Thaya
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The Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a right tributary of the Morava River. It flows through the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic and through Lower Austria in Austria. It is formed by the confluence of the German Thaya and Moravian Thaya rivers. Together with the German Thaya, which is its main source, the Thaya is long. Without the German Thaya, it is long. In the Czech Republic, the Thaya is the seventh longest river in the country with a length of .
Key facts
- River.name
- Thaya
- River.name_other
- Dyje
- River.image
- Břeclav, Dyje.JPG
- River.image_caption
- The Thaya in Břeclav
- River.source1
- German Thaya
- River.source1_location
- Schweiggers
- River.mouth_location
- Morava
- River.subdivision_type1
- Countries
- River.subdivision_type2
- Regions/States
- River.length_km
- 311
- River.discharge1_avg
- near the estuary
- River.basin_size_km2
- 13419
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Czech Republic
- Located in
- Waidhofen an der Thaya District
- Continent
- Europe
- Image
- Národní park Podyjí Dyje Nationalpark Thayatal 2013 10 a.jpg
- Length
- 235.4
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- category for the water basin
- Category:Thaya basin
- Commons category
- Thaya
- mouth of the watercourse
- Morava
- watershed area
- 13419
- partially coincident with
- Austria–Czech Republic border
- origin of the watercourse
- Moravian Thaya
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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The Thaya (, ) is a river in the Czech Republic and Austria, a right tributary of the Morava River. It flows through the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic and through Lower Austria in Austria. It is formed by the confluence of the German Thaya and Moravian Thaya rivers. Together with the German Thaya, which is its main source, the Thaya is long. Without the German Thaya, it is long. In the Czech Republic, the Thaya is the seventh longest river in the country with a length of .
==Etymology== Both the names Thaya and Dyje have their origin in the Illyrian word 'duja', which can be translated as 'rushing river'. The first written mention of Thaya is from 985, when the name was written as Taja.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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