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Rousse (also transliterated as Ruse or Russe; ) is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....
with a population of near 175,600. Rousse is situated in the northeastern part of the country, on the right bank of the Danube

Danube

The Danube is the longest river in the European Union and Europe's second longest river after the Volga.The river originates in the Black Forest in Germany as the much smaller Brigach and Breg River rivers which join at the eponymously named German town Donaueschingen, after which it is known as the Danube and flows eastwards for a distance...
, opposite the Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
n city of Giurgiu

Giurgiu

Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Sofia , is the Capital and largest city of the Bulgaria, with 2,5 million people living in the Capital Municipality. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of the mountain massif Vitosha, and is the administrative, cultural, economic, and educational centre of the country....
and 200 km from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

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Rousse (also transliterated as Ruse or Russe; ) is the fifth-largest city in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Danube

Romania

Giurgiu

Kilometre

The kilometre , symbol km is a Units of measurement of length in the metric system, equal to one thousand metres.Slang terms for kilometre include click and kay ....
from the capital Sofia

Sofia

Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

The Bulgarian Black Sea Riviera covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to Marmara Region, Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline....
. It is the most significant Bulgarian river port, serving an important part of the international trade of the country.

Rousse is known for its 19th- and 20th-century Neo-Baroque

Neo-baroque

Neo-Baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper?i.e., the 17th and 18th centuries....
and Neo-Rococo

Rococo

Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings....
architecture, which attracts many tourists. The Rousse-Giurgiu Friendship Bridge

Giurgiu-Rousse Friendship Bridge

Geography

Rousse is located on the right bank of the Danube, which is the high bank, having two underwater terraces

Terrace deposit

A terrace deposit is geology term for a flat platform of land created alongside of a river or sea, where, at some time in the past, the river has cut itself a deeper channel....
and three land terraces at 15–22 m

Metre

The metre or meter is a Unit of measurement of length. It is the SI base unit of length in the metric system and in the International System of Units , used around the world for general and scientific purposes....
, 30–66 m, and 54–65 m. The average altitude is 45.5 m AMSL

Above mean sea level

The term above mean sea level refers to the elevation or altitude of any object, relative to the average sea level datum . AMSL is used extensively in radio by engineers to determine the coverage area a station will be able to reach....
. The urban area is an approximately 11-km ellipse running along the river. The city extends from the land-connected Matey island and the mouth of Rusenski Lom

Rusenski Lom

The Rusenski Lom is a river in northeastern Bulgaria, the last major right tributary of the Danube. It is formed by the rivers Beli Lom and Cherni Lom, the former taking its source south of Razgrad and the latter southeast of Popovo....
on the west to Srabcheto hill on the east. During the 20th century, the west end of the city was significantly modified by moving the mouth of Rusenski Lom

Rusenski Lom

The Rusenski Lom is a river in northeastern Bulgaria, the last major right tributary of the Danube. It is formed by the rivers Beli Lom and Cherni Lom, the former taking its source south of Razgrad and the latter southeast of Popovo....
to the west, as well as by moving the bank itself with its fairway considerably to the north. Sarabair hill is to the south of the city and is 159 m high. The Rousse TV Tower

Rousse TV Tower

The Rousse TV Tower is a 204-meter high TV tower built of reinforced concrete at Rousse, Bulgaria. Originally, the structure was constructed as a 206-meter-high TV tower with a cafe/restaurant on top and was the tallest one on the Balkan peninsula until 2001....
is built there on the remains of Leventtabia, a former Turkish fortification.

History

Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

The city emerged as a Thracian

Thracians

The ancient Thracians were a group of Indo-European peoples who spoke the Thracian language - a scarcely attested branch of the Indo-European language family....
settlement from the 3rd

3rd millennium BC

The 3rd millennium BC spans the Early to Middle Bronze Age.It represents a period of time in which imperialism, or the desire to conquer, grew to prominence, in the city states of the Middle East, but also throughout Eurasia, with Indo-European people expansion to Anatolia, Europe and Central Asia....
to 2nd millennium BCE, when pottery, fishing, agriculture, and hunting developed. Excavations reveal several layers, suggesting that the place was attacked by neighbouring tribes and suffered some natural disasters. Ancient sanctuaries were found nearby, where idols of a pregnant woman, a fertility goddess, were prevalent. The Thracian settlement later developed into a Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
military and naval centre during the reign of Vespasian

Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
(69-70 CE) as part of the fortification system along the northern boundary of Moesia

Moesia

Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the areas of modern Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania along the south bank of the Danube River....
. Its name, Sexaginta Prista, suggests a meaning of "a city of 60 ships" (from — "60" and — a special type of guard ship), based on the supposed 60 nearby berth

Berth

The term berth is used to describe a bed on a boat or train, or a location in a port or harbour used specifically for Mooring vessels while not at sea , or for describing playoff positions for teams with no initial competition in sports, also for a place on the hit television show University Challenge....
s. The fortress was located on the main road between Singidunum

Singidunum

Singidunum was an ancient Roman city, first settled by the Celts Scordisci tribe in the 3rd century BC, and later garrisoned and fortified by the Ancient Rome who romanized the name....
(modern Belgrade

Belgrade

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies on international waterway, at the confluence of the Sava River and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkan Peninsula....
) and the Danube Delta

Danube Delta

The Danube river delta is the second largest delta in Europe, after the Volga Delta, and is the best preserved on the continent . The greater part of the Danube Delta lies in Romania , while its northern part, on the left bank of the Chilia arm, is situated in Ukraine ....
and was destroyed in the sixth century by Avar

Eurasian Avars

The 'Avars' were a highly organized and powerful Turkic confederation. They were ruled by a khagan, who was surrounded by a tight-knit retinue of nomad warriors, an organization characteristic of Turkic peoples groups....
and Slavic

Slavic peoples

The Slavic Peoples are a linguistic branch of Indo-European peoples, living mainly in eastern Europe. From the early 6th century they spread from their original homeland to inhabit most of eastern Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Balkans....
raids. Hungarian

Hungary

Hungary , officially in English the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in the Carpathian Basin of Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia....
historian Felix Philipp Kanitz

Felix Philipp Kanitz

Felix Philipp Kanitz was an Austria-Hungary natural history, geographer, ethnographer, archaeologist and author of travel notes.Kanitz was born in Budapest to a rich Jewish family and enrolled in art in the University of Vienna in 1846, at the age of seventeen....
was the first to identify Sexaginta Prista with Rousse, but the Škorpil brothers demonstrated the link later through studying inscriptions, coins, graves, and objects of daily life. An inscription from the reign of Diocletian

Diocletian

Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus , born Diocles and commonly known as Diocletian , was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305....
proves that the city was rebuilt as a praesidium (a large fortification) after it was destroyed by the Goths

Goths

The Goths were East Germanic tribes who, in the 3rd and 4th centuries, invasion the Roman Empire and later adopted Arian Christianity. In the 5th and 6th centuries, divided as the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, they established powerful successor-states of the Roman Empire in the Iberian peninsula and Italy....
in 250 CE.

Second Bulgarian Empire and Ottoman rule

In the 13th and 14th centuries, during the time of the Second Bulgarian Empire

Second Bulgarian Empire

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan of Bulgaria and Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria before gradually declining to be conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century....
, a fortified settlement called Rusi (also Golyamo Yorgovo; ), first mentioned in 1380, emerged near the ruins of the Roman town. It later strengthened its position as an important trade centre with the lands on the opposite side of the Danube, until it was conquered by the Ottomans in 1388. Scholars suggest that the city on the river bank derived its present name from the Cherven fortress

Cherven (fortress)

The stronghold of Cherven was one of the Second Bulgarian Empire's primary military, administrative, economic and cultural centres between the 12th and the 14th century....
(; "" meaning red) through the root rous, which is present in many Slavic languages

Slavic languages

File:Slavic europe.svgThe Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia....
and is a cognate of French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
rouge and Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
rusos.

During Ottoman rule, the invaders destroyed the town, reacting to a 1595 unsuccessful liberation attempt by a joint Vlach-Bulgarian army, led by Michael the Brave

Michael the Brave

Michael the Brave was the Prince of Wallachia , of Transylvania , and of Moldavia , the three Romanian principalities that he united under his rule....
. After its rebuilding in the following years, Rousse was dubbed Rusçuk (Turkish

Turkish language

Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
for "little Rousse") and had again expanded into a large fortress by the 18th century. It later grew into one of the most important Ottoman towns on the Danube and an administrative centre of Tuna Vilayet, which extended from Varna

Varna

Tulcea

Tulcea is a city in Dobruja, Romania. It is the administrative center of the Tulcea County, and has a population of 91,875 as of 2002....
to Sofia

Sofia

Niš

Ni? is a city in Ni?ava District, Serbia situated at 43.3? N 21.9? E, on the Ni?ava River. With more than 250,000 inhabitants it is the largest city of South Serbia and third-largest city in the country, after Belgrade and Novi Sad....
.

