Bosna (river)

The Bosna (Serbian Cyrillic, pronounced [bɔ̂sna]) 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. The river is thought to be the namesake of Bosnia. The river Bosna flows for 282 kilometers (175 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 is associated with the hydronym Bathinus is the Salonitan inscription of the governor of Dalmatia, Publius Cornelius Dolabella, where it is said that the Bathinum river divides the Breuci from the Osseriates. Another name could also have been Basante. 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 bʰegʷ, meaning 'the running water'.

The Bosna River has created the Bosna River Valley. The valley has been developed as the country's industrial hub and is home to nearly a million people, who live primarily in several major cities. The Bosna's source is the Vrelo Bosne spring, located at 520 m (1, 710 ft) a.s.l. (according to an earlier source, 494.5 m (1, 622 ft) a.s.l.) at the foothills of mount Igman, on the outskirts of Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The spring is one of Bosnia and Herzegovina's chief natural landmarks and tourist attractions. The course between the source and its largest tributary in this section, the Željeznica, which runs in from the right, is referred to as the Mala Bosna (transl. Little Bosna), but the section is often extended all the way to its confluence with the Miljacka, four kilometers downstream. Its tributaries between the source and the Željeznica are first the Večerica and then the Bukulaš, while in the region of the extended Mala Bosna course it further receives, first the Željeznica from the right, then approx. 600 meters downstream the Zujevina, th

Flows through: Bosnia and Herzegovina.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.