Sava
The Sava is a river in Central and Southeast Europe, a right-bank and the longest tributary of the Danube. From its source in Slovenia it flows through Croatia and along its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and finally reaches Serbia, feeding into the Danube in its capital, Belgrade.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Southeast Europe
- Also known as: “Sava River” and “Save”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Contemporary Art and Belgrade Fortress.
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum
The Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. It was founded in 1958 as the Modern Gallery, making if one the first museums of this type in the world.
Belgrade Fortress
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Belgrade Fortress, consists of the old citadel and Kalemegdan Park on the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, in an urban area of modern Belgrade, Serbia.
Kalemegdan
Park
Photo: Laessig, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kalemegdan Park, or simply Kalemegdan is the largest park and the most important historical monument in Belgrade. It is located on a 125-metre-high cliff, at the junction of the River Sava and the Danube.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ušće and Kosančićev venac.
Ušće
Locality
Photo: Orlovic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ušće is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Novi Beograd. Ušće is located on the mouth of the Sava river into the Danube, thus the name.
Kosančićev venac
Locality
Photo: Joksimus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kosančićev Venac is an urban neighborhood of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is located in Belgrade's municipality of Stari Grad. It has been described as the most valuable and most representative veduta of Belgrade.
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital of the Republic of Serbia. It stands at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, where the rolling Pannonian Plain fetches up against the rugged Balkan peninsula, and in 2022 had a population of 1.2 million, about a fifth of Serbia's total.
Sava
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Serbia, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Sava” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sava”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Savës”
- Albanian: “Sava”
- Amharic: “ሳቫ ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “سافا”
- Aragonese: “Río Sava”
- Armenian: “Սավա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Sava”
- Azerbaijani: “Sava çayı”
- Basque: “Sava”
- Bavarian: “Sava”
- Belarusian: “Рака Сава”
- Belarusian: “Сава”
- Bosnian: “Sava”
- Breton: “Sava”
- Bulgarian: “Сава”
- Catalan: “Sava”
- Cebuano: “Sava”
- Chinese: “薩瓦河”
- Croatian: “Sava”
- Czech: “Sava”
- Czech: “Sáva”
- Danish: “Sava”
- Dutch: “Sava (rivier)”
- Dutch: “Sava”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سافا”
- Esperanto: “Sava”
- Estonian: “Sava”
- Finnish: “Sava”
- French: “Save”
- Galician: “Río Sava”
- Galician: “Río Save”
- Georgian: “სავა”
- German: “Sau”
- German: “Sava”
- German: “Save”
- German: “Sawe”
- Greek: “Σάβα”
- Greek: “Σάβος”
- Hebrew: “סאווה”
- Hungarian: “Száva”
- Icelandic: “Sava”
- Ido: “Rivero Sava”
- Indonesian: “Sava”
- Irish: “Sava”
- Italian: “Sava”
- Japanese: “サヴァ川”
- Javanese: “Kali Sava”
- Kazakh: “Сава”
- Kirghiz: “Сава”
- Korean: “사바 강”
- Korean: “사바강”
- Ladin: “Sava”
- Latin: “Savus”
- Latvian: “Sava”
- Lithuanian: “Sava”
- Lombard: “Sava”
- Macedonian: “Сава”
- Malayalam: “സാവ”
- Marathi: “सावा नदी”
- Mingrelian: “სავა”
- Mongolian: “Сава гол”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sava”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sava”
- Norwegian: “Sava”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sava”
- Ossetian: “Савæ”
- Persian: “رود ساوا”
- Polish: “Sawa”
- Portuguese: “Rio Sava”
- Romanian: “Râul Sava”
- Russian: “Сава”
- Rusyn: “Сава”
- Scots: “Sava”
- Serbian: “Сава”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sava”
- Slovak: “Sáva”
- Slovenian: “Sava”
- South Azerbaijani: “ساوا چایی”
- Spanish: “Río Sava”
- Spanish: “Sava”
- Swedish: “Sava”
- Tamil: “சாவா ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำซาวา”
- Turkish: “Sava Nehri”
- Turkish: “Sava”
- Ukrainian: “Сава”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sawa”
- Urdu: “ساوا”
- Uzbek: “Sava”
- Venetian: “Sava”
- Vietnamese: “Sava”
- Vlaams: “Sava (riviere)”
- Vlaams: “Sava”
- Welsh: “Afon Sava”
- Western Frisian: “Sava”
- Western Panjabi: “ساوا”
- Wu Chinese: “萨瓦河”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kalemegdan Park and Malo Ratno Ostrvo.
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