Rhine Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
river in Western Europe
About Rhine
The Rhine is 1,233 km long, from its source(s) in the Swiss Alps of Graubünden to its delta estuary on the North Sea, making it the seventh-longest river in Europe (if longer tributaries of the Volga are not counted). Given its location in Central Europe and its course through several densely populated countries and regions, its importance to history, economy, transport and culture, is much greater than its sheer length might suggest. The name Rhine (Rhenusin Latin;Rheinin German,Rhinin French,Rijnin Dutch) is probably derived from the Indo-European radicalrei-and therefore etymologically related to the wordsrheo(Old Greek for "to flow"),rinnen(German for "to trickle"), Latinrivus, Spanishrioand Englishriver. The Rhine is grammatically male in Latin, French, German and Dutch, and personifi
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