Nikopol (Bulgaria)
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 Bulgaria
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| Oblast : | Pleven | ||
| Residents : | 2994 (December 31, 2016) | ||
| Coordinates : | 43 ° 42 ' N , 24 ° 54' E | ||
| Height : | 179 m | ||
| Postal code : | 5940 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+359) 06541 | ||
| License plate : | EH | ||
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| Mayor : | Lyuben Lakow | ||
| Website : | www.nikopolbg.com | ||
Nikopol [ niˈkɔpoɫ ] (in the Middle Ages Nikopolis , in Latin form Nicopolis ) is a city on the lower Danube in northern Bulgaria .
history
Bronze Age remains have been discovered in the area of the Kaleto hill (around 1200 BC).
During the time of the Roman Empire , the settlement belonged to the province of Moesia . After the division of the Roman Empire, the city remained under the Byzantine Empire in the 4th century AD .
The city was founded in 629 by the Byzantine emperor Herakleios after his victory over Chosrau II in the last Roman-Persian war . A distinction is made between the medieval Nicopolis in Nicopolis minor (the small Nicopolis) and Nicopolis maior (the great Nicopolis). Little Nicopolis was a settlement on the other side of the Danube (on the northern bank) and was therefore already on Wallachian soil, today's Romania . Nicopolis maior (on the southern bank), on the other hand, was a mighty fortress with stable masonry and fortified towers and was strategically located on a slope that rose immediately south of the Danube.
In 1059 the city was named Nicopolis ( City of Victory ).
In 1392 the fortress Nikopol was taken by Sigismund of Hungary . Sigismund and his hosts were defeated by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in 1396 .
After Tarnowo , the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1187–1393), Nikopol was the second residence of the Bulgarian tsars in the 14th century. Here Ivan Schischman made his last resistance against the Ottoman conquerors. In the battle of Nicopolis on September 25, 1396, a Christian crusader army met the Ottomans under Bayezid I and was defeated by them.
The city was besieged several times by Hungarian and Wallachian princes (1444, 1595, 1598). In 1797 it was taken by Pasha Osman Pazvantoğlu von Vidin .
During the period of Ottoman rule, the city was in the 15th-17th centuries. Century one of the largest military-administrative centers, with a strong fortress, as well as an economic, spiritual and political center. The shrine of Ali Kach Baba on a hill south of the city commemorates this time. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city began to decline and lost its status as a military and political center.
In the 7th Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) , the Russians under Nikolai Kamenski occupied the fortress in 1810. In 1829 the Turkish fleet was destroyed by the Russians and the Turkish military camp was stormed.
In the Battle of Nikopol (1877) , the city was captured and destroyed by the Russians on June 15, 1877.
The city has given its name to Nikopol Point , a headland on Livingston Island in Antarctica , since 2005 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Bojan Ikonomov (1900–1973), composer
