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as depicted by a 15th-century Western Europe an artist]] Nikopol () is a town in northern Bulgaria , part of Pleven Province , on the right bank of the Danube river, 4 km downstream from the mouth of the Osam river. It spreads at the foot of steep chalk cliffs along the Danube and up a narrow valley. In Roman Times , it was a village in the province of Moesia , first mentioned in 169. After the decline of the Roman Empire , the town turned out to be located at the northern border of the Byzantine Empire . In 1059, it was named ''Nikopolis'', Greek for "City of Victory". In one of the last stands of the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Shishman , the town was conquered by the Ottomans in 1393. It was the site of the Battle Of Nicopolis , both the largest and last large-scale Crusade of the Middle Ages , in 1396. Under Ottoman Rule , Nikopol developed into an important military and administrative centre, with a strong fortress and a flourishing economic, spiritual and political life, until it went into a decline during the 17th and 18th centuries. Nikopol was liberated by the Russians in the Battle Of Nikopol in 1877. It presently has a population of 4,976. It is the seat of the Nikopol municipality and provides services to the local villages. A landing for a car ferry is under construction which will connect the town with Turnu Măgurele on the opposite side of the Danube in Romania . Nikopol was partially flooded by the Danube during the 2006 European Floods . SISTER CITY Shakhty , Russia EXTERNAL LINKS
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