Rügen

[ roo-guh n; German ry-guh n ]

/ ˈru gən; German ˈrü gən /

an island in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, off the NE coast, in the Baltic Sea. 358 sq. mi. (926 sq. km).

Example sentences from the Web for rugen

In the end they landed at Rugen, and, abandoning their ships, began to march overland.

The Danish History, Books I-IX |Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")
I had a bad fall in Rugen, which we thought nothing of at the time.

Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 |Augustus J. C. Hare
An attendant appeared, one of the faithful Kernsberg ten to whom so much had been committed upon the Isle Rugen.

Joan of the Sword Hand |S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
Next they took the Isle of Rugen from him, which shuts up the harbor.

History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.) |Thomas Carlyle

This cetacean was obtained on the coast of the island of Rugen, in the Baltic.

Parasites |T. Spencer Cobbold