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Meža
The Meža (Slovene language, Slovene) or Mieß (German language, German; ) is a river in the Austrian state of Carinthia (state), Carinthia and in Slovenia, a right tributary of the Drava. It is long, of which are in Slovenia. Its catchment area is , of which in Slovenia. Name The Meža River was attested as ''Mis'' in 1361, ''Mys'' in 1424, and ''Miß'' in 1476. The name is etymologically related to Czech ''Mže'' and the Russian river names ''Mzha'' and ''Mozha'', derived from Slavic ''*mьz′a'' 'dripping, drizzling'. Course It has its source on the Austrian side of the border north of Mount Olševa in the Karawanks range, becomes subterranean a kilometre from its source, and reappears on the surface in Koprivna, Črna na Koroškem, Koprivna west of Črna na Koroškem in Slovenia. From Črna the river turns northwards and flows between the slopes of the Peca (mountain), Peca massif and the St. Ursula Mountain to Mežica and Poljana, Prevalje, Poljana. From here the river aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mislinja (river)
The Mislinja () is a river in the northern part of Slovenia. It is long. It flows through Mislinja (settlement), Mislinja and Slovenj Gradec and empties from the right into the Meža, Meža River north of the village of Otiški Vrh near Dravograd, only a couple hundred meters before the Meža joins the Drava, Drava River. Name The name ''Mislinja'' is derived from the phrase ''*Myslin'a (voda)'' (literally, 'Myslinъ's creek'), thus referring to a person or people living along the watercourse. The hypocorism ''*Myslinъ'' is derived from the personal name ''*Myslь''. The town of Mislinja (settlement), Mislinja is named after the river. Description Flowing from the crest of Pohorje across northern Carinthia to the Drava basin, the Mislinja is a vigorous upland stream—36 km long with a drainage area of 238 km2—that exerts a disproportionately large geomorphology, geomorphic and hydrology, hydrological influence for its modest size. It rises at around 1,150 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carinthia (Slovenia)
Carinthia ( ; ), also Slovene Carinthia or Slovenian Carinthia (''Slovenska Koroška''), is a traditional region in northern Slovenia. The term refers to the small southeasternmost area of the former Duchy of Carinthia, which after World War I was allocated to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs according to the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain. It has no distinct centre, but a local centre in each of the three central river valleys among the heavily forested mountains. Towns that make urban centers include Ravne, Prevalje, Mežica and Dravograd. Since the entry of Slovenia into the European Union in May 2004, much effort has been made to re-integrate Carinthia as a cultural, tourism, and economic unit. The historical region has no official status within Slovenia and does not territorially correspond to today's Carinthia Statistical Region, but popular identification with Carinthia as an informal province remains common. Geography The region lies in the Karawanks mountain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prevalje
Prevalje (; German language, German: ''Prävali'') is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Prevalje. It lies in the traditional Slovenian province of Carinthia, Slovenia, Carinthia. Prevalje lies in a valley where the Meža, Meža River emerges from a narrow gorge, full of fluvioglacial sediments. To the north the town is bounded by the Strojna, Stražišče, and Dolga Brda hills. To the south are ''Navrski vrh'' () and ''Riflov vrh'' (). History The area around Prevalje was settled in prehistoric times, attested by archeological finds which include a bronze axe of the Hallstatt culture. In 1860, approximately 50 Roman marble slabs were found in the riverbed below today's cellulose and cardboard factory at Paloma in Zagrad. The stones belonged to a large tomb on the Roman roads, Roman road from Celje, Celeia to Virunum. At the nearby Brančurnik Inn, a Roman sarcophagus known as the Brančurnik Bench () can be seen. One of the last battles of the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otiški Vrh
Otiški Vrh (, in older sources also ''Otišni vrh'', ) is a dispersed settlement in the hills southeast of Dravograd in the Styria region in northern Slovenia. Geography The Mislinja River joins the Meža River from the right north of the village of Otiški Vrh, only a couple of hundred meters before the Meža joins the Drava River. History In 2004, the settlement of Bukovje was administratively separated from Otiški Vrh. Mass grave Otiški Vrh is the site of a mass grave associated with the Second World War. The Bavh Mass Grave () is located below the Bavh farm in the western part of the settlement, northeast of the main road, on the steep edge of a wooded slope by a large pine tree. It contains the remains of unidentified victims. Church The parish church in the settlement is a pilgrimage church dedicated to Saint Peter. It is built on a hill known as ''Kronska gora'', high above the Mislinja Valley. It is a Baroque building with a two-storey entrance facade and a doub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poljana, Prevalje
Poljana () is a settlement on the left bank of the Meža River in the Municipality of Prevalje in the Carinthia region in northern Slovenia, close to the border with Austria. History Poljana was the site of the Battle of Poljana in May 1945, the last significant clash of arms of World War II in the European theater. Mass grave Poljana is the site of a mass grave from the end of the Second World War. The Poljana Mass Grave () is located southwest of the village, between the road and the Meža River. It contains the remains of an undetermined number of Croatian soldiers killed in the Battle of Poljana and possibly also civilians that were liquidated after the surrender on 15 May 1945. Church The local church is dedicated to John the Baptist. It dates to the early 14th century and is an early Gothic church preserved with very few adaptations. Its internal furnishings date to 1640. It belongs to the Parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian deno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Črna Na Koroškem
