria, with 4652 inhabitants, is on the Danube, 56 miles W. of Rustchuk. The Berlin Congress of 1878 provided for the demolition of the fortifications. Here the Hungarians were defeated by the Sultan Bajazet in 1396; and the place has been more than once taken by the Russians (1810, 1827, 1877).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 497
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