The “Dunav” newspaper appeared – it was the first printed in Bulgaria and … in Bulgarian. Some Bulgarian schools were founded. The streets are renamed and numbered for the first time in Bulgarian lands. A post-office, hospital, home for the aged were founded. Three empires met here for trading: Austro-Hungary, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, British Empire

British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
, France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
and Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
opened consulates in Ruschuk. Imperceptibly, the modern city arose from the shades of the settlement. In 1865 the Obraztsov Chiflik was founded on the place where the English Consul’s farm was and it was the first modern farm on the territory of the whole Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299?1923. It was Treaty of Lausanne by the Republic of Turkey, which was officially proclaimed on October 29, 1923....
of that time.

Rousse developed into a centre of the Bulgarian National Revival

Bulgarian National Revival

The Bulgarian National Revival , sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman Empire rule....
and hosted the headquarters of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee

The Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee or BRCK was a Bulgarian revolutionary organisation founded in 1869 among the Bulgarian emigrant circles in Romania....
.

Liberated Bulgaria

After it was liberated

Liberation of Bulgaria

In Bulgarian historiography, the term Liberation of Bulgaria is used to denote the events of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 that led to the establishment of a Bulgarian people state with the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March, 1878....
from the Ottoman Empire on 20 February 1878, Rousse was one of the key cultural and economic centres of the country and the seat of Bulgarian shipping. Intensive building during the period changed the city's architectural appearance to a typical Central Europe

Central Europe

Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern Europe and Western Europe Europe. In addition, Northern Europe, Southern Europe and Southeastern Europe may variously delimit or overlap into Central Europe....
an one. That was also a time for a number of firsts for Bulgaria centred on Rousse, including the first private bank (Girdap), insurance company, chamber of commerce, filmshow, metal ship, and weather station.

“All facades on main streets of Russe shall have rich decorations with plastic stone”, postulate the Regulations for Constructions of Private Buildings of 1893, issued by the Municipality of Russe.

After knyaz Alexander Battenberg

Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria

Alexander Joseph of Battenberg , the first prince of modern Bulgaria, reigning from April 29, 1879 to September 7, 1886....
's 1886 abdication

History of Independent Bulgaria

The Treaty of San Stefano of March 3, 1878 provided for a autonomy Bulgarian state, which comprised the geographical regions of Moesia, Thrace and Macedonia ....
, and as a reaction to the regentship's course led by prime minister Stefan Stambolov

Stefan Stambolov

Stefan Nikolov Stambolov was a Bulgarian statesman, in his capacity as Prime Minister and Prince Regent of Bulgaria. He is considered one of the most important and popular "Founders of Modern Bulgaria" and is sometimes referred to as "the Bulgarian Otto von Bismarck"....
, a group of Russophile (pro-Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
n) military officers revolted in Rousse. The riot was violently crushed, and 13 of the leaders were quickly sentenced to death and executed near the city, which caused a lot of public discontent. Decades later, in 1934, local citizens raised funds and built a monument at the place where the Russophile officers were executed. The monument was blown up in 1940, but rebuilt in 1966 at approximately the same spot.

World War II and Communism

Between World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
and II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, after Southern Dobruja

Southern Dobruja

Southern Dobruja is an area of north-eastern Bulgaria comprising the administrative districts named for its two principal cities of Dobrich and Silistra....
was lost to Romania, the economic significance of the city decreased. So did the population, and Rousse was no longer the second-largest city in Bulgarian lands (after former East Rumelian capital Plovdiv

Plovdiv

Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, with a population of 379,119. It is the administrative centre of Plovdiv Province in southern Bulgaria and three municipalities , as well as the largest and most important city in Northern Thrace and the wider international historical region of Thrace....
), being quickly surpassed by Sofia

Sofia

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in Northern Bulgaria, third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, and Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits, with a population of 352,211....
. Many big companies left, and all foreign consulates were closed, except for the Russian one, which has remained functional since.

