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The Elbe near Dömitz The River Elbe (Czech : Labe ⓘ German : die Elbe ; Low German : de Ilv ) is one of the major rivers of Central Europe . It originates in the Krkonoše Mountains of northwestern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (Czech Republic ), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven , 110 km northwest of Hamburg . Its total length is 1,094 kilometres (680 mi).
The Elbe’s major tributaries include the Vltava , Saale , Havel , Mulde , Schwarze Elster , and Ohre rivers.
The Elbe River basin, comprising the Elbe and its tributaries, has a catchment area of 148,268 square kilometres (57,247 sq mi), the fourth largest in Europe. The basin spans four countries, with its largest parts in Germany (65.5%) and the Czech Republic (33.7%). Much smaller parts lie in Austria (0.6%) and Poland (0.2%). The basin is inhabited by 24.5 million people.
Geography
The federal state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany Mountains : Harz - Brocken - List of mountains and hills of Saxony-Anhalt - List of mountains in the Harz
Rivers : Aland - Aller - Bode - Dosse - Eine - Elbe - Hassel - Havel - Helme - Holtemme - Ilse - Jeetzel - Luppbode - Mulde - Ohre - Rappbode - Saale - Salzwedel Dumme - Schlenze - Schwarze Elster - Tanger - Unstrut - White Elster - Wipper - Wustrow Dumme - Zillierbach
Important cities and towns : Magdeburg - Aschersleben - Bernburg (Saale) - Bitterfeld-Wolfen - Blankenburg (Harz) - Burg - Calbe (Saale) - Dessau-Roßlau - Eisleben - Freyburg (Unstrut) - Gardelegen - Genthin - Gernrode - Halberstadt - Haldensleben - Halle (Saale) - Havelberg - Hettstedt - Jessen (Elster) - Kalbe (Milde) - Klötze - Köthen (Anhalt) - Leuna - Merseburg - Naumburg (Saale) - Oebisfelde - Oschersleben (Bode) - Quedlinburg - Salzwedel - Sangerhausen - Schönebeck (Elbe) - Staßfurt - Stendal - Tangerhütte - Tangermünde - Thale - Weißenfels - Wernigerode - Wittenberg - Zeitz - Zerbst/Anhalt
Regions : Altmark - Harz - Saale-Unstrut Region
Landscapes : Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Eastphalia - Fläming - Geisel valley - Harz Foreland - Magdeburg Börde
Districts and independent towns : Anhalt-Bitterfeld - Altmarkkreis Salzwedel - Börde - Burgenlandkreis - Dessau-Roßlau - Harz - Halle (Saale) - Jerichower Land - Magdeburg - Mansfeld-Südharz - Saalekreis - Salzlandkreis - Stendal - Wittenberg
History
Nebra sky disc History : Nebra sky disc - Thietmar of Merseburg - Eike von Repgow - Province of Saxony - Anhalt - Province of Halle - Province of Magdeburg - Albert the Bear - Cardinal Albert - Reformation - Ascania - Fruitbearing Society
Historic people : Henry the Fowler - Otto I - Otto II - Otto III - Margrave of Gero - Leopold III Frederick Franz - Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Maria of Masovia - Samuel Hahnemann - Otto von Guericke
World Heritage Sites : Castle and Old Town of Quedlinburg - Luther sites in Eisleben and Wittenberg - Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm - Bauhaus Dessau
Transport, Tourism and Media
Aqueduct near Magdeburg Transport : America Line - Elbe - Elbe–Havel Canal - Halberstadt–Blankenburg railway - Halle–Cottbus railway - Havel - Leipzig/Halle Airport - Magdeburg S-Bahn - Magdeburg Water Bridge - Mittelland Canal - Quedlinburg station - Stendal Central Station - Tangermünde station - Uelzen station - Wittenberge station
Tourism : Romanesque Road - Arendsee - Via Regia
Media : MDR - Sputnik
Personlities
Lucas Cranach d. Ä., 1550 Art : Lucas Cranach - Wassily Kandinsky - Paul Klee
Philosophy : Friedrich Schleiermacher - Christian Thomasius - Christian Wolff - Philip Melanchthon
Pedagogy : Johann Bernhard Basedow - August Hermann Francke
Literature : Clemens Brentano - Gottfried August Bürger - Johann Gleim - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock - Carl Immermann - Wilhelm Müller - Novalis .
Technology : Hans Grade - Hugo Junkers
Medicine : Dorothea Erxleben - Johann Christian Reil
Music : Heinrich Schütz - Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - Georg Friedrich Händel - Carl Friedrich Abel - Kurt Weill - Tokio Hotel - Lied für Sachsen-Anhalt - Handel Festival, Halle
Religion : Martin Luther - Justus Jonas - Johannes Bugenhagen - Mechthild of Magdeburg - Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen - Erzbischof Wichmann
Politics : Otto von Bismarck - Wolfgang Böhmer - Hans-Dietrich Genscher
TV : Dieter Hallervorden
Miscellaneous:
Magdeburg hemispheres Sport : Stefan Kretzschmar - SC Magdeburg - 1. FC Magdeburg (List of 1. FC Magdeburg players ) - Hallescher FC - Germania Halberstadt - Erich Rademacher - Gustav-Adolf Schur - Waldemar Cierpinski - 1. FC Aschersleben - Bischofswerdaer FV 08 - FC Oberlausitz Neugersdorf
Folk festivals :
Miscellaneous : Magdeburg hemispheres
