Orava (river)
The Orava (Template:Langx) is a river in north-western Slovakia 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 near the village of Kraľovany. It is Template:Convert long and its basin size is Template:Convert.<ref>Plán manažmentu povodňového rizikavčiastkovom povodí Váhu, p. 72</ref>
EtymologyEdit
The name "Orava" may be of Pre-Slavic or Slavic origin. Pre-Slavic *er-/*or-: fast, swift (swift river).<ref name="majtan-rymut">Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Proto-Slavic *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 Croatian river Orljava (1234 Orauua), the Ukrainian river and the village Oriava or Orzawiec (in the river system of Dnieper).<ref name="varsik">Template:Cite book</ref> The suffix -ava could be derived from Germanic -ahwa (water), but it is typical also for older Slovak hydronyms.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The earliest records are fl. Arua (1287) and Oravia (1314).<ref name="majtan-rymut"/>
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