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Rhine with maps and details of navigation through the French section; places, ports and moorings, by the author of Inland Waterways of France, Imray; Navigation details for 80 French rivers and canals (French waterways website section) Old maps of the Rhine, from the Eran Laor Cartographic Collection, The National Library of Israel
Most of the vineyards belong to the wine region Mittelrhein, but the southernmost parts of the Rhine Gorge fall in Rheingau and Nahe. The river has been an important trade route into central Europe since prehistoric times and a string of small settlements has grown up along the banks. [1]
Name used in the default map caption; image = Rhine_watershed_closer.gif The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 53.56 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 46.48 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 4 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 12.02 Longitude at right ...
Rhine Valley (German: Rheintal [ˈʁaɪ̯nˌtaːl] ⓘ) is the valley, or any section of it, of the river Rhine in Europe. Particular valleys of the Rhine or any of its sections: Alpine Rhine Valley. Chur Rhine Valley (or Grisonian Rhine Valley; German: Churer Rheintal, or sometimes Bündner Rheintal) between Reichenau and Sargans, East Switzerland
The Rhine is one of the busiest waterways in the world. The Middle Rhine Valley is the gap in the Rhenish Slate Mountains and forms a bottleneck due to its tight curves and shallows. To improve the safety of shipping, the Middle Rhine Warning System [ de ] was created which uses light signals to guide ships through the dangerous passages.
Total length of waterways per country in kilometers. This is a list of waterways, defined as navigable rivers, canals, estuaries, lakes, or firths.In practice, and depending on the language, the term "waterway" covers maritime or inland transport routes, as suggested by "way".
1540: the map Lacus Constantiensis by Johannes Zwick and Thomas Blarer shows topographic names, towns and the Rhine. [citation needed] 1555: the map of the route of the Rhine (Rhinelaufkarte) by Caspar Vopel includes a topographical map of Lake Constance with its larger towns, the tributaries and the course of the Rhine. [citation needed]
Around 1790, large parts of the Rhine Valley were deforested, creating arable land, fields and pasture to feed the population. The Upper Rhine was straightened between 1817 and 1876 by Johann Gottfried Tulla and changed from a relatively sluggish meandering river with major and many smaller branches into a fast flowing stream flanked by ...