Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river rising in the Carnic Alps of southern Austria and flowing about 725 km (450 mi) eastward through Slovenia and northern Croatia to the Danube River.
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- proper noun a river in southern Central Europe, a tributary of the
Danube
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Examples
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Four hours before dawn on Thursday, March 16, Colonel Florimund DuSossoit Duke and his two subordinates—Major Alfred Suarez and Lieutenant Guy Nunn—feverishly shoveled holes in a forest field near the junction of the Mura and Drava Rivers.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Four hours before dawn on Thursday, March 16, Colonel Florimund DuSossoit Duke and his two subordinates—Major Alfred Suarez and Lieutenant Guy Nunn—feverishly shoveled holes in a forest field near the junction of the Mura and Drava Rivers.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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Drava (ph 02 6256 7777, email financialcoordinator@afp. gov.au.).
- Media Releases from the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs 2002
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Australian Federal Police's Operation Drava can assist anyone who suspects they may hold assets belonging to any person or entity on the list.
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Leopold Stephen Ruzicka* was born on September 3, 1887, in Vukovar, a small Croatian town on the Danube, somewhat east of its confluence with the Drava.
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After the early death of his father in 1891, he returned with his mother to her birthplace, Osijek, on the Drava somewhat west of its junction with the Danube.
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Pesth and the point at which the Drava (or Drau), a noble river, empties its waters into the Danube.
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Octavian, who came to Illyricum in 40 b.c., and subjugated all the tribes; he made the rivers Drava and Danube the northern boundaries of the Roman possessions and sailed on them in his triremes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Croatian ice breakers are clearing the Drava river to ensure the passage of ships.
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In 2006, it was the Danube River, and then, in 2007, it was the Drava and Mura rivers, in Europe.
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