The return of Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria in September 1940 fostered good conditions for restoration of the city's leading role. It became a provincial centre, and economic activity revived. The construction of the Rousse-Giurgiu bridge

Giurgiu-Rousse Friendship Bridge

The Giurgiu-Rousse Friendship Bridge is a steel truss bridge over the Danube River connecting the Bulgarian bank to the south with the Romanian bank to the north and the cities of Rousse and Giurgiu respectively....
in 1954 and the fast industrialization gave a new push to development. Rousse emerged again as an important economic, transport, cultural, and educational hub. Engineering, chemical, and light industries expanded; a large harbor was built; and the city became a university centre. At the 1985 census, a population of more than 186,000 was reported.

Fall of Communism and democratic Bulgaria

In the early 1980s, Rousse entered a dark period of its history. The Verachim factory was built in Giurgiu

Giurgiu

Giurgiu is the capital city of Giurgiu County, Romania, in the Greater Wallachia. It is situated amid mud-flats and marshes on the left bank of the Danube facing the Bulgarian city of Rousse on the opposite bank....
, which polluted the air between 1980 and 1987, impacting the city's development. Population decreased, and 15,000 people moved out between 1985 and 1992. Fortunately, in 1987, the Romanian factory ceased the pollution, under pressure from environmental organizations on both Bulgarian and Romanian communist leadership. Organizations, such as Ekoglasnost, provoked nationwide demonstrations and strongly influenced the change to democracy.

During the 1990s, the global economic crisis in Bulgaria affected Rousse. Most big companies suffered a decline and unemployment increased, which led to renewed emigration waves. Since 2000, the city has been continually regaining its former leading status.

Today, Rousse is a large Bulgarian city, with a population over 170,000, and is one of the basic cultural and economic centres of northern Bulgaria. The country's accession to the European Union

European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
is expected to bring local benefit through new investments and opportunities for international business.

Approximately 15 km southeast of Rousse is the village of Shtraklevo, near which is the former military Rousse Airport (currently closed). Plans exist to redevelop and reopen the airport by 2008–09 for internal, charter, and cargo flights. The runway is long enough for Boeing 747

Boeing 747

The Boeing 747 is a wide-body aircraft commercial airliner, often referred to by the nickname "Jumbo Jet". It is among the world's most recognizable aircraft, and was the first widebody ever produced....
s (Jumbo Jets).

Culture

Noted for its rich culture, Rousse hosts a philharmonic orchestra

Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra

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and the Rousse State Opera

Rousse State Opera

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(founded in 1949). The city is particularly famous for its Baroque

Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture, starting in the early 17th century in Italy, took the humanist Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical, theatrical, sculptural fashion, expressing the triumph of absolutist church and state....
and Rococo

Rococo

Museums

National Transport Museum
Battenberg Palace, built 1892, which now hosts the Rousse Regional Historical Museum
Pantheon of National Revival Heroes
Pantheon of National Revival Heroes

The Pantheon of National Revival Heroes is a Bulgarian national monument and an ossuary, located in the city of Rousse. 39 famous Bulgarians are buried in it, including Lyuben Karavelov, Zahari Stoyanov, Stefan Karadzha, Panayot Hitov, Tonka Obretenova, Nikola Obretenov, Panayot Volov, Angel Kanchev, etc.; 453 more people?participants in B...
Kaliopa House
Kaliopa House

The Kaliopa House , a popular name for the Bulgarian "Urban lifestyle of Rousse" museum , was built in 1864. According to a legend, the house was bestowed upon the beautiful Kaliopa , the wife of the Prussian consul Kalish, by the governor of the Danubian Vilayet, Midhat Pasha, who was in love with her....
, a museum depicting the old urban lifestyle
Zahari Stoyanov Museum

Religious buildings

Church of the Holy Trinity
Church of the Holy Theotokos
Church of St George
Church of Holy Archangel Michael
Church of the Holy Ascension
Church of St Petka
Russian
Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian Orthodox Church ; or The Moscow Patriarchate , also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christianity who constitute an Autocephaly Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the List of Metropolitans and Patriarchs of Moscow, in full communion with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches....
Church of St Nicholas the Miracle Worker
Roman Catholic St Paul of the Cross Cathedral
St Paul of the Cross Cathedral

