Shipka, a pass in the Balkans, on the side next Roumelia, 50 miles NE. of Philippopolis and 87 miles SW. of Rustchuk on the Danube, was stoutly held by the Russians, in an entrenched camp, against the desperate assaults of Suleyman Pasha (21st to 26th August and 9th to 17th September) in the war of 1877.
Shipka
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 411
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