Argeș (river)
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Argeș Argish |
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| location | Districts Argeș , Dâmbovița , Ilfov , Giurgiu , Călărași ( Romania ) | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | At Căpățânenii Pământeni ( Făgăraș Mountains ) 45 ° 33 ′ 46 ″ N , 24 ° 36 ′ 15 ″ E |
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| Source height | 2140 m | |
| muzzle | near Oltenița in the Danube Coordinates: 44 ° 3 ′ 31 ″ N , 26 ° 37 ′ 1 ″ E 44 ° 3 ′ 31 ″ N , 26 ° 37 ′ 1 ″ E |
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| Mouth height | 12 m | |
| Height difference | 2128 m | |
| Bottom slope | 6.1 ‰ | |
| length | 350 km (according to other sources 335 km) | |
| Catchment area | 12,550 km² (according to other sources 12,400 km²) | |
| Drain |
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73 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Dâmbovița | |
| Right tributaries | Neajlov | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Vidraru reservoir | |
| Big cities | Pitesti | |
| Medium-sized cities | Curtea de Argeș , Oltenița | |
| Small towns | Găeşti , Bolintin-Vale , Mihăileşti , Budeşti | |
 The Argeș in Romania |
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The Argeș ( ; German Argisch ) is a left tributary of the Danube in Romania .
It rises in the Făgăraş Mountains ( Southern Carpathians ) and flows in a southerly direction through the Getische Plateau or through Curtea de Argeş (German Argisch ), Piteşti , Găeşti , Domneşti and Budeşti and flows into the Danube at Oltenița . Shortly after the headwaters, the river is dammed ( Vidraru reservoir ). The river has a length of 350 km, a catchment area of 12,550 km² and (shortly from its confluence with the Danube) a water flow of 73 m³ / s.
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The riverbed of the Argeş, from the castle Poenari seen
View of the old river bed of the Argeș, from the Vidraru dam
Map of the Battle of the Argesch (1916)
Web links
Commons : Argeș - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Detailed presentation of the Argeș-Vedea catchment area , accessed on December 9, 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 12.4 MB).
- ↑ a b Article Argeș in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ^ Johann Christian von Engel: General World History , Johann Jacob Gebauer, Halle, 1804. Online at Google Books
- ↑ Information from the Dâmbovița district council ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 9, 2015 (Romanian; PDF; 3.8 MB).