The Rižana is a river in Slovenia. It has also been known as the Risano. It was known as the Formio in Latin.
| Rižana | |
|---|---|
 The Rižana in the village of Rižana | |
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | Slovenia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Assumption Church in Bezovica |
| • elevation | 73 metres (240 ft) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Gulf of Trieste |
• coordinates | 45°33′29″N 13°44′02″E / 45.558127°N 13.733910°E |
• elevation | 0 metres (0 ft) |
| Length | 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) |
| Basin size | 202 km2 (78 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 4.6 m3/s (160 cu ft/s) |
Geography
editThe village of Rižana is located upon it. Its mouth is on or near the Gulf of Trieste of the Adriatic Sea. The Škocjan Lagoon Nature Reserve is a park area of wetlands where the Rižana and Badaševica rivers used to flow into the sea.[1]
Name
editThe Rižana was attested in historical sources as Rusano c. 670, Riziano c. 804, Risano in 1135, and Garzignana in 1569, among other spellings. The origin of the name is pre-Slavic and is probably related to the Illyrian toponym Ῥιζάνα Rhizana, reflected in the Montenegrin toponym Risan. The name is probably derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *erei̯H- 'to flow'.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Škocjanski Zatok Nature Reserve". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ^ Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 356.
Further reading
edit- Blažević, Marija (1986). "Istarske rijeke" [Istrian Rivers]. Priroda: popularni časopis hrvatskog prirodoslovnog društva. Vol. 72, no. 8. pp. 228–231. ISSN 0351-0662.
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