The Glan (; sl, Glina) is a river in
Carinthia,
Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
, a right tributary of the
Gurk. It is long.
Its
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
is .
It rises north of the
Wörthersee
Wörthersee (; Slovene: ''Vrbsko jezero'', en, Lake WörthTesch, F. W. 1977. ''The Eel: Biology and Management of Anguillid Eels''. Transl. Jennifer Greenwood. London: Chapman and Hall, p. 195.) is a lake in the southern Austrian state of Carin ...
in the
Ossiach Tauern
The Ossiach Tauern (german: Ossiacher Tauern, sl, Osojske Ture, locally just ''Turje'') is a wooded mountain ridge in the Austrian state of Carinthia between Lake Ossiach in the northwest and the Wörthersee in the southeast. The highest poin ...
, then running through
Feldkirchen, going northeastwards passing the castle
Burgruine Glanegg
Burgruine Glanegg is a castle in Carinthia, Austria. After Hochosterwitz and Fortress Landskron, is the third largest military complex in Carinthia.
History
The history of the castle is first documented in 1121. The first owner was the Duke ...
until it reaches
Sankt Veit where it bends sharply towards south. It flows through the
Zollfeld
Zollfeld ( sl, Gosposvetsko polje) is a slightly ascending plain in Carinthia, Austria. It is one of the oldest cultural landscapes in the East Alpine region.
Geography
It is from to wide and about long, with an elevation between above sea ...
Valley, the historical heart of the
Carinthian duchy, and through
Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt am WörtherseeLandesgesetzblatt 2008 vom 16. Jänner 2008, Stück 1, Nr. 1: ''Gesetz vom 25. Oktober 2007, mit dem die Kärntner Landesverfassung und das Klagenfurter Stadtrecht 1998 geändert werden.'/ref> (; ; sl, Celovec), usually ...
, the state capital. At
Ebenthal southeast of Klagenfurt is the confluence with the
Glanfurt
Glanfurt is a river of Carinthia, Austria. Its drainage basin is .
The Glanfurt is also called ''Sattnitz'' by the Carinthian people. It is the outflow of the Wörthersee. It starts at the lake's eastern bay, south of the peninsula Maria Loretto ...
River, the Glan bends eastwards and finally flows into the river Gurk.
It was first mentioned as ''Glana'' in a deed of donation issued by Emperor
Otto II
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at the 983
Reichstag in
Verona
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...
.
The name derives from
Celtic
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Sports Fo ...
(
Noric) meaning "bright, clear", cf.
Glanis
Glanis was a Gaulish god associated with a healing spring at the town of Glanum in the Alpilles mountains of Provence in southern France. There are cisterns at the site of the springs where pilgrims may have bathed. Near one of them an altar to Gl ...
,
Glanum
Glanum (Hellenistic ''Γλανόν'', as well as Glano, Calum, Clano, Clanum, Glanu, Glano) was an ancient and wealthy city which still enjoys a magnificent setting below a gorge on the flanks of the Alpilles mountains. It is located about one kil ...
,
Glen and
English
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"clean".
References
Rivers of Carinthia (state)
Rivers of Austria
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