Ruse
Ruse is a port city on the Danube in North Bulgaria. It is the sixth largest city in Bulgaria, and one of the two main river crossings to Romania. 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.
- Type: City with 160,000 residents
- Description: city in Ruse municipality, Ruse oblast, Bulgaria
- Also known as: “Byen Ruse”, “Gemeinde Russe”, “Liuben Dimitrov”, “Rouchtchouk”, “Rousse”, “Roustchouk”, “Routschouck”, “Routschouk”, “Ruschuk”, “Ruschuq”, “Rusciuc”, “Rusciuk”, “Rusclink”, “Rusčuk”, “Ruščuk”, “Ruse i Bulgaria”, “Ruse, Bulgaria”, “Rushchuk”, “Rushtuk”, “Rustchuk”, “Rustjuk”, “Rustschuk”, “Rustsjuk”, “Rustšuk”, “Ruszcsuk”, “Saray-Makhle”, “Sexaginta Prista”, “ГР.РУСЕ”, “Роусе”, “Роу́сє”, “Русе, Рущук (Русе облысы)”, “Русчук”, “Рущук”, “רוסא”, “רוסצ’וק”, “ルーセ”, and “ルッセ”
- Historically known as: “Rustcuk”
- Postal code: 7000
Places of Interest
Highlights: City Stadium and St. Pauls Catholic Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Slobozia.
Ruse
- Categories: border city, big city, municipality seat, oblast seat, city in Bulgaria, and locality
- Location: Ruse, North Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
BG RDU
Open location code
8GM7RXX3+6M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Yue Chinese—“Ruse” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Ruse”
- Albanian: “Ruse, Bullgari”
- Albanian: “Ruse”
- Amharic: “ሩሰ”
- Arabic: “روسه”
- Armenian: “Ռուսե”
- Asturian: “Ruse”
- Azerbaijani: “Ruse”
- Basque: “Ruse”
- Belarusian: “Русэ”
- Bengali: “রুসে”
- Bengali: “রোইজ”
- Breton: “Rouse”
- Bulgarian: “Русе”
- 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: “Роусє”
- Chuvash: “Русе”
- Croatian: “Ruse”
- Czech: “Ruse”
- Danish: “Ruse”
- Dutch: “Roese”
- Erzya: “Русэ”
- Esperanto: “Ruse”
- Estonian: “Ruse”
- Finnish: “Ruse”
- French: “Roussé”
- Georgian: “რუსე”
- German: “Russe”
- Greek: “Ρούσε”
- Gujarati: “રૂસ”
- Hausa: “Ruse”
- Hebrew: “רוסה”
- Hindi: “रूस”
- Hindi: “रूसे”
- Hungarian: “Rusze”
- Ido: “Ruse”
- Ido: “Ruzo”
- Indonesian: “Ruse”
- Irish: “Ruse, an Bhulgáir”
- Irish: “Ruse”
- Italian: “Ruse”
- Japanese: “ルセ”
- Javanese: “Ruse”
- Kannada: “ರೂಸೆ”
- Kannada: “ರೂಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Rwse”
- Kazakh: “Русе”
- Kazakh: “رۋسە”
- Kirghiz: “Русе”
- Korean: “루세”
- Latin: “Sexantaprista”
- Latvian: “Ruse”
- Lithuanian: “Rusė”
- Lombard: “Ruse”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Ruse”
- Norwegian: “Ruse”
- Oromo: “Ruse”
- Ossetian: “Русе”
- Panjabi: “ਰੂਸੇ”
- Persian: “روسه، بلغارستان”
- Persian: “روسه”
- Polish: “Ruse”
- Portuguese: “Ruse”
- Pushto: “روسې”
- Romanian: “Ruse”
- Russian: “Русе”
- Scots: “Ruse, Bulgarie”
- Scots: “Ruse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rousse”
- Serbian: “Ruse”
- Serbian: “Русе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ruse”
- Silesian: “Ruse”
- Sinhala: “රුසේ, බල්ගේරියාව”
- Sinhala: “රූස්”
- Slovak: “Ruse”
- Slovenian: “Ruse”
- Somali: “Ruse”
- South Azerbaijani: “روس, بولغاریستان”
- Spanish: “Ruse”
- Swahili: “Ruse”
- Swedish: “Ruse”
- Tajik: “Русе”
- Tamil: “ருஸ்”
- Tatar: “Русе”
- Telugu: “రూస్”
- Thai: “รูเซ”
- Turkish: “Rusçuk”
- Turkmen: “Ruse”
- Ukrainian: “Русе”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ruse”
- Urdu: “روسے، بلغاریہ”
- Uzbek: “Ruse”
- Venetian: “Ruse”
- Veps: “Ruse”
- Vietnamese: “Rousse”
- Vietnamese: “Ruse, Bulgaria”
- Vietnamese: “Ruse”
- Vlax Romani: “Ruse”
- Volapük: “Ruse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rousse”
- Welsh: “Ruse”
- Western Armenian: “Ռուսէ”
- Wu Chinese: “鲁塞”
- Yue Chinese: “魯塞”
- “Русе”
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