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Dolný Kubín
Dolný Kubín (; also known by other names) is a town in northern Slovakia in the Žilina Region. It is the historical capital and the largest settlement of the Orava region.
Names
The name is derived from the archaic Slovak word meaning a "gla ...
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Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
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Orava reservoir, taking water from ''White Orava'' in Slovakia and from ''Black Orava'' in Poland
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Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
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Váh
The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów ...
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Kraľovany
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The Orava ( hu, Árva) is a
river
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 wate ...
in north-western
Slovakia
Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...
passing through a picturesque country, in the
Orava county. Its source is nowadays the
Orava water reservoir whose waters flooded the confluence of Biela (White) Orava and Čierna (Black) Orava in 1953. It flows into the river
Váh
The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
w Słowniku geograficznym Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów ...
near the village of
Kraľovany. It is long and its basin size is .
Etymology
The name "Orava" may be of Pre-Slavic or
Slavic origin. Pre-Slavic ''*er-/*or-'': fast, swift (swift river).
Proto-Slavic
Proto-Slavic (abbreviated PSl., PS.; also called Common Slavic or Common Slavonic) is the Attested language, unattested, linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed proto-language of all Slavic languages. It represents Slavic speech approximately ...
''*or-'', ''*orati'': to scream, to roar. Slovak rivers ''Revúca'' and ''Hučava'' have the same etymology (a roaring river). The similar names from other Slavic countries are e.g. the
Croatia
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n river
Orljava (1234 Orauua), the
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
river and the village
Oriava
Oriava ( uk, Оря́ва, pl, Orawa) is a village (''selo'') in Stryi Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. Village Oriava is located in the Ukrainian Carpathians, within the limits of the Eastern Beskids ( Skole Beskids ) in southern Lviv ...
or ''Orzawiec'' (in the river system of
Dnieper
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The Dnieper () or Dnipro (); , ; . is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe, rising in the Valdai Hills near Smolensk, Russia, before flowing through Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea. It is the longest river of Ukraine and B ...
).
The suffix ''-ava'' could be derived from
Germanic ''-ahwa'' (water), but it is typical also for older
Slovak hydronyms.
The Hungarian name ''Árva'' is a phonetic adaptation similar to ''Okol > Akol'', ''Okoličná > Akalichna'', ''Obuš > Abos'' , etc.
The earliest records are ''fl. Arua'' (1287) and ''Oravia'' (1314).
References
External links
Orava on Geonames
Rivers of Slovakia
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