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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 243 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SLIVEN , SLIvN0 or formerly SELIMNIA (Turk. Islimye), a See also:

town of See also:Bulgaria, in Eastern See also:Rumelia, at the See also:southern See also:foot of the See also:Balkan Mountains, 105 m. E.N.E. of See also:Philippopolis and near the southern entrance of the See also:defile known as the See also:Iron See also:Gate. Pop. (1906), 25,049. There are numerous mosques in the town, but the greater See also:part of the See also:Turkish See also:population emigrated after the Russo-Turkish See also:War of 1877-78. Sliven contains the See also:government factory, founded in 1834, for the manufacture of military clothing; it is the See also:chief centre in Bulgaria for the rough and See also:fine homespuns known as abet and shayak, and its See also:wine is locally celebrated. Extensive mulberry orchards.have been planted in connexion with the See also:silk See also:industry. Sliven, the Stlifanos of the See also:Byzantine writers, owed its former strategic importance to its position on one of the trans-Balkan highways to See also:Adrianople and the See also:south. In the See also:middle ages it was a subject of dispute between See also:Byzantium and Bulgaria. After its See also:capture by the See also:Turks (1388) it was one of the voinik towns which remained exempt from taxes and were allowed to elect their own See also:voivode; but these privileges were lost in the loth See also:century. In 1829 Sliven was occupied by the See also:Russian See also:army under Rudiger and See also:Gorchakov.

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