Timavo

	Timavo
	The Timavo at its northern origin
	Data
location	Friuli Venezia Giulia , Italy
River system	Timavo
River basin district	Alpi Orientali
origin	Confluence of three source streams below San Giovanni al Timavo ; 45 ° 47 ′ 11 ″ N , 13 ° 35 ′ 14 ″ E
muzzle	in a bay of the Gulf of Trieste Coordinates: 45 ° 46 '48 " N , 13 ° 34' 52" E 45 ° 46 '48 " N , 13 ° 34' 52" E;
length	2 km

The Timavo is a two kilometer long river near Monfalcone in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy .

geography

One of the three sources of Timavo

It rises below the town of San Giovanni al Timavo , located between Monfalcone and Duino , from four large karst springs , and, after having merged with the Canale Locavez halfway through the route , flows as Foce del Timavo into the Golfo di Panzano , a bay of the Gulf of Trieste .

With a length of 2 km, the Timavo is one of the shortest rivers in the world. However, this only appears to be the case. Because the Timavo flows to Škocjan in Slovenia as Reka a good 50 kilometers above ground, and through the Škocjan Caves , a UNESCO World Heritage, 35 kilometers underground through the karst area. The underground course is largely unknown from a cave lake at a depth of 160 m. Water measurements show that there are further underground tributaries from the Karst (Kras, Carso) , but Reka water could also go more directly to the Mediterranean.

history

San Giovanni al Timavo was a famous place in Roman times. The port of Lacus Timavi used to be here . The Roman poet Virgil described Timavo. This is the place where Jason's Argonauts and Aeneas' companions are said to have landed on their flight from Troy. The first survivors are said to have landed here even after the flood, whereupon one of the four angels who proclaim the Last Judgment with their trumpets appeared to them. Also in the Tabula Peutingeriana are Fontes Timavi recorded.

In the source area, the consul Sempronius Tuditanus had the tabula triumphalis and a statue erected to commemorate his victory in 129 BC. BC in Aquileia , with the following inscription: [ac (?) Per (?) Ma] re (?) Rt Tauriscos. C [arnosque ---] / [in montib] us coactos m [(approx. 10 letters .) ac (?) Iapudes] / [diebus te] r quineis qua [ter ibei super] avit [sueis] / [fausteis] signeis consi [lieis Semproni] os Tudita | nus. / [Ita Roma] e egit triumpu [m aedemque] dedit Tim | avo / [(approx. 9 letters)] ria ei restitu [it ac magist] reis tradi | t.

literature

Hans Hofmann-Montanus: The world without light . Josef Habbel, Regensburg 1952.
C. Cicuta: Il Timavo . In: SOTTO IL CARSO . Anno II, N ° 2. Gorizia 1982, p. 24-45 .
G. Crevatin, A. Fabbricatore, P. Guglia: The Timavo Project . In: UIS-Cave Diving . No. 4 , 1992, pp. 10 ff .

Web links

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

The Trieste Caves
Tourist information portal Karst ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Timavo misterioso: scoperta a Duino la quarta “bocca” - Cronaca - Il Piccolo . In: Il Piccolo . November 13, 2012 ( gelocal.it [accessed October 13, 2017]).
↑ According to most information, the shortest river in the world is the Roe River at Great Falls in Montana (USA) with a length of 61 meters.
↑ Hidden Treasures in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Eds. Mariagrazia Santoro and Norma Zamparo - 2009), p. 252.
^ Renate Lafer, Karl Strobel: Antike Lebenswelten: Ancient historical and papyrological studies . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-038683-7 , p. 111.

[1] Timavo misterioso: scoperta a Duino la quarta “bocca” - Cronaca - Il Piccolo . In: Il Piccolo . November 13, 2012 ( gelocal.it [accessed October 13, 2017]).

[2] According to most information, the shortest river in the world is the Roe River at Great Falls in Montana (USA) with a length of 61 meters.

[3] Hidden Treasures in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Eds. Mariagrazia Santoro and Norma Zamparo - 2009), p. 252.

[4] Renate Lafer, Karl Strobel: Antike Lebenswelten: Ancient historical and papyrological studies . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-038683-7 , p. 111.