Jiu River
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- This article is about the Romanian river Jiu. Jiu is also the Chinese word for alcoholic beverages, see: Chinese wine.
The Jiu (Latin: Rabon; Hungarian: Zsil) is a river of southern Romania. It is formed near Petroşani by the confluence of two streams: the western and the eastern Jiu (which rise from the Vâlcan and Parâng Mountains)
It flows southward through the Romanian counties Hunedoara, Gorj and Dolj before flowing into the Danube a few kilometers upstream from the Bulgarian city of Oryahovo, 331 kilometers from its sources. It has a basin of 10,070 km².
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[edit] Affluents
- Şuşiţa
- Jaleş
- Sadu
- Tismana
- Jilţ
- Motru
- Gilort
- Amaradia
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Tributaries (list): Iller · Lech · Regen · Isar · Inn · Morava · Drava · Tisza · Sava · Timiş · Velika Morava · Jiu · Iskar · Olt · Osam · Yantra · Vedea · Argeş · Ialomiţa · Siret · Prut
