Bosnia (river)
| Bosna | |
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.jpg) The Bosna River flowing through Zenica.
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| Country | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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| Cities |
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| Source | Vrelo Bosne |
| - location | Igman, Ilidža, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| - coordinates | 43°49′6.6″N 18°16′11.9″E / 43.818500°N 18.269972°E |
| Mouth | Sava |
| - location | Bosanski Šamac, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| - coordinates | 45°4′0″N 18°28′1″E / 45.06667°N 18.46694°ECoordinates: 45°4′0″N 18°28′1″E / 45.06667°N 18.46694°E |
| Length | 271 km (168 mi) |
| Basin | 10,457 km2 (4,037 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| - average | 174 m3/s (6,145 cu ft/s) |
The river Bosna (pronounced [bɔ̂sna]) (Cyrillic: Босна) is the third longest river in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is considered one of the country's three major internal rivers, along with the Neretva and the Vrbas; the other three major rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina are the Una, to the northwest, the Sava, to the north, and the Drina, to the east. It is the namesake of Bosnia. The Bosna flows for 271 kilometers (168 mi).
The river is possibly mentioned for the first time during the 1st century AD by Roman historian Marcus Velleius Paterculus under the name Bathinus flumen. Another basic source that are associated with the hydronym Bathinus is the Salonitan inscription of the governor of Dalmatia, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, where it's said that the Bathinum river divides the Breuci from the Osseriates. According to philologist Anton Mayer the name Bosna could be derived from Illyrian Bass-an-as(-ā) which would be a diversion of the Proto-Indo-European root *bhoĝ-, meaning "the running water".
The Bosna river also makes up the Bosna River Valley, the country's industrial center and home to close to a million people, as well as the location of several major cities. The river's biggest tributaries are the Željeznica, Miljacka, Fojnica, Lašva, Gostović, Krivaja, Usora, and Spreča rivers.
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