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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 Czech part of the river is located within the Šumava National Park. Among the common species of fish in the Studená Vltava are river trout, rainbow trout, grayling, brook trout, European chub, common dace and European bullhead. Several other species are occasionally found, such as northern pike, European eel, zander and European perch. [4]
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 rapids were part of the inspiration for Smetana's Má vlast, [1] and also the title of an opera by Josef Richard Rozkošn ...
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