Glan
The Glan is a river in Carinthia, Austria, a right tributary of the Gurk. It is 64.3 km long. Its drainage basin is 825.2 km2. It rises north of the Wörthersee in the Ossiach Tauern, then running through Feldkirchen, going northeastwards passing the castle Burgruine Glanegg until it reaches Sankt Veit where it bends sharply towards south.Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
- Type: Spring
- Description: river in Austria
- Also known as: “Quelle der Glan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Taubenbühel and Filialkirche hl. Vitus, Ebenfeld.
Filialkirche hl. Vitus, Ebenfeld
Church
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 3.0 at.
Filialkirche hl. Vitus, Ebenfeld is a church.
Pfarrkirche Hl. Martin
Church
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pfarrkirche Hl. Martin is a church, which is situated 3 km east of Glan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Köstenberg and Velden.
Köstenberg
Village
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Köstenberg is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Glan.
Velden
Photo: Johann Jaritz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Velden am Wörther See is a market town in Villach-Land District, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. Situated on the western shore of the Wörthersee lake, it is one of the country's most popular holiday resorts.
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 6 km north of Glan.
Glan
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Carinthia, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.65833° or 46° 39′ 30″ northLongitude
14.05787° or 14° 3′ 28″ eastElevation
395 metres (1,296 feet)Open location code
8FRPM355+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 333576138OpenStreetMap feature
natural=spring
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Venetian—“Glan” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Glan”
- Catalan: “Glan”
- Cebuano: “Glan”
- Chinese: “格蘭河”
- Dutch: “Glan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جلان”
- Estonian: “Glan (Gurk)”
- Estonian: “Glan”
- French: “Glan”
- German: “Glan”
- German: “Glantal”
- Irish: “Glan”
- Italian: “Glan”
- Japanese: “グラン川”
- Latvian: “Glāna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glan”
- Norwegian: “Glan”
- Polish: “Glan”
- Serbian: “Глан (река)”
- Serbian: “Глан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glan”
- Slovenian: “Glina”
- Spanish: “Rio glan”
- Spanish: “Río Glan”
- Swedish: “Glan”
- Ukrainian: “Глан”
- Uzbek: “Glan (Gurk)”
- Uzbek: “Glan”
- Venetian: “Fiume Glan”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pfarrfriedhof Ebenfeld and Trabeniger Berg.
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