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Ruse

Ruse

Ruse is a port city on the in . It's is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and one of the two main river crossings to . It has a rich legacy of fin-de-siècle European architecture that calls back to the time when Ruse was one of the most developed and cosmopolitan cities in Bulgaria.
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  • Type: City with 160,000 residents
  • Description: city in Ruse municipality, Ruse oblast, Bulgaria
  • Also known as: “Rousse”, “Ruschuq”, “Rusclink”, “Rusçuk”, “Ruščuk”, “Ruse, Bulgaria”, “Rushchuk”, “Rushtuk”, “Rustchuk”, and “Saray-Makhle”
  • Historically known as: “Rustcuk”
  • Postal code: 7000

Places of Interest

Highlights include City Stadium and St. Pauls Catholic Church.

Stadium
Photo: Getridof, CC0.
Gradski stadion is a multi-purpose stadium in Ruse, Bulgaria. It is used for football matches and concerts. It hosts the home games of Dunav Ruse and Lokomotiv Ruse.

Church
Photo: S. Vasilev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The St Paul of the Cross Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral in the city of Rousse in northeastern . It is the cathedral church of the Latin Catholic Diocese of Nicopoli and it is dedicated to Saint Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists.

Theater building
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an opera company based in Ruse, Bulgaria, and founded in 1949. It took over the Rousse Opera Society, which had been created in 1914.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Slobozia.

Village
is a commune located in , , . It is composed of a single village, . The Solar Park is situated on the administrative territory of the commune.

Ruse

Latitude
43.848° or 43° 50′ 53″ north
Longitude
25.9542° or 25° 57′ 15″ east
Population
160,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
ROU
United Nations Location Code
BG RDU
Open location code
8GM7RXX3+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 174639032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
727523
Wiki­data ID
Q160173
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In Other Languages

From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Ruse” goes by many names.
  • Akan: “Ruse”
  • Albanian: “Ruse, Bullgari”
  • Albanian: “Ruse”
  • Arabic: “روسه”
  • Armenian: “Ռուսե”
  • Asturian: “Ruse”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ruse”
  • Basque: “Ruse”
  • Belarusian: “Русэ”
  • Bengali: “রোইজ”
  • Breton: “Rouse”
  • Breton: “Rousse”
  • Bulgarian: “ГР.РУСЕ”
  • Bulgarian: “Русе”
  • Bulgarian: “Русчук”
  • Catalan: “Rousse”
  • Catalan: “Ruschuk”
  • Catalan: “Rusčuk”
  • Catalan: “Rusçuk”
  • Catalan: “Ruse”
  • Catalan: “Russe”
  • Cebuano: “Ruse (kapital sa rehiyon sa Bulgaria)”
  • Cebuano: “Ruse”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕوسێ”
  • Chechen: “Русе”
  • Chinese: “魯塞”
  • Chinese: “鲁塞”
  • Church Slavic: “Роусе”
  • Church Slavic: “Роусє”
  • Church Slavic: “Роу́сє”
  • Chuvash: “Русе”
  • Croatian: “Ruse”
  • Czech: “Ruse”
  • Danish: “Rousse”
  • Danish: “Ruse”
  • Danish: “Russe”
  • Dutch: “Roese”
  • Dutch: “Rousse”
  • Dutch: “Routschouk”
  • Erzya: “Русэ”
  • Esperanto: “Ruse”
  • Estonian: “Rousse”
  • Estonian: “Ruse”
  • Finnish: “Ruse”
  • Finnish: “Rustšuk”
  • French: “Rouchtchouk”
  • French: “Roussé”
  • French: “Roustchouk”
  • French: “Rusciuc”
  • Georgian: “რუსე”
  • German: “Gemeinde Russe”
  • German: “Liuben Dimitrov”
  • German: “Rousse”
  • German: “Russe”
  • German: “Rustschuk”
  • German: “Sexaginta Prista”
  • Greek: “Ρούσε”
  • Gujarati: “રૂસ”
  • Hebrew: “רוסא”
  • Hebrew: “רוסה”
  • Hebrew: “רוסצ’וק”
  • Hindi: “रूस”
  • Hungarian: “Ruszcsuk”
  • Hungarian: “Rusze”
  • Ido: “Ruse”
  • Ido: “Ruzo”
  • Indonesian: “Ruse”
  • Irish: “Ruse, an Bhulgáir”
  • Irish: “Ruse”
  • Italian: “Rousse”
  • Italian: “Ruse”
  • Japanese: “ルーセ”
  • Japanese: “ルセ”
  • Japanese: “ルッセ”
  • Kannada: “ರೂಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Rwse”
  • Kazakh: “Русе, Рущук (Русе облысы)”
  • Kazakh: “Русе”
  • Kazakh: “رۋسە”
  • Korean: “루세”
  • Latin: “Sexaginta Prista”
  • Latin: “Sexantaprista”
  • Latvian: “Rousse”
  • Latvian: “Ruse”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruse”
  • Lithuanian: “Rusė”
  • Lombard: “Ruse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Rousse”
  • Luxembourgish: “Russe”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ruse”
  • Macedonian: “Русе”
  • Malay: “Ruse”
  • Maltese: “Ruse”
  • Marathi: “रुसे”
  • Mingrelian: “რუსე”
  • Moksha: “Русэ”
  • Mongolian: “Русе”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ruse (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ruse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rustsjuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Byen Ruse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rousse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruse i Bulgaria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ruse”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Russe”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rustchuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rustsjuk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Русе”
  • Norwegian: “Ruse”
  • Ossetian: “Русе”
  • Persian: “روسه، بلغارستان”
  • Polish: “Ruse”
  • Portuguese: “Rousse”
  • Portuguese: “Ruse”
  • Romanian: “Rousse”
  • Romanian: “Rusciuc”
  • Romanian: “Rusciuk”
  • Romanian: “Ruse”
  • Russian: “Русе”
  • Russian: “Рущук”
  • Scots: “Ruse, Bulgarie”
  • Scots: “Ruse”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Rousse”
  • Serbian: “Ruse”
  • Serbian: “Русе”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ruse”
  • Silesian: “Ruse”
  • Sinhala: “රූස්”
  • Slovak: “Ruse”
  • Slovenian: “Ruse”
  • South Azerbaijani: “روس, بولغاریستان”
  • Spanish: “Rousse”
  • Spanish: “Routschouck”
  • Spanish: “Ruse”
  • Spanish: “Sexaginta Prista”
  • Swedish: “Rousse”
  • Swedish: “Ruse”
  • Swedish: “Russe”
  • Swedish: “Rustjuk”
  • Swedish: “Rustschuk”
  • Tamil: “ருஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Русе”
  • Telugu: “రూస్”
  • Thai: “รูเซ”
  • Turkish: “Rusçuk”
  • Turkish: “Ruse”
  • Turkmen: “Ruse”
  • Ukrainian: “Русе”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ruse”
  • Urdu: “روسے، بلغاریہ”
  • Venetian: “Ruse”
  • Veps: “Ruse”
  • Vietnamese: “Rousse”
  • Vietnamese: “Ruse, Bulgaria”
  • Vietnamese: “Ruse”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ruse”
  • Volapük: “Ruse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rousse”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ruse”
  • Welsh: “Ruse”
  • Western Armenian: “Ռուսէ”
  • Wu Chinese: “鲁塞”
  • Yue Chinese: “魯塞”
  • “Rusçuk”
  • “Ruse”

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