Olt River
The Olt is a river in Romania. It is 615 km long, and its basin area is 24,050 km/s. It originates in the Hășmaș Mountains of the eastern Carpathian Mountains, near Bălan, close to the headwaters of the river Mureș.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Țetcu Mircea Rareș, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Romania
- Also known as: “Olt” and “Oltul”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Three Holy Hierarchs church in Islaz.
Three Holy Hierarchs church in Islaz
Church
Photo: Bogdan Ștefan F., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Three Holy Hierarchs church in Islaz is situated 2½ km west of Olt River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Samovit and Cherkovica.
Samovit
Village
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Samovit is a village, which is situated 3½ km southwest of Olt River.
Cherkovica
Village
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cherkovica is a village, which is situated 3½ km east of Olt River.
Dolni Vit
Village
Photo: Edal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dolni Vit is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Olt River.
Olt River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Romania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Olt River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أولت”
- Arabic: “اولت”
- Armenian: “Օլթ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Olt”
- Basque: “Olt (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Olt”
- Belarusian: “Алута”
- Belarusian: “Олт”
- Belarusian: “Олтул”
- Belarusian: “Ольт”
- Belarusian: “Рака Альт”
- Belarusian: “Рака Олт”
- Breton: “Olt”
- Bulgarian: “Олт”
- Catalan: “Olt”
- Catalan: “Riu Olt”
- Cebuano: “Olt”
- Chinese: “Olt Khe”
- Chinese: “奥尔特河”
- Chinese: “奧爾特河”
- Croatian: “Olt”
- Czech: “Olt”
- Danish: “Olt”
- Dutch: “Olt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر اولت”
- Esperanto: “Olt”
- Esperanto: “rivero Olt”
- Estonian: “Olt”
- Estonian: “Olti jõgi”
- Finnish: “Aluta”
- Finnish: “Alutus”
- Finnish: “Olt-joki”
- Finnish: “Olt”
- Finnish: “Oltjoki”
- French: “Olt”
- Galician: “Río Olt”
- Georgian: “ოლტი”
- German: “Aluta”
- German: “Olt”
- Greek: “Αλτ”
- Greek: “Άλυτος”
- Greek: “Ολτ”
- Hebrew: “אולט”
- Hungarian: “Olt”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Olt”
- Irish: “Abhainn Olt”
- Italian: “Aluta”
- Italian: “Olt”
- Japanese: “オルト川”
- Korean: “올트 강”
- Korean: “올트강”
- Latin: “Aluta”
- Latvian: “Olta (upe)”
- Latvian: “Olta”
- Lithuanian: “Oltas”
- Lombard: “Alt”
- Lombard: “Aluta”
- Lombard: “Alutus”
- Lombard: “Olt”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Olt Khe”
- Mingrelian: “ოლტი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Olt”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Olt”
- Norwegian: “Olt”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Òlt”
- Persian: “رود اولت”
- Polish: “Aluta”
- Polish: “Olt”
- Portuguese: “Olt”
- Portuguese: “Rio Olt”
- Romanian: “Alutus”
- Romanian: “Olt(râu)”
- Romanian: “Olt”
- Romanian: “Râul Olt”
- Romanian: “Râului Olt”
- Russian: “Алута”
- Russian: “Альт”
- Russian: “Алюта”
- Russian: “Олт”
- Russian: “Олтул”
- Russian: “Ольт”
- Serbian: “Olt”
- Serbian: “Олт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Olt”
- Slovak: “Olt”
- Slovenian: “Olt”
- South Azerbaijani: “اولت چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Olt”
- Spanish: “Río Olt”
- Swedish: “Olt”
- Turkish: “Alt Nehri”
- Turkish: “Olt Nehri”
- Turkish: “Olt”
- Turkish: “Oltu Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Oltu Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Олт”
- Upper Sorbian: “Olt”
- Venetian: “Fiume Olt”
- Welsh: “Afon Olt”
- Western Panjabi: “اولٹ دریا”
- Wu Chinese: “奥尔特河”
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