Gurk
The Gurk is a river in the Austrian state of Carinthia, a left tributary of the Drava. With a length of 156 km it is the longest river that flows entirely within Carinthia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: river in Austria
- Also known as: “Gurk (river)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prekowahöhe and Evangelische Pfarrkirche Gnesau.
Evangelische Pfarrkirche Gnesau
Church
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Evangelische Pfarrkirche Gnesau is a church.
Saint Leonard Church (Gnesau)
Church
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Saint Leonard Church (Gnesau) is situated 3½ km west of Gurk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiffen and Steindorf am Ossiacher See.
Tiffen
Village
Photo: Rollroboter, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tiffen is a cadastral municipality in Steindorf am Ossiacher See, in the district of Feldkirchen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Tiffen is situated 9 km southeast of Gurk.
Steindorf am Ossiacher See
Village
Photo: Kliek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Steindorf am Ossiacher See is a municipality in the district of Feldkirchen in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is the home of the Teuffenbach royal family. Steindorf am Ossiacher See is situated 9 km south of Gurk.
Feldkirchen in Kärnten
Town
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Feldkirchen in Kärnten is a town in the Austrian state of Carinthia and the capital of the district of the same name. It consists of the Katastralgemeinden Fasching, Feldkirchen, Glanhofen, Gradisch, Hoefling, Klein Sankt Veit, Pernegg, Rabensdorf, Sankt Ulrich, Sittich, Tschwarzen and Waiern. Feldkirchen in Kärnten is situated 9 km southeast of Gurk.
Gurk
- Categories: river, watercourse, and locality
- Location: Himmelberg, Feldkirchen District, Carinthia, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.77695° or 46° 46′ 37″ northLongitude
14.00825° or 14° 0′ 30″ eastElevation
962 metres (3,156 feet)Open location code
8FRPQ2G5+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 240036628OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gurk” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gurk”
- Aragonese: “Gurk”
- Arpitan: “Gurk”
- Asturian: “Gurk”
- Basque: “Gurk”
- Bavarian: “Gurk”
- Breton: “Gurk”
- Catalan: “Gurk”
- Cebuano: “Gurk”
- Chinese: “古爾克河”
- Chuvash: “Гурк”
- Corsican: “Gurk”
- Croatian: “Gurk”
- Czech: “Gurk”
- Danish: “Gurk”
- Dutch: “Gurk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر جورك”
- Esperanto: “Gurk”
- Estonian: “Gurk”
- Finnish: “Gurk”
- French: “Gurk”
- Friulian: “Gurk”
- Galician: “Gurk”
- German: “Gurk (Fließgewässer)”
- German: “Gurk (Fluss)”
- German: “Gurk”
- German: “Gurktal”
- Hungarian: “Gurk”
- Icelandic: “Gurk”
- Ido: “Gurk”
- Indonesian: “Gurk”
- Interlingua: “Gurk”
- Interlingue: “Gurk”
- Irish: “Gurk”
- Italian: “Gurk”
- Kongo: “Gurk”
- Latvian: “Gurka”
- Ligurian: “Gurk”
- Limburgan: “Gurk”
- Lithuanian: “Gurkas”
- Low German: “Gurk”
- Luxembourgish: “Gurk”
- Macedonian: “Гурк (река)”
- Macedonian: “Гурк”
- Malagasy: “Gurk”
- Malay: “Gurk”
- Minangkabau: “Gurk”
- Narom: “Gurk”
- Neapolitan: “Gurk”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gurk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gurk”
- Norwegian: “Gurk”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gurk”
- Persian: “رودخانه گورک”
- Picard: “Gurk”
- Piemontese: “Gurk”
- Polish: “Gurk”
- Portuguese: “Gurk”
- Romanian: “Gurk”
- Romansh: “Gurk”
- Russian: “Гурк”
- Sardinian: “Gurk”
- Scots: “Gurk”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gurk”
- Serbian: “Gurk”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gurk”
- Sicilian: “Gurk”
- Slovak: “Gurk”
- Slovenian: “Krka, Avstrija”
- Slovenian: “Krka, Koroška”
- Slovenian: “Krka”
- Spanish: “Gurk”
- Swahili: “Gurk”
- Swedish: “Gurk”
- Swiss German: “Gurk”
- Tajik: “Гурк”
- Tajik: “Дарё гурк”
- Uzbek: “Gurk (daryo)”
- Uzbek: “Gurk”
- Venetian: “Gurk”
- Vietnamese: “Gurk”
- Vlaams: “Gurk”
- Volapük: “Gurk”
- Walloon: “Gurk”
- Welsh: “Gurk”
- Wolof: “Gurk”
- Zulu: “Gurk”
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