Southern Bug
| Southern Bug | |
| Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh | |
| River | |
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| Country | Ukraine |
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| Mouth | |
| - location | Bug Estuary, Ukraine |
| Length | 806 km (501 mi) |
| Basin | 63,700 km2 (24,595 sq mi) |
 Southern Bug through Ukraine
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The Southern Bug, also called Southern Buh,[1] (Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh: Russian: Yuzhny Bug, Yuzhny also spelled Iuzhnyi: Polish: Boh)),[1] is a river located in Ukraine. The source of the river is in the west of Ukraine, in the Volyn-Podillia Upland, about 145 km from the Polish border, and flows southeasterly into the Bug Estuary (Black Sea basin) through the southern steppes. It is 806 kilometres (501 mi) long and drains 63,700 km².
Its name may be related to the proto-Germanic "Bug" which is translated as "bow", the name having been given by Goths, who arrived here in 2-3 centuries AD. During the Migrations Period the Southern Buh was an important obstacle to all the migrating tribes. Major cities on the Southern Bug: Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv.
[edit] Etymology
(Ukrainian: Південний Буг, Pivdennyi Buh; Polish: Boh; Russian: Южный Буг, Yuzhny Bug, Ottoman Turkish: Aksu)
Herodotus refers to it as ancient Greek: Hypanis.[2]
Its name may be related to the proto-Germanic "Bug" which is translated as "bow", the name having been given by Goths,[citation needed] who arrived here in 2-3 centuries AD.
[edit] Gallery
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Confluence of the rivers Southern Buh and Inhul in Mykolaiv.
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The Ploska River emptying into the Southern Bug.
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Southern Bug, Vinnytsia
[edit] External links
- Southern Buh rafting
- (Polish) Boh in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1880)
- (Russian) Photos of the Southern Buh coasts
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[edit] References
- ^ a b "Encyclopædia Britannica: Southern Buh (River)". Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/556686/Southern-Buh. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
- ^ The Histories, Herodotus p.165
