Vidin is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria.
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10 Facts About Vidin
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Vidin is the westernmost important Bulgarian Danube port and is situated on one of the southernmost sections of the river.
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Vidin emerged at the place of an old Celtic settlement known as Dunonia.
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In 1003 Vidin was seized by Basil II after an eight-month siege because of the betrayal of the local bishop.
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In 1859 the English traveler Samuel Baker happened to visit Vidin and spotted the 14-year old Florence Barbara Maria von Sass from Transylvania being sold into slavery, by some accounts destined to be owned by the Pasha of Vidin.
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Vidin has a humid subtropical climate close to a temperate continental climate, from which it is shifting further and further away due to global warming.
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Vidin is the 20th town by population in Bulgaria, but serious demographic problems have been experienced in the area during the last two decades.
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Vidin maintains two well-preserved medieval fortresses, Baba Vida and Kaleto, as well as many old Orthodox churches such as St Pantaleimon, St Petka, and St Dimitar, the Vidin Synagogue, the Osman Pazvantoglu Mosque and library, the late 18th-century Turkish ruler of north-western Bulgaria, the Krastata Kazarma of 1798, and a number of old Renaissance buildings.
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The Vidin Synagogue built in 1894 was in 2021 a shell of its former self; plans are made to turn it into an interfaith cultural center; the Jews of Vidin number about a dozen.
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