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1 Longest rivers. 2 References. ... Major rivers of Romania Hydrographical map of Romania. The length and drainage area represent only the part of the river within ...
The Olt (Romanian and Hungarian; German: Alt; Latin: Aluta or Alutus, Turkish: Oltu, Ancient Greek: Ἄλυτος Alytos) is a river in Romania. [1] [2] It is 615 km (382 mi) long, and its basin area is 24,050 km 2 (9,290 sq mi). [2] [3] It is the longest river flowing exclusively through Romania
The Argeș (Romanian pronunciation: ⓘ) is a river in Southern Romania, a left tributary of the Danube. [1] [2] It is 350 km (220 mi) long, and its basin area is 12,550 km 2 (4,850 sq mi). [2] [3] Its source is in the Făgăraș Mountains, in the Southern Carpathians and it flows into the Danube at Oltenița.
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The Olt River 615 kilometres (382 mi) is the longest river that is fully within Romania's national borders. Romania's rivers primarily flow east, west, and south from the central crown of the Carpathians. They are fed by rainfall and melting snow, which causes considerable fluctuation in discharge and occasionally catastrophic flooding. In the ...
Bridge over Bega (Begej) river near Žitište Bega (Begej) between Klek, Zrenjanin and Žitište in Serbia. The Bega or Begej (Romanian: Bega; Serbian: Бегеј / Begej; German: Bega; Hungarian: Béga, formerly Kistemes), is a 244 km (152 mile) long river in Romania (169 km; 105 mi.) and Serbia (75 km; 47 mi.).
The river is known to be first mentioned by Herodotus in 485 BC bearing the name Maris (Μάρις). [5] Strabo calls it Marisos (Μάρισος). [ 6 ] It was known in Latin as the Marisus ; the Mureș is also mentioned, as Morisis (Μορήσης), in a document of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII , in 948 AD.
In particular, there seems to exist disagreement as to whether the Nile [3] or the Amazon [4] is the world's longest river. The Nile has traditionally been considered longer, but in 2007 and 2008 some scientists claimed that the Amazon is longer [5] [6] [7] by measuring the river plus the adjacent Pará estuary and the longest connecting tidal ...