The Little Danube ( Slovak: ''Malý Dunaj'', Hungarian: ''Kis-Duna'',

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: ''Kleine Donau'') is a branch of the

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Danube The Danube ( ; ) is a river that was once a long-standing frontier of the Roman Empire and today connects 10 European countries, running through their territories or being a border. Originating in Germany, the Danube flows southeast for , p ...

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. It splits from the main river near Bratislava, and flows more or less parallel to the Danube until it flows into the river

Váh The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
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in Kolárovo. It is long and its basin size is .Plán manažmentu povodňového rizikavčiastkovom povodí Váhu
p. 72 The part of the Váh between Kolárovo and its confluence with the Danube in

Komárno Komárno, ( hu, Komárom, german: Komorn, sr, Коморан, translit=Komoran), colloquially also called ''Révkomárom, Öregkomárom, Észak-Komárom'' in Hungarian; is a town in Slovakia at the confluence of the Danube and the Váh rivers. ...

is also called ''Váh Danube'' (Slovak: ''Vážsky Dunaj'', Hungarian: ''Vág-Duna''). The

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between the Danube, the Little Danube and the Váh Danube rivers is Žitný ostrov.

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