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The Vltava (/ ˈ v ʊ l t ə v ə, ˈ v ʌ l-/ VU(U)L-tə-və, [1] [2] [3] Czech: ⓘ; German: Moldau ⓘ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It runs southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague. It is commonly referred to ...
Vyšehrad above the Vltava River. The first poem, Vyšehrad (The High Castle), composed between the end of September and 18 November 1874 and premiered on 14 March 1875 at the [Prague] Philharmonic, [6] describes the Vyšehrad castle in Prague which was the seat of the earliest Czech kings. During the summer of 1874, Smetana began to lose his ...
Moldau is a German name for: the Vltava river in the Czech Republic; ... "Vltava", a symphonic poem by Bedřich Smetana; See also. Moldavia (disambiguation)
River names are mostly self-standing one-word nouns. Stream names often consist of two words because they contain an adjective (usually stemming from physical properties (e.g. Černý potok – "black stream"), usage (e.g. Mlýnský potok – "mill stream") or derived from the location through which it flows (e.g. Rakovnický potok ...
The rapids were part of the inspiration for Smetana's Má vlast, [1] and also the title of an opera by Josef Richard Rozkošný (Svatojánské proudy). [ 2 ] References
In the Czech Republic, a rising Morava River had put Litovel, a town 230 km (140 miles) east of the capital Prague, around 70% under water and shut down schools and health facilities, its mayor ...
The Studená Vltava originates in the territory of Haidmühle in the Bavarian Forest at an elevation of 961 m (3,153 ft) and flows to the Pěkná exclave of the Nová Pec municipality, where it merges with the Teplá Vltava River at an elevation of 731 m (2,398 ft) and continues as Vltava. It is 24.7 km (15.3 mi) long, of which 7.7 km (4.8 mi ...
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