Plevna, Missouri

Plevna is an unincorporated community in southeastern Knox County, Missouri, United States. It is located about eighteen miles southeast of Edina on Route 15. According to author and name historian Robert Ramsay, the community was probably founded and named by John "Plevna" Naylor in 1877, and is named after Plevna, Bulgaria,^[1]^[2] site of a Russian victory at the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War.

References

↑ Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names 2nd edition. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1973. ISBN 0-8262-0586-0.
↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 182.

Municipalities and communities of Knox County, Missouri, United States

County seat: Edina

Cities	Baring Edina Hurdland Knox City

Villages	Newark Novelty

CDP	Plevna

Unincorporated community	Colony

Coordinates: 39°58′25″N 92°05′11″W / 39.97361°N 92.08639°W / 39.97361; -92.08639

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