Rus

Rus is the village of residence of the commune of the identical call in Salaj county, Transylvania, Romania. The town of Rus is placed in the northeastern a part of Salaj county, on the Somes Valley, at a distance of 34 kilometers from the town of Dej, 60 kilometers from the city of Baia Mare and 70 kilometers from the town of Zalau. The first documentary attestation of the village dates from 1325 underneath the name of Symisne. The archaeological discoveries exhibit an older settlement.

In the Roman technology, this territory was a part of the area of ​​the Roman protection system of the province of Dacia, inside the quarter among the castles Tihau and Caseiu, in the shielding zone against the unfastened Dacians, who lived north of Somes. Around 1350 the Banffy own family colonized right here the Slavic populace, from which the call of the agreement additionally comes. In the year 1366 the locality is attested below the present day name, written inside the shape Wruzmesu, Field of Russian. In 1388 it appears inside the shape of Oruzmesu.