Črna na Koroškem (; ) is a town in northern Slovenia. It is the seat of the Municipality of Črna na Koroškem. It lies in the traditional Slovenian province of Carinthia, close to the border with Austria. Since 2005 it has been part of the larger Carinthia Statistical Region. Name The settlement was first attested in written sources in 1309 under the German name ''Swarzenpach'' (and as ''Swartzenpach'' in 1318 and ''Swarczenpach'' in 1470)—all literally 'black creek'. The Slovene name ''Črna'' (literally, 'black') arose through ellipsis from ''*Črna (voda/reka)'' 'Black Creek'. The designation "black" may have referred to water with dark silt, water that flowed through a spruce woods, or deep water with no visible bottom. The stream in question is known as Javorje Creek () today. The name of the settlement was changed from ''Črna'' to ''Črna na Koroškem'' in 1970. In the past the German name was ''Schwarzenbach''. History A chapel at Črna in the Duchy of Carinthia was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peca (mountain)
Petzen (German) or Peca ( Slovene) is the highest mountain of the eastern Karawanks, the second-highest mountain of the Northern Karawanks and the most eastern two-thousand-metre mountain of Slovenia. It is a mighty mountain with a characteristic shape of a tableland with rocky peaks protruding from it. The mountain borders the Meža Valley and the Topla Valley to the south and east, and the Jaun Valley to the north, and is separated by the narrow valley of the Bela Creek from Hochobir. Two thirds of the mountain lies in Austria, and one third in Slovenia. The mountain reaches its highest elevation on the mountain crest of the Kordež Head (Slovene: , German: , ). The border runs across it. The mountain is built of Triassic Wetterstein limestone and Wetterstein dolomite. In the past, lead and zinc was mined on Peca, the shafts belonging to the Topla and Mežica mines. The lead-zinc ore occurs in Middle to Upper Triassic carbonate rocks deposited in an anoxic supratidal mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Most-polluted Rivers
This list contains rivers and other stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...s that have been regarded, currently or historically, as among the most polluted in the world due to their quantity of pollution, the severity of different components of the stream's pollution, its impact on the local population, or a combination of all factors. Africa Asia Europe North America Oceania South America Historically polluted rivers See also * List of most-polluted cities by particulate matter concentration References {{Pollution Pollutants Water pollution Pollution-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carinthia
Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the Carnic Main Ridge, near the Plöcken Pass.The main language is Austrian German, with its non-standard dialects belonging to the Southern Bavarian group; Carinthian dialect group, Carinthian Slovene dialects, forms of a South Slavic languages, Slavic language that predominated in the southeastern part of the region up to the first half of the 20th century, are now spoken by Carinthian Slovenes, a small minority in the area. Carinthia's main Industry (economics), industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry, and agriculture. Name The etymology of the name "Carinthia", similar to Carnia or Carniola, has not been conclusively established. The ''Ravenna Cosmography'' (about AD 700) referred to a Slavic settlement of the Eastern Alps, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Alps
The Eastern Alps are usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley, up to the Splügen Pass at the Main chain of the Alps, Alpine divide, and down the Liro (Como), Liro River to Lake Como in the south. The peaks and mountain passes are lower than the Western Alps, while the range itself is broader and less arched. Geography Overview The Eastern Alps include the eastern parts of Switzerland (mainly Graubünden), all of Liechtenstein, and most of Austria from Vorarlberg to the east, as well as parts of extreme Southern Germany (Upper Bavaria), northwestern Italy (Lombardy), northeastern Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia) and a good portion of northern Slovenia (Upper Carniola and Lower Styria). In the south the range is bound by the Italian Po Valley, Padan Plain; in the north the valley of the Danube River separates it from the Bohemian Massif. The easternmost spur is formed by the Vienna Woods range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carinthia (state)
Carinthia ( ; ; ) is the southernmost and least densely populated Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The Lake Wolayer is a mountain lake on the Carinthian side of the Carnic Main Ridge, near the Plöcken Pass.The main language is Austrian German, with its non-standard dialects belonging to the Southern Bavarian group; Carinthian Slovene dialects, forms of a South Slavic language that predominated in the southeastern part of the region up to the first half of the 20th century, are now spoken by a small minority in the area. Carinthia's main industries are tourism, electronics, engineering, forestry, and agriculture. Name The etymology of the name "Carinthia", similar to Carnia or Carniola, has not been conclusively established. The ''Ravenna Cosmography'' (about AD 700) referred to a Slavic "Carantani" tribe as the eastern neighbours of the Bavarians. In his ''History of the Lombards'', the 8th-century chronicler Paul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919)
The Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye () was signed on 10 September 1919 by the victorious Allies of World War I on the one hand and by the Republic of German-Austria on the other. Like the Treaty of Trianon with Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946), Hungary and the Treaty of Versailles with the Weimar Republic, it contained the Covenant of the League of Nations, Covenant of the League of Nations and as a result was not ratified by the United States but was followed by the US–Austrian Peace Treaty (1921), US–Austrian Peace Treaty of 1921. The treaty signing ceremony took place at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Background As a preamble, on 21 October 1918, 208 German-speaking delegates of the Austrian Imperial Council (Austria), Imperial Council had convened in a "provisional national assembly of German-Austria" at the Palais Niederösterreich, Lower Austrian Landtag. When the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Army culminated at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, the Social D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