The St Paul of the Cross Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Rousse in northeastern Bulgaria. It is the cathedral church of the Nicopolis ad Istrum diocese and is dedicated to St Paul of the Cross, patron of the Passionists....
, built 1890
Armenian
Armenian Apostolic Church

The Armenian Apostolic Church is the world's oldest national church and one of the most ancient Christianity communities.The official name of the church is the One Holy Universal Apostolic Orthodox Armenian Church ....
Surp Astvadzadzin Church
Evangelical Baptist
Baptist

A Baptist is a member of a Christian denomination characterized by the rejection of infant baptism in favor of believer's baptism by Baptism#Immersion....
church
Seid Pasha Mosque
Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo

The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monastery hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, Ruse Province, 20 kilometre south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 metre above the river....
, a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site

A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site that is on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 Sovereign state which are elected by their General Assembly for a four-year term....
, is situated 20 km to the south.

In 1978, the All Saints Church was destroyed and the Pantheon of National Revival Heroes

Pantheon of National Revival Heroes

The Pantheon of National Revival Heroes is a Bulgarian national monument and an ossuary, located in the city of Rousse. 39 famous Bulgarians are buried in it, including Lyuben Karavelov, Zahari Stoyanov, Stefan Karadzha, Panayot Hitov, Tonka Obretenova, Nikola Obretenov, Panayot Volov, Angel Kanchev, etc.; 453 more people?participants in B...
was built thereupon.

The Jewish community in Rousse built and consecrated a synagogue

Synagogue

A synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer.Synagogues usually have a large hall for prayer , smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices....
in 1797. It was destroyed in the 1810 fire, but two other synagogues were later built in 1826 and 1852.

Other landmarks

Dohodno Zdanie
Dohodno Zdanie

Dohodno Zdanie is an imposing Neoclassicism edifice on Freedom Square in the city centre of Rousse, Bulgaria, built in 1898?1902 to accommodate the local theatre performances....
(literally: "Profitable Building") is an old theatre and one of the most beautiful buildings.
Monument of Liberty
Monument of Liberty, Rousse

The Monument of Liberty in Rousse, Bulgaria, was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Italy sculptor Arnoldo Zocchi. As time went by, it gained significance as one of the city's symbols, and now forms a part of her coat of arms....
, built (1908–1911).
Rousse TV Tower
Rousse TV Tower

The Rousse TV Tower is a 204-meter high TV tower built of reinforced concrete at Rousse, Bulgaria. Originally, the structure was constructed as a 206-meter-high TV tower with a cafe/restaurant on top and was the tallest one on the Balkan peninsula until 2001....
, the tallest TV tower in Bulgaria and one of the tallest buildings on the Balkan Peninsula .

Regular events

The March Music Days is an international music festival
Music festival

A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday....
for classical music
Classical music

Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of Western art history Religious music and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times....
.
St George's Day
St George's Day

St George's Day is celebrated by several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities, of which Saint George is the patron saint, including England, the old kingdoms and counties of the Crown of Aragon in Spain - Aragon, Catalonia and Valencian Community; Portugal, Georgia , Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Macedonia, and...
(6 May) is Rousse's holiday. A local fair
Fair

A fair is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or funfair entertainment....
is organized for a week around this date.
The Danubian Carnival is a masquerade
Masquerade

Masquerade or Masqueraders may refer to:...
held around 24 June, Enyovden.
The Sexaginta Prista Summer Stage is an urban festival. Events are hosted at the Roman castle every Friday from May through October.
At the end of October are BG MediaMarket and the Bulgarian Europe Media Festival.

