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The border of Europe and Asia is here defined as from the Kara Sea, along the Ural Mountains and Ural River to the Caspian Sea.While the crest of the Caucasus Mountains is the geographical border with Asia in the south, Georgia, and to a lesser extent Armenia and Azerbaijan, are politically and culturally often associated with Europe; rivers in these countries are therefore included.
1.4 Europe. 1.5 Asia. ... This is a List of international river borders. Rivers that form any portion of the border between two countries minimum: By region
13,000 m 3 /s (460,000 cu ft/s) [2] The Rhine[note 2] (/ raɪn / RYNE) [3] is one of the major European rivers. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms the Swiss-Liechtenstein border and partly the Swiss-Austrian and Swiss-German borders. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German ...
The Oder (/ ˈoʊdər / OH-dər, German: [ˈoːdɐ] ⓘ; Czech, Lower Sorbian and Polish: Odra; [ a ] Upper Sorbian: Wódra [ˈwʊtʁa]) is a river in Central Europe. It is Poland's second-longest river in total length and third-longest within its borders after the Vistula and its largest tributary Warta. [ 1 ]
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...
European watershed. Coordinates: 61°28′N 37°46′E. Main European drainage divides (red lines) separating catchments (green regions). The main European watershed is the drainage divide ("watershed") which separates the basins of the rivers that empty into the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea from those that feed the ...
The border remained relatively stable until the annexation of the Three Bishoprics Metz, Toul and Verdun by King Henry II in 1552 and the occupation of the Duchy of Lorraine by the forces of King Louis XIII in 1633. Its lower Belgian portion, part of the sillon industriel, was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe. [7]
In Frankfurt an der Oder, an ironic sign reads, “Frankfurt Oder/Slubice – no borders.” Slubice is the Polish town across the fast-flowing Oder river that marks the beginning of German ...