Hron

The Hron is a 271-kilometre long left tributary of the and the second-longest river in . It flows from its source in the Low Tatra Mountains through central and southern Slovakia, emptying into the Danube near and .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed Into Heaven and St Adalbert and Mária Valéria Bridge.

Church
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The Primatial Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Adalbert, also known as the Basilica of Esztergom, is an ecclesiastic basilica in , , the mother church of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, and the seat of the Catholic Church in Hungary.

Bridge
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The joins in and in , across the River . The bridge is some 500 metres in length. It is named after Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria, the fourth child of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Franz Josef and Elisabeth. is situated 2½ km south of Hron.

Museum
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The is the largest ecclesiastical collection in ; it conserves European and Hungarian works of art from the period between the 13th and 19th centuries.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kamenica nad Hronom and Solva.

Village
Photo: Villy, Public domain.
is a municipality and village in the in the of south-west .

Locality
was an early name for what is now , , in the province of Pannonia, during the Roman period. It was an important part of the limes line along the . was granted town rank by Publius Aelius Hadrianus in 121 AD.

Town
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(pronunciation is the southernmost town of , situated on the river not far from the mouth of the Hron. Connected by the it forms a cross-border urban area with the city of in . is situated 3 km southwest of Hron.

Hron

Latitude
47.81825° or 47° 49′ 6″ north
Longitude
18.74107° or 18° 44′ 28″ east
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
Open location code
8FVWRP9R+8C
Geo­Names ID
3059862
Wiki­data ID
Q213230
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Hron” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نهر هرون”
  • Arabic: “نهر هورن”
  • Armenian: “Հրոն”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Hron”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qron çayı”
  • Basque: “Hron”
  • Belarusian: “Грон”
  • Belarusian: “Рака Грон”
  • Bosnian: “Hron”
  • Bulgarian: “Хрон”
  • Catalan: “Hron”
  • Cebuano: “Hron”
  • Chinese: “赫龍河”
  • Chinese: “赫龙河”
  • Croatian: “Hron”
  • Czech: “Hron”
  • Danish: “Hron”
  • Dutch: “Hron”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر هرون”
  • Esperanto: “Garam”
  • Esperanto: “Hron”
  • Estonian: “Hron”
  • Estonian: “Hroni jõgi”
  • Finnish: “Hron”
  • French: “Hron”
  • Georgian: “ჰრონი”
  • German: “Gran”
  • German: “Hron”
  • Greek: “Γράνος”
  • Greek: “Χρον”
  • Hebrew: “הרון”
  • Hebrew: “חרון”
  • Hungarian: “Garam”
  • Indonesian: “Hron”
  • Irish: “Hron”
  • Italian: “Fiume Hron”
  • Italian: “Hron”
  • Japanese: “フロン川”
  • Korean: “흐론강”
  • Ladin: “Hron”
  • Latvian: “Hrona”
  • Limburgan: “Hron”
  • Lithuanian: “Hronas”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰრონი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hron”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Garam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Granus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hron”
  • Norwegian: “Hron”
  • Persian: “رودخانه هرون”
  • Polish: “Hron”
  • Portuguese: “Hron”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Hron”
  • Romanian: “Hron”
  • Romanian: “Râul Hron”
  • Russian: “Грон”
  • Rusyn: “Грон”
  • Serbian: “Hron”
  • Serbian: “Река Хрон”
  • Serbian: “Хрон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hron”
  • Slovak: “Hron”
  • Slovenian: “Gran”
  • Slovenian: “Hron”
  • Spanish: “Hron”
  • Spanish: “Rio Hron”
  • Spanish: “Río Hron”
  • Swedish: “Hron”
  • Ukrainian: “Грон (річка)”
  • Ukrainian: “Грон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Hron”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Hron”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہرون”
  • “Hron”

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