Editing Váh (section)

==Geography==
A left [[tributary]] of the [[Danube]] river, the Váh is {{convert|406|km|mi}} long, including its Čierny Váh branch. Its two sources, the ''Biely Váh'' (White Váh) and the ''Čierny Váh'' (Black Váh), are located in the [[Vysoké Tatry]] (High Tatras) and [[Nízke Tatry]] (Low Tatra) mountains, respectively, and it flows over northern and western Slovakia and finally feeds into the Danube near [[Komárno]] at the [[border]]. The [[Left tributary|left tributaries]] are Demänovka, Revúca, Ľubochnianka, [[Turiec River (Váh)|Turiec]], [[Rajčanka]] and [[Nitra River|Nitra]] rivers, and the [[Right tributary|right tributaries]] are [[Belá River|Belá]], [[Orava River|Orava]], Varínka, [[Kysuca]], Biela voda, Vlára, Dubová, [[Dudváh]] and [[Malý Dunaj]] rivers. In late medieval time it was a property of [[Stibor of Stiboricz]] and his son Stibor of Beckov of the [[Clan of Ostoja]], later passing to [[Maurice Benyovszky]] as a gift of [[Maria Theresa]].

It includes canals, artificial dams ([[Čierny Váh]], [[Liptovská Mara]], Bešeňová, Krpeľany, [[Žilina Dam|Žilina]], Hričov, [[Nosice]], [[Sĺňava]], Madunice, [[Kráľová]] and Selice) and 16 hydropower stations, whose construction started in the 1930s and increased after [[World War II]]. The main Slovak [[Motorway D1 (Slovakia)|limited-access motorway]] is along the Váh ([[Bratislava]] – [[Trenčín]] – [[Považská Bystrica]] – [[Žilina]] and [[Ružomberok]] – [[Poprad]]), as well as the main railway Bratislava – Žilina – [[Košice]].