Váh
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| Váh | |
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| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. The Váh near Piešťany. | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. The current and watershed of the Váh from its Čierny Váh (Southern) and Biely Váh (Northern) sources until it enters the Danube (magenta) | |
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| Native name | Template:Native name checker |
| Location | |
| Country | Slovakia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | Danube River |
• location | Komárno |
• elevation | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| Length | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
Basin size | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • minimum | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • average | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| • maximum | Template:Infobox river/calcunit |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Template:RDanube |
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The Váh (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".;[1] Template:Langx;[2][3] Template:Langx[4]) is the longest river within Slovakia. Towns on the river include Liptovský Hrádok, Liptovský Mikuláš, Ružomberok, Vrútky, Žilina, Bytča, Považská Bystrica, Púchov, Ilava, Dubnica nad Váhom, Nemšová, Trenčín, Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Piešťany, Hlohovec, Sereď, Šaľa, Kolárovo and Komárno.
Etymology
The name is of Germanic or Slavic origin. It could be derived from old Germanic wȃg (stream) or proto-Slavic vagъ, vaga (pole, stick, carved branch) referring to reinforced riverbanks. Several Slavic river names with a similar motivation exist, but pre-Slavic origin of larger rivers in Slovakia is assumed in general.[5] The earliest mentions are flumen Vvaga (1111) and aqua Vvac' (1113).[5]
Geography
A left tributary of the Danube river, the Váh is 406 kilometres (252 mi) long, including its Čierny Váh branch. Its two sources, the Biely Váh (White Váh) and the Čierny Váh (Black Váh), are located in the Vysoké Tatry (High Tatras) and Nízke Tatry (Low Tatra) mountains, respectively, and it flows over northern and western Slovakia and finally feeds into the Danube near Komárno at the border. The left tributaries are Demänovka, Revúca, Ľubochnianka, Turiec, Rajčanka and Nitra rivers, and the right tributaries are Belá, Orava, Varínka, Kysuca, Biela voda, Vlára, Dubová, Dudváh and Malý Dunaj rivers. In late medieval time it was a property of Stibor of Stiboricz and his son Stibor of Beckov of the Clan of Ostoja, later passing to Maurice Benyovszky as a gift of Maria Theresa.
The Váh includes canals, artificial dams (Čierny Váh, Liptovská Mara, Bešeňová, Krpeľany, Žilina, Hričov, Nosice, Sĺňava, Madunice, Kráľová and Selice) and 16 hydropower stations, whose construction started in the 1930s and increased after World War II. The main Slovak limited-access motorway is along the Váh (Bratislava – Trenčín – Považská Bystrica – Žilina and Ružomberok – Poprad), as well as the main railway Bratislava – Žilina – Košice.
References
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- ^ The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. 1970. Template:ISBN
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kocsis, Károly (2001). "Towns in Slovakia with absolute Hungarian majority". Ethnic Geography of the Hungarian Minorities in the Carpathian. p. 73. ISBN 1-931313-75-X. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Felbermann, Louis (1892). Hungary and Its People. Retrieved 2008-07-02.
- ^ Wag w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (in Geographical Dictionary of Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries).
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Krško, Jaromír (2009). "Praslovanské apelatíva ako motivanty hydroným povodia Váhu" (PDF). Slavica Slovaca (in slovenčina) (1): 12.
Sources
External links
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