Svislach (Berezina)
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Svislach River | |
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Location | |
Country | Belarus |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Grodno Region, Belarus |
Mouth | |
• location | Biarezina |
Length | 327 km (203 mi) |
Basin size | 5,160 km2 (1,990 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 30 m3/s (1,100 cu ft/s) |
Svislach, or Svislač[1] (Belarusian: Свіслач, pronounced [ˈsʲvʲisɫatʂ] ) or Svisloch (Russian: Свислочь) is a river in Belarus, a right tributary of the Biarezina river. It is 327 km in length. The name is derived from the root -visl- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin (compare the Vistula River).[2]
Svislach flows through Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
References
- ^ official transliteration
- ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow, 1998), p. 372.
External links
- Media related to Svislach River at Wikimedia Commons
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