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Gülümser Öney
Gülümser Öney, originally Yılmaz (born 1956) is a Bulgarian-born Turkish female chess player. She is Turkey's most successful chess player being the eleven times national champion, including seven times consecutively from 1973. Chess career Gülümser was born in Pleven, Bulgaria to Turkish parents. Her father, Lütfi Yılmaz, was a teacher and chess player from whom she learned to play chess. She became Bulgarian youth champion and captain of her high school's chess club. Gülümser taught her brother Turhan and sister Gülsevil chess while they were still in primary school. The family moved to Turkey in 1972. With five years of chess experience, she took part the next year at a tournament for high school students organized by the Turkish daily ''Cumhuriyet'' in Istanbul. She completed the tournament unbeaten, which was attended by 186 youths including only six girls. Following her graduation from high school, she attended Istanbul Technical University, where she earned a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pleven, Bulgaria
Pleven ( ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest economic center in Northwestern Bulgaria. At the 2021 census its population was 89,823. Internationally known for the siege of Plevna of 1877, today it is a major economic centre of the Bulgarian Northwest and Central North and the third largest city of Northern Bulgaria after Varna and Ruse. Name The name comes from the Slavic word ''plevnya'' ("barn") or from ''plevel'', meaning "weed", sharing the same root, and the Slavic suffix ''-en''. Geography Pleven is in an agricultural region in the middle of the Danubian Plain, the historical region of Moesia, surrounded by low limestone hills, the Pleven Heights. The city's central location in Northern Bulgaria defines its importance as a big administrative, economic, political, cultural and transport centre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
