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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 936 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the See also:capital of the See also:department of Rustchuk, See also:Bulgaria, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33  ,552 . See also:Rustchuk is the headquarters of a military See also:division and of a See also:naval flotilla stationed on the See also:Danube . As a See also:river-See also:port and the See also:terminus of See also:railways from See also:Varna and from See also:Sofia via See also:Trnovo, it has much commercial importance; and it possesses See also:tobacco and cigarette factories, See also:soap-See also:works, breweries, aerated See also:water factories, dyeworks, tanneries, sawmills, See also:brick and See also: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 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 as Priste Polls . Destroyed by See also:barbarian invaders in the 7th See also:century the See also:town recovered its importance only in comparatively See also:modern times . In 1810 it was captured by the Russians, who destroyed the fortifications . It played an important See also:part in the Russo-See also:Turkish See also:Wars" of 1828-29, 1853,-54 and 1877-78 . In 1877 it was nearly destroyed by the See also:Russian See also:artillery stationed in the Rumanian town of See also:Giurgevo, on the opposite See also:bank of the Danube .

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