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Taurach (other)
Taurach may refer to the following rivers in the Austrian state of Salzburg: *Northern Taurach The Northern Taurach (german: Nördliche Taurach), also called the Pongau Taurach (german: Pongauer Taurach), is a river of the state Salzburg in Austria. Its drainage basin is . The Northern Taurach is a right-hand tributary of the Enns near Ra ... (German: ''Nördliche Taurach'' or ''Pongauer Taurach''), tributary of the Enns in the Low Tauern mountains * (German: ''Südliche Taurach'' or ''Lungauer Taurach''), tributary of the Mur in the Low Tauern {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Taurach
The Northern Taurach (german: Nördliche Taurach), also called the Pongau Taurach (german: Pongauer Taurach), is a river of the state Salzburg in Austria. Its drainage basin is . The Northern Taurach is a right-hand tributary of the Enns near Radstadt. It is one of the two rivers named Taurach, both of which rise near the Radstädter Tauern Pass Radstädter Tauern Pass (el. 1,738 m or 5,702 ft) is a high mountain pass in the Austrian state of Salzburg, connecting the town of Radstadt in the Pongau region with Mauterndorf in Lungau. Geography The pass separates the Radstadt Tauern ..., but drain in opposite directions – the other is called . The two valleys, which descend from the Tauern Pass, are also both called Taurach Valley ('). Together they link the Enns valley to the Mur valley in north–south direction. The Northern Taurach is about long and thus considerably shorter than the Southern Taurach, but has a greater height difference from source to mouth of ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enns (river)
The Enns (, ) is a southern tributary of the river Danube, joining northward at Enns, Austria. The Enns spans , in a flat-J-shape. It flows from its source near the village Flachau, generally eastward through Radstadt, Schladming, and Liezen, then turns north near Hieflau, to flow past Weyer and Ternberg through Steyr, and further north to the Danube at Enns (''see map in References''). "Karte-Enns" (river map in German), RadTouren.at (Austria), May 2009, webpage: (236kb). Name It was known in Latin as ''Anisus'' or ''Anasus'', of uncertain origin; Anreiter et al. tried to link it to an Indo-European *''on''- and the hydronymic suffix *''-is-''. Later sources call it ''Ensa'' or ''Enisa''. Others have linked it to Upper Danubian Vasconic *''an'', "water." Another possible link is Greek ᾰ̓νῠστός (''anystos'', "useful"). The West Slavic languages have different names for the river: in Czech it is called the ''Enže''; in Slovak, the ''Enža''; and in Polish, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |