Pruth

	Prut; (Prut / Прут)
	Course of the Prut
	Data
location	Oblasts Ivano-Frankivsk , Chernivtsi ( Ukraine ), Romania , Moldova
River system	Danube
Drain over	Danube → Black Sea
source	In the Eastern Carpathians , Ukraine from several source streams on the northeast slope of Mount Hoverla ; 48 ° 9 ′ 46 ″ N , 24 ° 33 ′ 15 ″ E
muzzle	at Giurgiulești in the Danube Coordinates: 45 ° 28 '8 " N , 28 ° 12' 26" E 45 ° 28 '8 " N , 28 ° 12' 26" E;
length	953 km (according to other sources 989 km)
Catchment area	27,500 km²
Left tributaries	Racovăț
Right tributaries	Cheremosh , Volovăț , Başeu , Jijia , Pruteț , Elan , Chineja
Big cities	Chernivtsi
Navigable	From Iași to the mouth
	The Prut as a border river between Moldova and Romania near the mouth at Giurgiuleşti

The Prut ( Romanian Prut ; Ukrainian , Russian Прут , Latin Pyretus ) is the second longest tributary of the Danube with 953 km . Its source is in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the Ukrainian Eastern Carpathians near the Romanian border, where the Jablunyzkyj Pass leads over to the headwaters of the Tisza in the Transcarpathian Oblast. The Moldovan-Romanian border completely follows the course of the Prut.

course

The upper reaches of the Prut near Yaremche

The Prut flows from the mountains not far from the Hoverla in the direction of Yaremche and reaches about 100 km east of the source Chernivtsi , the capital of the Chernivtsi Oblast and the historical capital of Bucovina . After another 100 km the course of the Prut turns south and marks the entire border between Romania and the Republic of Moldova . In the hill country of Bessarabia the river meanders strongly. Not far from the city of Iași, it is navigable for the lower 300 km and flows east of Galați (Galatz) at the Moldovan Giurgiulești into the Danube, shortly before it reaches its delta .

Shortly before it flows into the Danube, the river has a water flow of 110 m³ / s.

history

The Peace of the Prut , which Peter the Great had to enter into on July 23, 1711, after his troops had previously been enclosed by the Turks near the town of Huși, is of historical importance .

A century later, on May 28, 1812, the Peace of Bucharest was concluded in Bucharest between Emperor Alexander I and the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II , which ended the eighth Russo-Turkish War (1806-1812). With that, Russia received one half (east of the Prut) of the Principality of Moldova, later Bessarabia . From 1812 the border between the Ottoman and Russian empires no longer ran on the Dniester , but 200 km further west on the Prut. For this gain of territory, Russia renounced the Ottoman-ruled Danube principalities of Moldavia (west of the Prut) and Wallachia.

literature

Ludwig Adolf Staufe-Simiginowicz : The Pruthtal in Galicia and Bukowina , 1896.

Web links

Commons : Pruth - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Article Pruth in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)

[gse-1] Article Pruth in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)