Rižana (river)

Rižana
The Rižana in the village of Rižana
Location
Country	Slovenia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Assumption Church in Bezovica
• elevation	73 metres (240 ft)
Mouth
• location	Gulf of Trieste
• coordinates	45.558127°N 13.733910°E / 45.558127; 13.733910
• elevation	0 metres (0 ft)
Length	14 kilometres (8.7 mi)
Basin size	202 km^2 (78 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	4.6 m^3/s (160 cu ft/s)

The Rižana is a river in Slovenia. It has also been known as the Risano. It was known as the Formio in Latin.

Geography

The village of Rižana is located upon it. Its mouth is on or near the Gulf of Trieste of the Adriatic Sea. The Škocjan Lagoon Nature Reserve is a park area of wetlands where the Rižana and Badaševica rivers used to flow into the sea.^[1]

Name

The Rižana was attested in historical sources as Rusano c. 670, Riziano c. 804, Risano in 1135, and Garzignana in 1569, among other spellings. The origin of the name is pre-Slavic and is probably related to the Illyrian toponym Ῥιζάνα Rhizana, reflected in the Montenegrin toponym Risan. The name is probably derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *erei̯H- 'to flow'.^[2]

References

1. "Škocjanski Zatok Nature Reserve". Retrieved 13 March 2020.
2. Snoj, Marko (2009). Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen. Ljubljana: Modrijan. p. 356.

Further reading

• Blažević, Marija (1986). "Istarske rijeke" [Istrian Rivers]. Priroda: popularni časopis hrvatskog prirodoslovnog društva. Vol. 72, no. 8. pp. 228–231. ISSN 0351-0662.