Ruad
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Ruad may refer to:
- ArwadArwadArwad – formerly known as Arado , Arados , Arvad, Arpad, Arphad, and Antiochia in Pieria , also called Ruad Island – located in the Mediterranean Sea, is the only inhabited island in Syria. The town of Arwad takes up the entire island...
, a small waterless island off the coast of Tortosa, Syria - Fall of RuadFall of RuadThe Fall of Ruad in 1302/3 was one of the culminating events of the Crusades in the Eastern Mediterranean. When the garrison on the tiny Isle of Ruad fell, it marked the loss of the last Crusader outpost on the coast of the Levant...
, battle around 1300 between the Egyptian Mamluks and the Crusaders - Áed Rúad, High King of medieval Irish legend
- Ruad, Old Irish term for red, as in Red BranchRed BranchThe Red Branch is the name of two of the three royal houses of the king of Ulster, Conchobar mac Nessa, at his capital Emain Macha , in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology...
- Ruad, a Celtic goddess, rescued by the dwarf poet AbcánAbcánAbcán was the dwarf poet of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the early Celtic divinities of Ireland. He was said to have a bronze boat with a tin sail.In the story of the death of the goddess, Ruad, Abcán is the dwarf that ferries her from the other world to this one so that she can seduce the human, Aed...