Mureș (river)
Mureș / Maros Mieresch, Marosch |
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The Mureș near Arad |
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location | Districts of Harghita , Mureș , Alba , Hunedoara , Arad ( Romania ), Hungary |
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River system | Danube | |
Drain over | Tisza → Danube → Black Sea | |
source | in the Eastern Carpathians in Harghita County 46 ° 36 ′ 55 ″ N , 25 ° 37 ′ 2 ″ E |
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Source height | 850 m | |
muzzle |
Tisza near Szeged Coordinates: 46 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ N , 20 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ E 46 ° 15 ′ 6 ″ N , 20 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ E |
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Mouth height | 75 m | |
Height difference | 775 m | |
Bottom slope | 1 ‰ | |
length | 761 km, (according to other sources 883 km) |
on Romanian territory |
Catchment area | 27,832 km² | |
Discharge at the Arad gauge |
MQ |
177 m³ / s |
Left tributaries | Târnava , Sebeş , Strei | |
Right tributaries | Arieș , Geoagiu , Ampoi | |
Big cities | Arad , Târgu Mureș , Szeged | |
The Mureș in Romania and Hungary |
The Mureș ( German Mieresch or Marosch ; Hungarian Maros ; in ancient times, Greek Μάρισος Marisos or Μάρις Maris , Latin Marisus ) is a river in Romania and Hungary with a length of 761 kilometers (on Romanian territory). It rises at an altitude of 850 m above sea level in the Eastern Carpathians in Harghita County (on the northern slope of the Harghita Mountains on the Tincan Pass ) and then crosses the Mureș County of the same name .
The left Tisza tributary flows through the country in a south-westerly direction. At the border between the Mureș, Alba and Cluj districts , it takes the Arieș ( Aranyos in Hungarian ) from the right and the Kokel ( Târnava in Romanian , Küküllő in Hungarian ) from the left 13 km northeast of Alba Iulia , and enters a plain near Arad where it It forms swamps and flows into the Tisza at Szeged . The lower course is the border river between Hungary and Romania for around 15 kilometers. The river has a catchment area of 27,832 km² in Romania and a water flow of 177 m³ / s in Arad.
Places on the Mureș
- Aiud (German Strasbourg am Mieresch , Hungarian Nagyenyed )
- Alba Iulia (German Karlsburg , Hungarian Gyulafehérvár )
- Arad
- Cenad (German Tschanad , Hungarian Csanád )
- Deva (German Diemrich , Hungarian Déva )
- Geoagiu (German Gergesdorf , Hungarian Algyógy )
- Lipova (German Lippa , Hungarian Lippa )
- Luduș (German Ludasch , Hungarian Marosludas )
- Makó (German Makowa )
- Nădlac (German Nadlak , Hungarian Nagylak )
- Ocna Mureș (German Miereschhall , Hungarian Marosújvár )
- Reghin (German: Saxon Regen , Hungarian: Szászrégen )
- Târgu Mureș (German Neumarkt am Mieresch , Hungarian Marosvásárhely )
- Toplița (German Töplitz , Hungarian Maroshévíz )
- Zam (German Sameschdorf , Hungarian Zám )
Tributaries of the Mureș
- Arieș (Hungarian Aranyos ),
- Târnava (German Kokel , Hungarian Küküllő )
- Geoagiu
- Sebeș (German Mühlbach )
Web links
Hydrological information for the Mureş catchment area ( Memento from May 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Administraţia Bazinală de Mures APA. (PDF; 1.6 MB) Retrieved August 20, 2020 (Romanian).
- ↑ Article Муреш (река) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ↑ Information on the Apele Române website accessed on August 20, 2020 (Romanian).