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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A river rising in the eastern Czech Republic and flowing about 365 km (225 mi) generally southward to the Danube River near Bratislava, Slovakia.
  • A river of eastern Serbia rising in two forks and flowing about 209 km (130 mi) north-northwest to the Danube River east of Belgrade.

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  • proper noun a river in Central Europe, through Moravia, a tributary of the Danube

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Examples

  • Continuing our way down the rich valley of the Morava, which is here several miles wide, and might contain ten times the present population, we arrived at Csatsak, which proved to be as symmetrically laid out as Poshega.

    Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844. Andrew Archibald Paton 1842

  • Secondly, today, after the mass in Brno, he said he wants people in Morava (the Eastern, Catholic part of Czech republic) to continue with their traditional catholic culture and devotion (it holds its position very strongly there, making cardinal Vlk unhappy - no communion in the hand there, for example).

    Bohemian thoughts... 2009

  • Korca is situated at the foot of the Morava mountains, on the slopes of St. Thana hill, it was an Illyrian settlement in an - cient times.

    I am going to Korca 2005

  • In my research I met a delightful woman, Helene Baine Cincebeaux, who is the editor of Morava Krasna, a Moravian heritage newsletter, and Slovakia, a Slovak heritage newsletter.

    Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003

  • In my research I met a delightful woman, Helene Baine Cincebeaux, who is the editor of Morava Krasna, a Moravian heritage newsletter, and Slovakia, a Slovak heritage newsletter.

    Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003

  • In my research I met a delightful woman, Helene Baine Cincebeaux, who is the editor of Morava Krasna, a Moravian heritage newsletter, and Slovakia, a Slovak heritage newsletter.

    Celebration Breads BETSY OPPENNEER 2003

  • Even Marcus Aurelius, who wrote about most things under the sun, has little to say of the country north of his stronghold at the confluence of the Danube and Morava.

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • Porets, have shown themselves worthy of their brothers of Shumadia and the Danube, of Poutrin and Morava, of Timok and Usjitsa.

    The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various

  • Prague, it seems via the valley of the Morava and the "Gate of Bohemia" at Nachod, through Breslau and Stettin, both, by the way, former

    From a Terrace in Prague Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

  • Though they were Serbs they had forgotten how to sing; it was some time later that the words, now famous, of "Tamo daleko" burst from the inspired lips of a simple soldier and were taken up by his companions: "There, far away, far away by the Morava, there is my village, there is my love ...."

    The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917

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