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The Ipeľ (Slovak; pronounced [ˈipeʎ]) or Ipoly (Hungarian) (German: Eipel, archaic Slovak: Jupoľ, Latin: Bolia[1][2]) is a 232-kilometre (144 mi) long river in Slovakia and Hungary, a tributary of the Danube River. Its source is in central Slovakia in the Slovak Ore Mountains. It flows south to the Hungarian border, and then southwest, west, and again south along the border until it flows into the Danube near Szob.
| Ipeľ | |
|---|---|
 Ipeľ river near Šahy | |
  Current and watershed of the Ipeľ River in Slovakia and Hungary | |
| Native name | |
| Location | |
| Countries | Slovakia and Hungary |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Lom nad Rimavicou, Slovakia |
| Mouth | Danube River |
• location | Chľaba/Szob |
• coordinates | 47°49′06″N 18°50′55″E / 47.8182°N 18.8485°E |
| Length | 232 km (144 mi) |
| Basin size | 5,151 km2 (1,989 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | mouth |
| • average | 21 m3/s (740 cu ft/s) |
| • minimum | 3 m3/s (110 cu ft/s) |
| • maximum | 70 m3/s (2,500 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Tisovník, Krtíš, Krupinica, Štiavnica |
| Progression | Danube→ Black Sea |
The Ipeľ flows through or creates the border of the Banská Bystrica and Nitra regions in Slovakia, and Nógrád and Pest counties in Hungary.
Towns and villages
editThe following towns and villages are situated on the river, in downstream order:
- Poltár (SK)
- Kalinovo (SK)
- Boľkovce (SK)
- Ipolytarnóc (HU)
- Litke (HU)
- Nógrádszakál (HU)
- Szécsény (HU)
- Balassagyarmat (HU)
- Ipolyvece (HU)
- Ipeľské Predmostie (SK)
- Šahy (SK)
- Vámosmikola (HU)
- Pastovce (SK)
- Ipolytölgyes (HU)
- Salka (SK)
- Letkés (HU)
- Ipolydamásd (HU)
- Szob (HU)
See also
editNotes and references
edit- ^ Pohl, W. (1980). "Die Gepiden und die Gentes an der mittleren Donau nach dem Zerfall des Attilareiches". In Wolfram, Herwig; Daim, Falko (eds.). Die Völker an der mittleren und unteren Donau im fünften und sechsten Jahrhundert. Berichte des Symposions der Kommission für Frühmitel-lalterforschung 24. bis 27. Oktober 1978, Stift Zwettl, Niederösterreich (in German). Vienna, Austria: Kommission für Frühmittelalterforschung, Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 239–305, page 266. ISBN 978-3-7001-0353-0.
- ^ Wolfram, Herwig (1990). "The Ostrogothic Kingdom in Pannonia". History of the Goths. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. p. 264. ISBN 978-0-520-06983-1.
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