The Vit also Vid ( bg, Вит; la, Utus) is a river in central northern
Bulgaria with a length of 188 km. It is a tributary of
Danube. The source of the Vit is in
Stara Planina
The Balkan mountain range (, , known locally also as Stara planina) is a mountain range in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Southeastern Europe. The range is conventionally taken to begin at the peak of Vrashka Chuka on the border betw ...
, below
Vezhen Peak
Vezhen ( bg, Вежен ) is a peak in the western Balkan Mountains, located in western Bulgaria. At Vezhen is the 77th highest mountain in Bulgaria. It is situated in the Teteven mountain. Its slopes mark the border of the Tsarichina Reserve. Ar ...
at an altitude of 2,030 m, and it empties into the
Danube close to
Somovit. The river has a watershed area of 3,228 km
2, its main tributaries being
Kamenska reka
Kamenska is an uninhabited village in Požega-Slavonia County, Croatia. Kamenska is administered as a part of the Brestovac, Croatia, Brestovac municipality. The village is connected by the D38 (Croatia), D38 state road.
Demographics
According to ...
,
Kalnik and
Tuchenitsa.
Towns on or close to the river include
Teteven,
Pleven
Pleven ( bg, Плèвен ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest ...
,
Dolni Dabnik,
Dolna Mitropoliya and
Gulyantsi. At Teteven, the river is formed by the confluence of Beli Vit () and Cherni Vit ().
The river's name comes from
Thracian *''ūt'', a word for "water" (cf. Greek ὕδωρ, ''hudōr'').
Vit Ice Piedmont in
Antarctica is named after the river.
References
Rivers of Bulgaria
Landforms of Lovech Province
Landforms of Pleven Province
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