Vasil Levski established the first revolutionary committee in 1869, part of his national revolutionary network. The city (then mostly known as Plevna outside...

Encyclopædia Britannica lists it as Shumla, similar to the way it lists Pleven as Plevna. In Turkish, it is known as Şumnu. The first records of Shumen date back...

of the first ever telephone connection in Bulgaria, during the siege of Plevna of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78. It linked Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich...