Ruthven
Ruthven, Aberdeenshire is a village in Scotland near Huntly, and Keith. It is traditionally pronounced "Riven". The "Wow o Riven" was a church bell in the area, and is mentioned in the ballad about Tam o Riven, a knight who lived in The "Wow o Riven" became the title of one of George MacDonald's short stories too, which plays in Ruthven.Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Ruthven, Aberdeenshire”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairnie and Milltown of Rothiemay.
Cairnie
Village
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cairnie, also written Cairney, is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is in the district of Huntly. It has a primary school, Cairney Primary School. Cairnie is situated 2 miles southwest of Ruthven.
Milltown of Rothiemay
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milltown of Rothiemay is a small inland village, built mostly of granite, in the north-east of Scotland and is within the Moray council area bordering neighbouring Aberdeenshire across the river to the south-east. Milltown of Rothiemay is situated 2½ miles east of Ruthven.
Ardonald
Hamlet
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ardonald is a rural area near Cairnie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Ardonald is situated 3½ miles southwest of Ruthven.
Ruthven
- Category: locality
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.50951° or 57° 30′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.82499° or 2° 49′ 30″ westElevation
358 feet (109 metres)Open location code
9C9VG55G+R2OpenStreetMap ID
node 533759058OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Zulu—“Ruthven” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Ruthven”
- Afar: “Ruthven”
- Afrikaans: “Ruthven”
- Albanian: “Ruthven”
- Aragonese: “Ruthven”
- Arpitan: “Ruthven”
- Asturian: “Ruthven”
- Atayal: “Ruthven”
- Atikamekw: “Ruthven”
- Aymara: “Ruthven”
- Azerbaijani: “Ruthven”
- Bambara: “Ruthven”
- Banjar: “Ruthven”
- Basque: “Ruthven”
- Bavarian: “Ruthven”
- Bislama: “Ruthven”
- Breton: “Ruthven”
- Cajun French: “Ruthven”
- Catalan: “Ruthven”
- Cebuano: “Ruthven”
- Chamorro: “Ruthven”
- Chavacano: “Ruthven”
- Cheyenne: “Ruthven”
- Choctaw: “Ruthven”
- Cornish: “Ruthven”
- Corsican: “Ruthven”
- Creek: “Ruthven”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ruthven”
- Czech: “Ruthven”
- Danish: “Ruthven”
- Dinka: “Ruthven”
- Dutch: “Ruthven”
- Esperanto: “Ruthven”
- Estonian: “Ruthven”
- Ewe: “Ruthven”
- Extremaduran: “Ruthven”
- Faroese: “Ruthven”
- Fijian: “Ruthven”
- Finnish: “Ruthven”
- French: “Ruthven”
- Friulian: “Ruthven”
- Fulah: “Ruthven”
- Gagauz: “Ruthven”
- Galician: “Ruthven”
- German: “Ruthven”
- Gheg Albanian: “Ruthven”
- Gorontalo: “Ruthven”
- Guarani: “Ruthven”
- Guianese Creole French: “Ruthven”
- Haitian: “Ruthven”
- Hausa: “Ruthven”
- Herero: “Ruthven”
- Hiligaynon: “Ruthven”
- Hiri Motu: “Ruthven”
- Icelandic: “Ruthven”
- Ido: “Ruthven”
- Igbo: “Ruthven”
- Indonesian: “Ruthven”
- Interlingua: “Ruthven”
- Interlingue: “Ruthven”
- Inupiaq: “Ruthven”
- Irish: “Ruadhainn, Obar Dheathain”
- Irish: “Ruadhainn”
- Italian: “Ruthven”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Ruthven”
- Javanese: “Ruthven”
- Jutish: “Ruthven”
- Kabiyè: “Ruthven”
- Kabyle: “Ruthven”
- Kalaallisut: “Ruthven”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Ruthven”
- Kashubian: “Ruthven”
- Kikuyu: “Ruthven”
- Kinaray-A: “Ruthven”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ruthven”
- Kölsch: “Ruthven”
- Kongo: “Ruthven”
- Krio: “Ruthven”
- Kurdish: “Ruthven”
- Ladino: “Ruthven”
- Latgalian: “Ruthven”
- Latin: “Ruthven”
- Latvian: “Ruthven”
- Ligurian: “Ruthven”
- Limburgan: “Ruthven”
- Lingala: “Ruthven”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Ruthven”
- Lithuanian: “Ruthven”
- Liv: “Ruthven”
- Livvi: “Ruthven”
- Lojban: “Ruthven”
- Lombard: “Ruthven”
- Low German: “Ruthven”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ruthven”
- Luxembourgish: “Ruthven”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Ruthven”
- Mainfränkisch: “Ruthven”
- Malagasy: “Ruthven”
- Malay: “Ruthven”
- Maltese: “Ruthven”
- Manx: “Ruthven”
- Maori: “Ruthven”
- Mapudungun: “Ruthven”
- Marshallese: “Ruthven”
- Megleno Romanian: “Ruthven”
- Minangkabau: “Ruthven”
- Mirandese: “Ruthven”
- Narom: “Ruthven”
- Nauru: “Ruthven”
- Navajo: “Ruthven”
- Neapolitan: “Ruthven”
- Northern Frisian: “Ruthven”
- Northern Sami: “Ruthven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruthven”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruthven”
- Novial: “Ruthven”
- Nyanja: “Ruthven”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ruthven”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ruthven”
- Oromo: “Ruthven”
- Pampanga: “Ruthven”
- Pangasinan: “Ruthven”
- Papiamento: “Ruthven”
- Pedi: “Ruthven”
- Pennsylvania German: “Ruthven”
- Pfaelzisch: “Ruthven”
- Picard: “Ruthven”
- Piemontese: “Ruthven”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ruthven”
- Plautdietsch: “Ruthven”
- Prussian: “Ruthven”
- Quechua: “Ruthven”
- Romanian: “Ruthven”
- Romansh: “Ruthven”
- Rundi: “Ruthven”
- Samoan: “Ruthven”
- Samogitian: “Ruthven”
- Sango: “Ruthven”
- Santali: “Ruthven”
- Sardinian: “Ruthven”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ruthven”
- Scots: “Ruthven”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ruadhainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ruthven”
- Serbian: “Ruthven”
- Shona: “Ruthven”
- Sicilian: “Ruthven”
- Silesian: “Ruthven”
- Slovak: “Ruthven”
- Slovenian: “Ruthven”
- Somali: “Ruthven”
- Southern Sami: “Ruthven”
- Southern Sotho: “Ruthven”
- Spanish: “Ruthven”
- Sranan Tongo: “Ruthven”
- Sundanese: “Ruthven”
- Swahili: “Ruthven”
- Swati: “Ruthven”
- Swedish: “Ruthven”
- Swiss German: “Ruthven”
- Tagalog: “Ruthven”
- Tatar: “Ruthven”
- Telugu: “రుత్వెన్”
- Tetum: “Ruthven”
- Tok Pisin: “Ruthven”
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Ruthven”
- Tsonga: “Ruthven”
- Tswana: “Ruthven”
- Tumbuka: “Ruthven”
- Turkmen: “Ruthven”
- Twi: “Ruthven”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ruthven”
- Venda: “Ruthven”
- Venetian: “Ruthven”
- Veps: “Ruthven”
- Vlax Romani: “Ruthven”
- Volapük: “Ruthven”
- Võro: “Ruthven”
- Votic: “Ruthven”
- Walloon: “Ruthven”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ruthven”
- Welsh: “Ruthven”
- Western Frisian: “Ruthven”
- Wolof: “Ruthven”
- Xhosa: “Ruthven”
- Yoruba: “Ruthven”
- Zeeuws: “Ruthven”
- Zhuang: “Ruthven”
- Zulu: “Ruthven”
- “Ruthven”
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