Žabljak is a river near

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in Western Bosnia,

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. It flows for roughly 6.6 kilometers westward through Livanjsko Polje before its confluence with the Bistrica, just upstream from beginning of its section with artificially created riverbed, from where river begins to turn southward toward Buško Blato. This stretch of the Žabljak, like all rivers in the southeastern half of Livanjsko Polje, is regulated. For 3.8 kilometers from its wellspring to the bridge on highway Livno-Split (M107/M16), where remains of an old bridge called "Rimski Most" (literally English: Roman Bridge) can also be found, the Žabljak runs unregulated, and from the bridge to its confluence with Bistrica, 2.8 kilometers, the riverbed is regulated. Before the regulation, required for development of

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and irrigational system Buško Blato, the river joined Bistrica and Sturba to make the Plovuča river, which than continued flowing westward through

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until disappearing within main

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called "Veliki Ponor"* ''()'' at the foot of

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mountain.

Note

*''*English:'' "Grand Ponor" (''ponor = sinkhole, estavelle''; like ''polje'', ''ponor'' too is borrowed word from Serbo-Croatian languages, mostly through western research of Dinaric Karst since early days of modern

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and

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References

Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina Buško Blato basin Livanjsko polje {{BosniaHerzegovina-river-stub