Don River
The Don is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire.Photo: High Contrast, CC BY-SA 2.0 de.
- Type: Stream
- Description: Russian river, fifth-longest river in Europe
- Also known as: “Don”, “River Don”, “Tanais”, and “Tanaïs”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kagal’nik and Saymo-Obryv.
Kagal’nik
Village
Photo: Павел 999990, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kagal’nik is a village, which is situated 6 km east of Don River.
Saymo-Obryv
Village
Photo: Pboober, Public domain.
Saymo-Obryv is a village, which is situated 9 km southeast of Don River.
Don River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Don River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Don”
- Amharic: “ዶን ወንዝ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τάναϊς”
- Arabic: “دن”
- Arabic: “نهر الدون”
- Arabic: “نهر دون”
- Armenian: “Դոն”
- Asturian: “Río Don”
- Asturian: “Ríu Don”
- Azerbaijani: “Don çayı”
- Bashkir: “Дон”
- Basque: “Don”
- Belarusian: “Дон”
- Belarusian: “Рака Дон”
- Bengali: “দোন নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “डॉन नदी (रूस)”
- Bhojpuri: “डॉन नदी”
- Bosnian: “Don”
- Breton: “Don”
- Bulgarian: “Дон”
- Catalan: “Don”
- Catalan: “riu Don”
- Catalan: “Riu Don”
- Catalan: “Tanais”
- Cebuano: “Don”
- Chinese: “當河”
- Chinese: “頓河”
- Chinese: “顿河”
- Church Slavic: “Донъ · рѣка”
- Chuvash: “Тан”
- Crimean Tatar: “Ten Suv”
- Croatian: “Don”
- Czech: “Don”
- Danish: “Don”
- Dutch: “Don”
- Eastern Mari: “Дон”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الدون”
- Esperanto: “Don”
- Estonian: “Don”
- Fiji Hindi: “Don Naddi”
- Finnish: “Don”
- French: “Don”
- Galician: “Río Don”
- Georgian: “დონი”
- German: “Don”
- Greek: “Ντον”
- Greek: “Τάναϊς”
- Haitian: “Don (rivyè)”
- Haitian: “Don”
- Hebrew: “דון”
- Hindi: “दोन नदी”
- Hungarian: “Don”
- Icelandic: “Don”
- Ido: “Fluvio Don”
- Indonesian: “Rusia Sungai Don”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Don, Rusia”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Don”
- Ingush: “Тан”
- Ingush: “Тана”
- Irish: “Don”
- Italian: “Don”
- Japanese: “ドン川”
- Kabardian: “Тэн”
- Kannada: “ಡಾನ್ (ನದಿ)”
- Kannada: “ಡಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Дон”
- Kirghiz: “Дон”
- Korean: “돈 강”
- Korean: “돈강”
- Ladin: “Don”
- Latin: “Tanais”
- Latvian: “Dona”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Don”
- Lithuanian: “Donas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Don”
- Macedonian: “Дон”
- Malagasy: “Don (ony)”
- Malagasy: “Don”
- Malay: “Sungai Don”
- Malayalam: “ഡോൺ നദി”
- Marathi: “डॉन नदी”
- Marathi: “दॉन नदी”
- Mingrelian: “დონი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “დონი”
- Moksha: “Дон”
- Mongolian: “Дон мөрөн”
- Northern Frisian: “Don”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Don”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Don”
- Norwegian: “Don”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Don”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dòn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Danais”
- Ossetian: “Дон”
- Panjabi: “ਡਾਨ”
- Persian: “دن”
- Persian: “روخانه دُن”
- Persian: “رودخانه دان”
- Polish: “Don”
- Portuguese: “Rio Dom”
- Portuguese: “Rio Don”
- Romanian: “Râul Don”
- Russian: “Ванаксвиль”
- Russian: “Дон”
- Russian: “река Дон”
- Russian: “Танаис”
- Russian: “Танаксвиль”
- Scots: “Don”
- Serbian: “Дон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Don”
- Sicilian: “Don”
- Slovak: “Don”
- Slovenian: “Don”
- South Azerbaijani: “دون چایی”
- Spanish: “Don”
- Spanish: “Rio Don”
- Spanish: “Río Don”
- Swahili: “Don”
- Swedish: “Don”
- Tamil: “டான் ஆறு”
- Tamil: “தொன் ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Тын”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำดอน”
- Tibetan: “ཏོན་གཙང་པོ།”
- Turkish: “Don Nehri”
- Udmurt: “Дон”
- Ukrainian: “Великий Дон”
- Ukrainian: “Дін”
- Ukrainian: “Дон”
- Upper Sorbian: “Don”
- Uzbek: “Don (daryo)”
- Uzbek: “Don”
- Venetian: “Fiume Don”
- Veps: “Don”
- Vietnamese: “sông Don”
- Vietnamese: “sông Đông”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Đông”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Don”
- Welsh: “Afon Don”
- Western Frisian: “Don”
- Wu Chinese: “顿河（俄罗斯）”
- Wu Chinese: “顿河”
- Yakut: “Дон”
- Yiddish: “דאן”
- Yue Chinese: “當河”
- “डॉन नदी”
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