Rhine

The Rhine ( ) is one of the major rivers of Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Swiss-Austrian border. From Lake Constance downstream, it forms part of the Swiss-German border. After that the Rhine defines much of the Franco-German border. It then flows in a mostly northerly direction through the German Rhineland. Finally, the Rhine turns to flow predominantly west to enter the Netherlands, eventually emptying into the North Sea. It drains an area of 185,000 km2.

ancient Germanic tribe

cultural landscape in the Middle Rhine, part of the World Heritage of UNESCO

1945 operation, part of a coordinated set of Rhine crossings during WWII

historical site in Germany

thumb|right|Pothole thumb|right|Viamala in a drawing by J. W. Goethe; 1 June 1788 thumb|300px|Tourist access at the gorge

military operation

landscape of Rhine valley between Nahe mouth and Bonn

section of the river Rhine between Basel in Switzerland and Bingen in Germany

seasonal floods in Europe caused by torrential rain.

thumb|upright=1.2|The three Rhinemaidens at play in the waters of the Rhine. Illustration from Stories of the Wagner Opera by [[H. A. Guerber, 1905.]] The Rhinemaidens are the three nixies sisters (Rheintöchter or "Rhine daughters") who appear in Richard Wagner's opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. Their individual names are Woglinde, Wellgunde and Flosshilde, although they are generally treated as a single entity and they act together accordingly. Of the 34 characters in the Ring cycle, they are the only ones who did not originate in the Old Norse Eddas. Wagner created his Rhinemaidens

canal in France

1999 photography of the Rhine river by Andreas Gursky

river in Switzerland

international organization

sinkholes seeping water from the Danube for about half the year, and transferring a part of them to the Aachtopf

glacier in Switzerland

The Seerhein (; cf. Rheinsee) is a river about long, in the basin of Lake Constance (). It is the outflow of the Upper Lake Constance and the main tributary of the Lower Lake Constance. The water level of the Lower Lake is about below the level of the Upper Lake. It is considered part of the river Rhine, which flows into Lake Constance as the Alpine Rhine and flows out of the Lower Lake as the High Rhine.

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part of Obersee, the larger of the two lakes of Lake Constance

1842 travel guide by Victor Hugo

Ferndorfbach (vulgarly known as the Ferndorf) is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows through Kreuztal and joins the Sieg in Siegen-Weidenau. Its name relates to the village of Ferndorf, the oldest medieval part of Kreuztal town.

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Name of several bends in the Rhine River

firework in Germany

personification or river god of the Rhine

Source in Switzerland

part of Rhine river north of Bonn, Germany

treaty

beluga whale, subject of a media sensation in 1966

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1813 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition

sculpture erected in Duisburg-Neuenkamp in 1992