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Arena Shumen
Arena Shumen () is an indoor arena located in Shumen, Bulgaria that opened on July 21, 2018. It has a seating capacity of 1,494 people, expandable to over 2,500 for concerts. Construction Construction of the arena took one and a half years and cost 8.5 million Bulgarian lev, while landscaping and development of the surroundings cost around 4 million lev, taking the total price to around 13 million lev. This led to controversy in 2020 when it was reported that the Arena's annual revenues for 2019 were under 30,000 lev. Reception In 2018, the arena won Sports Building of the Year as part of Bulgarian construction magazine Gradat's Building of the Year awards. Tenants The arena has been the home of BC Shumen of the National Basketball League (Bulgaria), NBL since 2021. Beyond basketball, it also hosts most matches of the HC Shumen 61 and HC Shumen 98 (Women's) handball teams and is suitable for volleyball, and others. Major events Since opening in 2018, the are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shumen
Shumen (, also Romanization of Bulgarian, romanized as ''Shoumen'' or ''Šumen'', ) is the List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, tenth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and economic capital of Shumen Province. Etymology The city was first mentioned as ''Šimeonis'' in 1153 by the Arabs, Arab traveler Muhammad al-Idrisi, Idrisi. The name is probably from Bulgarian ''shuma'' '(deciduous forest).' Some believe Konstantin Jireček that it comes from the name of the Bulgarian emperor Simeon the Great. In the following periods, the city was mentioned with variants, such as ''Şumena'', ''Şumna'', ''Şumular'', ''Sumunum'', ''Şumnu,'' and ''Şumen''. The eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica lists it as ''Shumla'', similar to the way it lists Pleven as Plevna. In Turkish language, Turkish, it is known as ''Şumnu''. History Antiquity and the Middle Ages The first records of Shumen date back to the Chalcolithic. Excavations by Raphael Popov in 1907 founded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
