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The Bosna is a river that flows through Bosnia and Herzegovina in southeastern Europe. It is significant as a major waterway in the region and plays an important role in the geography and ecology of the country.
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- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Vue de ZENICA depuis la rivière BOSNA.jpg
- Length
- 281.6
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- tributary
- Fojnica river
- watershed area
- 10500
- discharge
- 142
- origin of the watercourse
- Vrelo Bosne
- Commons category
- Bosna River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Sava
- category for the water basin
- Category:Bosna basin
- basin country
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bosna (Serbian Cyrillic: Босна, pronounced [bɔ̂sna]) is the third longest river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is considered one of the country's three major internal rivers, along with the Neretva and the Vrbas. The other three major rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the Una, to the northwest; the Sava, to the north, and the Drina, to the east. The river is thought to be the namesake of Bosnia. The river Bosna flows for 282 kilometers (175 mi).
The river is possibly mentioned for the first time during the 1st century AD by Roman historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus under the name Bathinus flumen. Another basic source that is associated with the hydronym Bathinus is the Salonitan inscription of the governor of Dalmatia, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, where it is said that the Bathinum river divides the Breuci from the Osseriates. Another name could also have been Basante.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bosna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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