Ruda ' is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 in the administrative district of Gmina Sędziszów Małopolski, within Ropczyce-Sędziszów County

Ropczyce-Sedziszów County

Ropczyce-Sędziszów County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, south-eastern Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is...

, Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Subcarpathian Voivodeship

Podkarpackie Voivodeship , or Subcarpathian Voivodeship, is a voivodeship, or province, in extreme-southeastern Poland. Its administrative capital and largest city is Rzeszów...

, in south-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of Sędziszów Małopolski, 8 km (5 mi) north-east of Ropczyce

Ropczyce

Ropczyce is a town in Subcarpathian Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland, situated in the Valley the Wielopolka River and is inhabited by 15,098 people . It is the seat of Ropczyce-Sędziszów County.-Geography:...

, and 26 km (16 mi) north-west of the regional capital Rzeszów

Rzeszów

Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...

. Ruda lies on the Tuszymka river

Tuszymka

Tuszymka is a river in south-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Wisłoka river, with a length of . The source of the river is near the village of Bukowiec. The river runs near the village of Kamionka where there is a lake.-Towns and villages around Tuszymka:...

, a tributary of the Wisłoka river. In the past this area was known for iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

 smelting

Smelting

Smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes iron extraction from iron ore, and copper extraction and other base metals from their ores...

 and iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is a metal in the first transition series. It is the most common element forming the planet Earth as a whole, forming much of Earth's outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth's crust...

 goods. In fact, the name of the village ‘Ruda’ (Polish

Polish language

Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...

:‘ruda’ ≈ red) comes from the red iron ore which was mined in this area.

The village has a population of 300.