Rzav
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Rzav Рзав |
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 Rzav valley near Vardište |
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| location | Bosnia and Herzegovina | |
| River system | Danube | |
| Drain over | Drina → Save → Danube → Black Sea | |
| source | As Crni Rzav in the Zlatibor Mountains near Čajetina on Mount Čigota | |
| muzzle | in Višegrad in the Drina Coordinates: 43 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ N , 19 ° 17 ′ 38 ″ E 43 ° 47 ′ 13 ″ N , 19 ° 17 ′ 38 ″ E
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| length | 72 km | |
| Catchment area | 605 km² | |
| Small towns | Višegrad | |
| Communities | Višegrad ( see Dobrun ) | |
 In the Rzav valley near Dobrun |
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 The Dobrun Monastery |
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The Rzav ( Cyrillic Рзав) is a right tributary of the Drina in the far east of Bosnia and Herzegovina . It arises from the source rivers Beli Rzav ("White Rzav") and Crni Rzav ("Black Rzav") in western Serbia and flows into the Drina in Višegrad .
Other common names for the united river are Veliki Rzav ("Great Rzav") or Zlatiborski Rzav ("Rzav from the Zlatibor").
course
Beli Rzav
The right source river of the Rzav rises in the west of the Serbian National Park Tara on the eastern slope of the Zvijezda Mountains. The source is located south of the town of Bajina Bašta . In the village of Zaovine , the river is dammed to generate energy from hydropower. The Beli Rzav then runs west of the 1544 m high Zborište massif, initially in a southerly direction, before turning west at Kotroman and crossing the Bosnian border.
The Beli Rzav has a length of 23 km and a catchment area of 205 km².
Crni Rzav
The longer left source river arises in the central part of the Zlatibor Mountains near Čajetina on Mount Čigota . In the Zlatibor, it is also dammed up into a reservoir, the 10 km² Ribnica reservoir. The Crni Rzav then runs in narrow, deep valleys in a westerly direction and crosses the Bosnian border at Gornje Vardište. There the river Jablanica joins from the left, before the Crni Rzav at Donje Vardište joins the Beli Rzav.
Rzav
The united Rzav flows beyond Vardište through deeply cut gorges in a westerly direction and first reaches the place Dobrun , which is known for its monastery. Behind Dobrun, the valley opens into a narrow, agriculturally usable plain between the Zvijezda and Suha gora ( Varda ) mountains . In Višegrad the river flows into the Drina; the city lies on a headland between the two waters.
The black and the united Rzav have a total length of 72 km and a catchment area of 605 km². The Rzav is part of the Black Sea catchment area and is not navigable along its entire length.
traffic
The valley of the Rzav represents the most important historical traffic corridor between Bosnia and Serbia in this area. Already in the Ottoman Empire the road connection between Istanbul and the regional center Sarajevo ran through the Rzav gorge; later the bridge over the Drina was built in Višegrad , which shows the great importance of the traffic route. In 1906 the Austrians opened the route of the Bosnian Eastern Railway (Sarajevo – Vardište) along the Rzav and in the 20th century the construction of Magistralstrasse 5 , which in turn connects Bosnia and Serbia.
Several partly dilapidated or completely destroyed watchtowers and fortifications along the Rzav Gorge testify to the importance of the road corridor in different epochs.
Sources and footnotes
- Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije ; Svjetlost-Sarajevo; ISBN 86-01-02651-6
- ↑ Ivo Andrić: The Bridge over the Drina - "Immediately at the end of the city the Rzav flows into the Drina, so that the center of the city and at the same time its main part lies on the sandy headland between the two rivers, the big and the small, who unite here. "
