The Jadar ( sr-Cyrl, Јадар, ) is a river in western
Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
, 75 km long right tributary of the
Drina
The Drina ( sr-Cyrl, Дрина, ) is a long Balkans river, which forms a large portion of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It is the longest tributary of the Sava River and the longest karst river in the Dinaric Alps whic ...
river.
The Jadar also gives the name to the
Jadar region of western Serbia. Also, the mineral
Jadarite
Jadarite is a white, earthy monoclinic silicate mineral, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide ( Li Na Si B3 O7( OH) or Na2OLi2O(SiO2)2(B2O3)3H2O).
Discovery and classification
Jadarite was discovered in December 2004, in drill core from the ...
is named after the river.
River
The Jadar originates from the southern slopes of the
Vlašić mountain, northeast of the town of
Valjevo
Valjevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Ваљево, ) is a List of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative center of the Kolubara District in western Serbia. According to the 2011 census, the administrative area of Valjevo had 90,312 inhabitants, 59,07 ...
, in the northeastern tip of the
Podgorina region. Several streams flow south and join near the village of Osladić. Soon, at the village of Dragijevica, the Jadar turns sharply to the northwest, a general direction the river will follow until it meets the Drina.
The first larger settlement on the river is the regional center of
Osečina
Osečina ( sr-cyr, Осечина, ) is a town and municipality located in the Kolubara District of western Serbia. As of 2011, the population of the town is 2,730, while population of the municipality is 12,571 inhabitants.
Settlements
Apart fr ...
after which the Jadar receives the Pecka river (Cyrillic: Пецка) from the left. After the villages of Komirić, Ravnaja and Mojković, the river receives another important left tributary, the
Likodra river, near the village and former mine of
Zavlaka
Zavlaka () is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Krupanj municipality, in the Mačva District of Central Serbia. The village had a Serb ethnic majority and a population of 962 in 2002.
Historical population
*1948: 1,487
*1953: 1,547
*1 ...
. The Jadar continues next to the villages of Brezovice, Radinac
here it receives another left tributary, the Rakovica River (Cyrillic: Раковица), Brnjaci, Draginac, Bradić, Lipnica, Gornji Dobrić and Kozjak, before it empties into the Drina, near the Straža village, just south of the town of Janja in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Jadar belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, drains an area of 894 km
2 and it is not navigable. The river is notorious for its floods which happen almost on annual basis. The section of the upper course (some 10 km) has been regulated in 1988, but the remaining 20 km until the Jadar's mouth into the Drina still hasn't. Only in 2005 the river spilled over 12 times (see
2005 European floods
The 2005 European floods hit mainly Romania, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, as well as several other countries in Central Europe and Eastern Europe during August 2005. The disaster came at a time when Portugal was suffering from intense forest ...
). The proposed project would also straighten the Jadar's mouth and make it 5 km shorter.
See also
*
Jadar (Serbia)
The Jadar (, ) region begins roughly at the Osečina and it is divided in two sub-regions: Upper Jadar (around Osečina), which is part of much larger region of Rađevina, and Lower Jadar, which is also part of another, larger region of Podrinje. ...
, a region in the river valley
References
Sources
* ''Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija'', Third edition (1985); Prosveta;
* Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): ''Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije''; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; {{ISBN, 86-01-02651-6
Rivers of Serbia