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Alzette
Sign in to saveThe Alzette (; ; ) is a river with a length of in France and Luxembourg. It is a right tributary of the Sauer (a tributary to the Moselle), and ultimately to the Rhine.
Key facts
- River.name
- Alzette
- River.image
- Luxembourg BW 2016-09-15 12-44-12.jpg
- River.image_caption
- The Alzette winding through Grund, Luxembourg
- River.map
- Alzette.png
- River.map_caption
- Course of the Alzette
- River.source1_location
- Thil
- River.mouth
- Sauer
- River.mouth_location
- Ettelbruck
- River.subdivision_type1
- Countries
- River.tributaries_left
- Mess, Pétrusse, Eisch, Attert, Wark
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- Commons category
- Alzette
- mouth of the watercourse
- Sauer
- topic's main category
- Category:Alzette
- watershed area
- 1172
- category for the water basin
- Category:Tributaries of the Alzette
- native label
- Alzig
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Encyclopedic overview
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The Alzette (; ; ) is a river with a length of in France and Luxembourg. It is a right tributary of the Sauer (a tributary to the Moselle), and ultimately to the Rhine.
It rises in Thil near the town Villerupt in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département, France. It crosses the border with Luxembourg after . At Lameschmillen (near Bergem) it is joined by the Mess. It flows through the Luxembourgish towns Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg City and Mersch, and empties into the Sauer near Ettelbruck.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alzette” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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