Svitavka
Sign in to saveThe Svitavka (also called Svitávka; ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Germany, a right tributary of the Ploučnice. It flows mostly through the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic, but it originates in Saxony in Germany. It is long.
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The Svitavka (also called Svitávka; ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Germany, a right tributary of the Ploučnice. It flows mostly through the Liberec Region in the Czech Republic, but it originates in Saxony in Germany. It is long.
==Etymology== The name referred to the clear water of the river and was derived from svítat, which meant '[be] clear' in Old Czech. Svitavka/Svitávka is a diminutive form of Svitava (a village, today a part of Cvikov). The river was called Svitávka until the 1990s, when it was officially renamed Svitavka, but it is still often called Svitávka.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Svitavka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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