Notable citizens

Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born novelist of Sephardi Jewish ancestry who wrote in German language and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981....
, winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature
Albert Aftalion
Albert Aftalion

Albert Abram Aftalion was a France Jewish economist.He taught at the Paris University ....
(1874–1956), French economist and economic situation theoretician
Silvester Maria Braito (1898–1962), Czech catholic Dominican priest, theologian, poet, literary critic, journalist
Michael Arlen
Michael Arlen

Michael Arlen , original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, was an Armenians essayist, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter, who had his greatest successes in the 1920s while living and writing in England....
(1895-1956), original name Dikran Kouyoumdjian, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter
Jules Pascin (1885-1930), painter
Tanyu Kiryakov
Tanyu Kiryakov

Tanyu Kiryakov is a Bulgarian pistol shooter, the only shooter to have won Shooting at the Summer Olympics gold medals in both the 50 metre pistol event and the 10 metre air pistol event, in which he was also the first Olympic champion....
, pistol shooter, Olympic champion
Zdravko Kissiov, poet
Vlad Kolarov
Vlad Kolarov

Vlad Kolarov is an Bulgarian-born Canada cartoonist and humorous illustration. His cartoons have been published by numerous newspapers, magazines and web sites, and are available through the Internet....
, cartoonist
Radi Nedelchev
Radi Nedelchev

Radi Nedelchev is a Bulgarian artist best known as a painter of na?ve art. His paintings depict mostly landscapes, village life and festivals....
, painter
Tonka Obretenova
Tonka Obretenova

Tonka Obretenova , known as baba Tonka , was a female Bulgarian revolutionary, born in 1812, probably in Rousse.Her parents, Toncho Postavchiyata and Minka Toncheva , were from the village of Cherven....
, 19th-century revolutionary
Neshka Robeva
Neshka Robeva

Neshka Robeva is a Bulgarian former Rhythmic Gymnastics and coach.Born in Rousse, Robeva graduated from the Bulgarian State Choreography School in "Bulgarian Dances" in 1966 and since then had been a member of the Bulgarian national rhythmic gymnastics squad until 1973....
, rhythmic gymnastics
Rhythmic gymnastics

Rhythmic gymnastics is a sport in which single competitors or pairs, trios or even more manipulate one or two apparatus: rope , hoop , ball , clubs and ribbon ....
player and coach
Veselin Topalov
Veselin Topalov

Veselin Topalov is a Bulgarian chess International Grandmaster and former FIDE world chess champion.Topalov became the FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005....
, chess player, FIDE world champion 2005-06
Stefan Tsanev
Stefan Tsanev

Stefan Nedelchev Tsanev is a contemporary Bulgarian writer, known for his essays, plays and poems, as well as historical novels.Among his books are Ubiytsite sa mezhdu nas . His plays include Istinskiyat Ivaylo , which was banned....
, writer
Venelina Veneva
Venelina Veneva

Venelina Veneva is a Bulgarian high jumper. Talented at a young age, she jumped 1.93 metres indoor in 1990 to record a world best performance by a 15-year-old....
, high jumper
Orlin Anastassov, opera singer
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha
Alemdar Mustafa Pasha

Alemdar Mustafa Pasha was an Ottoman Empire military commander and a Grand Vizier born in Hotin in Turkish-occupied Ukraine in 1765. Both alemdar and bayraktar mean "the standard bearer" and were the names given to the same rank in the Janissary corps....
Ottoman Grand Vizier

Twin cities

Volgograd

Volgograd , geographical renaming Tsaritsyn and Stalingrad is a types of inhabited localities in Russia and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
Saint-Ouen

Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis

Saint-Ouen is a commune in France of the Seine-Saint-Denis located in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. This ?le-de-France town is located 6.6 km from the Kilometre Zero....
, France

France

Giurgiu

Romania

Peristeri

Peristeri , older forms Peristerio and Peristerion is a suburban municipality in Athens, Greece, located about 5 km NW of the downtown area....
, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....

Huainan
Huainan

})|-| Area| 2,596.4 km?|-| Population| 2,335,798 |-| GDP'- Total'- Per Capita| Renminbi31.4 billion ?13,500 ...
, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....

Honour

Ruse Peak

Ruse Peak is a peak rising to over 800 m in the western extremity of Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Magura Glacier to the south-west and Iskar Glacier to the north-west and to the north....
(800 m) on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands, lying about 120 kilometres north of the Antarctic Peninsula....
, Antarctica

Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, overlying the South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctica of the southern hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean....
is named after the city.

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Rousse

Geography

History

Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Second Bulgarian Empire and Ottoman rule

Liberated Bulgaria

World War II and Communism

Fall of Communism and democratic Bulgaria

Culture

Museums

Religious buildings

Other landmarks

Regular events

Notable citizens

Twin cities

Honour

See also

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