SAVE, or SAVA (Ger. Sau; Hungarian Szdva;

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• LAT

Lat. Savus)  , one of the principal right-bank affluents of the Danube . It runs almost parallel with the other great tributary of the Danube, the Drave, both having about the same length . The Save rises in the Triglav group in Carniola from two sources, the Wurzener Save and the Wocheiner Save, which join at Radmannsdorf . It then takes a south-easterly course, and flows through Carniola and Croatia-Slavonia—forming from Jasenovac the frontier-line between it and Bosnia and Servia—and joins the Danube at Belgrade . The Save has a length of 442 m., the area of its basin being 34,000 sq. m . It is navigable for steamers from Sissek to its mouth, a distance of 36o m., but navigation is greatly hindered by shifting sandbanks and other obstructions . Its principal affluents are, on the right, the Sora, Laibach, Gurk, Kulpa, Una, Vrbas, Bosna and Drina; and on the left, the Kanker, Feistritz, Sann, Sotla, Krapina, Lonjaand Orljava .