Glanfurt is a river of
Carinthia
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,
Austria
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. Its
drainage basin
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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 and runs more like a channel straight to the east. It passes
Viktring Abbey
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, an old monastery which is now a suburb of Carinthia's capital
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 ...
, and finally flows into the
Glan near the market town of
Ebenthal. In summer it is the southern recreation area of Klagenfurt with a number of opportunities for free bathing and a bicycle track along the river.
The river was to become a national borderline following the
Paris Peace Conference, 1919,
which then had not been established according to the results of the 1920
Carinthian Plebiscite.
References
Rivers of Carinthia (state)
Rivers of Austria
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