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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

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 936 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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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 ,552. Rustchuk is the headquarters of a military division and of a naval flotilla stationed on the
Danube
 . As a river-port and the terminus of railways from Varna and from Sofia via
Trnovo
 , it has much commercial importance; and it possesses tobacco and cigarette factories, soap-works, breweries, aerated water factories, dyeworks, tanneries, sawmills, brick and tile works and a celebrated pottery.
In the time of the Romans Rustchuk was one of the fortified points along the 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
Ptolemy
  as Priste Polls. Destroyed by barbarian invaders in the 7th
century
  the town recovered its importance only in comparatively
modern
  times. In 1810 it was captured by the Russians, who destroyed the fortifications. It played an important
part
  in the Russo-Turkish Wars" of 1828-29, 1853,-54 and 1877-78. In 1877 it was nearly destroyed by the
Russian
  artillery stationed in the Rumanian town of Giurgevo, on the opposite bank of the Danube.


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