Kozloduy
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Kozloduy (Bulgarian: Козлодуй) is a town of 13,871 inhabitants in northwestern Bulgaria, located in Vratsa Province, on the river Danube. The city was liberated from Ottoman rule on 23 November 1877 by the Imperial Russian Army. Kozloduy is best known for the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant, Bulgaria's only nuclear power plant, that is situated nearby, as well as the second largest Bulgarian Danubian island, Kozloduy Island. The city is also famous for the "Radetzky" ship - the boat which the poet-revolutioner Hristo Botev used to cross the Danube river and along with his 200 people make last efforts to gather an army.
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