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DRAVE, or DRAVA (Ger. Drau, Hung. Dra...

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 550 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DRAVE, or DRAVA (Ger. Drau, Hung. Drava, See also:Lat. Dravus)  , one of the See also:principal right-See also:bank affluents of the See also:Danube, flowing through See also:Austria and See also:Hungary . It rises below the Innichner See also:Eck, near the Toblacher Feld in See also:Tirol, at an See also:altitude of a little over 4000 ft., runs eastward, and forms the longest See also:longitudinal valley of the See also:Alps . The See also:Drave has a See also:total length of 45o m., while the length of its Alpine valley to See also:Marburg is 15o m., and to its junction with the Mur 25o m . Owing to its See also:great extent and easy accessibility the valley of the Drave was the principal road through which the invading peoples of the See also:East, as the See also:Huns, the Slays and the See also:Turks, penetrated the Alpine countries . The Drave flows through See also:Carinthia and See also:Styria, and enters Hungary near Friedau, where up to its confluence with the Danube, at Almas, 14 m . E. of See also:Esseg, it forms the boundary between that See also:country and Croatia-Slavonia . At its mouth the Drave attains a breadth of 1055 ft. and a See also:depth of 20 ft . The Drave is navigable for rafts only from See also:Villach, and for steamers from Bares, a distance of 95 m . The principal affluents of the Drave are: on the See also:left the Isel, the Gunk, the Lavant, and the largest of all, the Mur; and on the right the See also:Gail and the Drann .

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