:''See also Turiec (Sajó).'' The Turiec (, ) is a

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

in north-western

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. It is a tributary to the

Váh The Váh (; , ; ; Wag
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, into which it flows near the city of

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. Its source is in the

Veľká Fatra Veľká Fatra (; also Great Fatra or Greater Fatra; ) is a mountain range in the Western Carpathians in Slovakia. The Veľká Fatra lie to the southeast of the better known Malá Fatra, Malá (Lesser) Fatra mountains and are less developed, as we ...

Mountains. It is long and its basin size is . The Turiec region is named after this river.

Etymology

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 79), known in English as Pliny the Elder ( ), was a Roman Empire, Roman author, Natural history, naturalist, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the Roman emperor, emperor Vesp ...

associated the name with ''Durius'' (the ancient name of Upper

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Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...

with the Celtic

Taurisci The Taurisci were a federation of Celtic tribes who dwelt in today's Carinthia and northern Slovenia (Carniola) before the coming of the Romans (c. 200 BC). According to Pliny the Elder, they are the same as the people known as the Norici. Et ...

tribe. The name is probably derived from the Indo-European appellative ''tur-'' (, ). The root is used also in a broad sense - "rich" or "strong". The Hungarian name ''Turóc'' comes from the ancient Slavic form ''Turъcь'' (1113 ''Turc'').

Fauna

There were recorded 18 species of molluscs in Turiec river. That includes 8 species of freshwater gastropods and 10 species of freshwater bivalves.

References

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