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RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the capital of the department of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33

RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the See also:
CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)
capital of the See also:
DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)
department of Rustchuk, See also:
BULGARIA
BULGARIA, EASTERN
Bulgaria, on the right See also:
BANK
bank of the See also:
DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)
Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33 ,552. Rustchuk is the headquarters of a military See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division and of a See also:

NAVAL

naval flotilla stationed on the Danube. As a See also:

RIVER

river-See also:

PORT

port and the See also:

TERMINUS

terminus of See also:

RAILWAYS

railways from See also:

VARNA

Varna and from See also:

SOFIA (Bulgarian Sredetz, the middle town, a name now little used)

Sofia via See also:

TRNOVO, or TIRNOVO

Trnovo, it has much commercial importance; and it possesses See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco and cigarette factories, See also:

SOAP

soap-See also:

WORKS

works, breweries, aerated See also:

WATER

water factories, dyeworks, tanneries, sawmills, See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick and See also:

TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile works and a celebrated pottery. In the See also:

time of the See also:

Romans Rustchuk was one of the fortified points along the See also:

LINE

line of the Danube. In the Tabula Peutingeriana it appears as Prisca, in the Antonine Itinerary as Serantaprista, in the. Notitia as Seragintaprista and in See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy as Priste Polls. Destroyed by See also:

BARBARIAN (Gr. fap/3apos)

barbarian invaders in the 7th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the See also:

TOWN

town recovered its importance only in comparatively See also:

MODERN

modern times. In 1810 it was captured by the Russians, who destroyed the fortifications.

It played an important See also:

PART

part in the Russo-See also:

TURKISH

Turkish See also:

WARS

Wars" of 1828-29, 1853,-54 and 1877-78. In 1877 it was nearly destroyed by the See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

ARTILLERY (the O. Fr. artiller, to equip with engines of war, probably comes from Late Lat. articulum, dim. of ars, art, cf. " engine " from ingenium, or of artus, joint)

artillery stationed in the Rumanian town of See also:

GIURGEVO (Giurgiu)

Giurgevo, on the opposite bank of the Danube.

End of Article: RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the capital of the department of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33

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