Rustchuk, a town in Bulgaria, on the Danube, 40 m. S. by W. of Bucharest; manufactures gold and silver ware, shoes, cloth, &c.; has a number of interesting mosques; its once important fortifications were reduced in 1877.
Population (circa 1900) given as 27,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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