The town is 155 metres above sea level in the Danubian Plain.

[2] Pordim is thought to be the site of the first ever telephone connection in Bulgaria, during the siege of Plevna of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78.

It linked Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia with Prince Carol I of Romania.

[citation needed] The town played an active part in the war of 1877–78.

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