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All or almost all rivers in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some rivers have also undergone
name changes Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions. In general, common law jurisdictions have loose procedures for a name chan ...
for political or other reasons. This article provides known alternative names for all major European rivers. It also includes alternative names of some lesser rivers that are important because of their location or history. This article does not offer any opinion about what the "original", "official", "real", or "correct" name of any river is or was. Rivers are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. The English version is followed by variants in other languages, in alphabetical order by name, and then by any historical variants and former names. Foreign names that are the same as their English equivalents may be listed, to provide an answer to the question "What is that name in...?". __NOTOC__


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Exonym and endonym An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, o ...
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List of rivers of Europe This article lists the principal rivers of Europe with their main tributaries. Scope The Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Europe and Asia, border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and U ...
* Latin names of European rivers *
List of alternative country names Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign stat ...
* List of country names in various languages * List of European regions with alternative names * List of European cities with alternative names * List of Latin place names in Europe * List of places


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Place names of Europe
Rivers A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wat ...
Rivers A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wat ...
Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located enti ...
*List of European rivers with alternative names Малхъ