Ruzhintsi ( bg, Ружинци, ; also transliterated ''Ružinci'', ''Ruzhinci'', ''Ruzhintzi'', ''Rujinci'', ''Rujintsi'', ''Rujintzi'', etc.) is a village in northwestern
Bulgaria
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, part of
Vidin Province
Vidin Province () is the northwesternmost province of Bulgaria. It borders Serbia to the west and Romania to the northeast. Its administrative centre is the city of Vidin on the Danube river. The area is divided into 11 municipalities. As of De ...
. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous
Ruzhintsi Municipality, which lies in the southeastern part of Vidin Province. Ruzhintsi is located 54 kilometres from the provincial capital
Vidin
Vidin ( bg, Видин, ; Old Romanian: Diiu) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as ...
and 43 kilometres from
Montana
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.
The village may have been founded in the 14th century. There are several etymologies suggested, two from
Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. Its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. No direct record of Proto-Indo- ...
''*h₁reudʰ-ó-'' ("red"): from ''ruzha'' ("rose") or from the dialectal verb ''oruzhavam'' ("burn down"), and one involving the name of
Fruzhin, son of Bulgarian tsar
Ivan Shishman and organizer of the anti-Ottoman
Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin The Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin ( bg, Въстание на Константин и Фружин, ''Vastanie na Konstantin i Fruzhin'') was the earliest Bulgarian uprising against Ottoman rule. It was organized in the early 15th century by t ...
in the early 15th century. The village church was built in 1852 together with a monastical school.
Municipality
Ruzhintsi municipality has an area of 232 square kilometres and includes the following 10 places:
The municipality is mainly agricultural. The only river that crosses it is the
Lom River
The Lom ( , ) is a river in northwestern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the Danube flowing into it 1 km east of the town of Lom.
The river takes its source from the foot of Midzhur (2,168 m), the highest peak of western Stara Planina, on t ...
, but there are several water reservoirs: at Gyurgich, Drazhintsi and Drenovets, with two smaller ones at Gyurgich and Belo Pole. A sight in the area is the Dobri Dol Monastery, founded in the 11th century.
External links
Ruzhintsi municipality page at the Vidin Province website
Villages in Vidin Province
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