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  Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Neretva
Neretva is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
The upper stream of Neretva has water of Class A purity and is almost certainly the coldest river water in the world, often as low as 7-8 degrees Celsius in the summer months.
Neretva also has some endemic and very delicate, fragile life forms that are near extinction.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Neretva   (363 words)

  
 Neretva - Definition, explanation
Neretva (also Неретва) is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
The upper stream of Neretva has water of Class A purity and is almost certainly the coldest river water in the world, often as low as 7-8 degrees Celsius in the summer months.
Neretva also has some endemic and very delicate, fragile life forms that are near extinction.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ne/neretva.php   (339 words)

  
 Metkovic
The delta of the river Neretva (the names such as Neretva slough, lower Poneretavlje, Lower Neretva area, Neretva can also be found) is actually the area along the lower flow of the Neretva, from Gabela (Bosnia and Herzegowina) to the mouth of the river into the sea, and it is a part of Dubrovnik-Neretva district.
To the north-west of the mouth of the Neretva, in the immediate vicinity of the Adriatic road, in the sunken Karst basin, there are six lakes with a few islets and small inlets.
Neretva is also Croatian Venice, because the people of Neretva use their boats when they transport their animals to pastures, and their crops home....
www.metkovic.hr /eng/neretva.htm   (2078 words)

  
 Faculty of Civil Engineering University of Mostar > Research Activity > Neretva's lower flow - Tarnsboundary ...
Acumulations in Neretva's upper flow are conditioning dynamic of the water system which frequently is not in harmony with with season needs of the of the living world on this area.
Neretva was inflicting the gravel left it in the valley.
Neretva's lower flow is one of the areas where the project is conducting and it's aim is to develop regional cooperation for the nature protection area by fortification of the civil society institutions.
www.sve-mo.ba /gf/dt_neretva.html   (3546 words)

  
 Transboundary management plan for the Lower Neretva Valley
Activities were performed in parallel in Zagreb (for Neretva Delta) and in Mostar (for Hutovo Blato).
The Lower Neretva valley is the Ramsar site located partly in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Hutovo blato) and partly in the Republic of Croatia (the Neretva Delta).
As a part of the project, an extensive documentation on the Lower Neretva valley was prepared, which will serve for farther assessment and conservation of this area.
www.ramsar.org /sgf/sgf_rpts_neretva1.htm   (916 words)

  
 Neretva.org
The traces of an old Roman house and seven ancient graves were found in the vicinity, presumably from the iron or bronze age.
The locals had a chance to meet several representatives of the Italian Regional Park of the Po Delta (www.parcodeltapo.org), which was proclaimed as a park of nature in 1988.
Neretva could become one very soon too, thus some parts would be protected as well.
www.neretva.org   (446 words)

  
 Neretva travel guide
The Neretva Valley is an area where tribes, nations and their armies have fought for dominance since the beginning of time.
Neretva is this largest river of the eastern part of the Adriatic Basin.
The Lower Neretva valley contains the largest and the most valuable remnants of the Mediterranean wetlands on the eastern Adriatic coast and one of the few areas of this kind remaining in Europe.
www.world66.com /europe/croatia/neretva   (439 words)

  
 Dubrovnik - Neretva County - Dalmatia Croatia
The current restoration of Dubrovnik, however, is not simply a question of ancient skills and modern techniques alone, it is the restoration of the historic city as well as the human element within it.
The Neretva river tract, flowing downstream, widens considerably once it reaches Pocitelj and than the raging mountainous river empties into the most indented delta in Croatia.
The most well-known characteristic of the lower Neretva landscape have long been the marshlands with their abundance of fish and swamp birds.
www.apartments-vela-luka.com /dubrovnik-neretva.asp   (3447 words)

  
 Transboundary management of the lower Neretva valley
A workshop on the transboundary management of the lower Neretva valley took place on 7-8 March 2002 in Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina) and Metkovic (Croatia).
Briefly, the results of the 1997 MetWet2 project dealing with "socio-economic aspects of the use of the Neretva valley" and the running project to develop a "new management policy for Hutovo Blato" were presented.
It was commonly felt that significant progress has been gained in the case of the Neretva Delta and Hutovo Blato.
www.ramsar.org /wn/w.n.neretva_workshop1.htm   (635 words)

  
 Neretva Delta
The Neretva’s lower course and delta were shaped by high waters that periodically washed down from the mountains, bringing dissolved organic substrate, the sedimentation of which created fertile soil.
The valley along the last 30 km of the Neretva River, and the river itself, comprise a remarkable landscape.
Neretva Delta has been recognised as a Ramsar site since 1992, and Hutovo Blato since 2001.
www.rec.org /REC/Programs/REREP/Biodiversity/neretva/Neretva.html   (531 words)

  
 Dubrovnik Online, ecology in Dubrovnik, drinking water, the sea and the Blue Flag project
The Neretva River dominates the scenery in the hinterland of South Dalmatia.
The Neretva is the habitat of one of the largest species of trout-the marble trout, which can weigh more than thirty kilograms.
Near the mouth of the Neretva, there is an unusual bay called Malostonski zaljev, where the sea abounds in different kinds of shellfish.
www.dubrovnik-online.com /english/ecology.php   (1015 words)

  
 Dubrovnik Private Tours - Neretva River Delta
The Neretva River Delta is rich in flora and fauna, and also shelters numerous bird species.
The Neretva River Delta is an area of vast marshland abundant in flora and fauna sheltering hundreds of species of bird life.
The town was situated on the hillsides at an altitude of 58 metres and was built according to a Graeco-Illyrian urban concept, spreading in the form of a fan towards the east.
www.dubrovnik-tours.info /neretva.htm   (361 words)

  
 Neretva Dubrovnik Information
The Neretva’s lower course and delta were shaped by flood waters that periodically washed down from the mountains, bringing dissolved organic substrate, which was the sedimentation that created the rich, fertile soil.
The lower Neretva stream is not just a local feature but also a key region in the cycle of migration, hibernation and the nesting of birds as well as a hatching ground for numerous types of fish.
The Neretva principality had dominance over the sea and from the 11th Century was a part of the Croatian Kingdom.
www.angelfire.com /nd/domneal/neretva.html   (4231 words)

  
 News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Neretva is a river in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Other towns on the Neretva include Konjic, Metković, Jablanica, Čapljina as well as the historical village of Počitelj.
The Old Bridge (also Stari most), a major architectural monument over Neretva in Mostar and a World Heritage Site, was destroyed by Croatian shelling during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina on November 9 1993.
www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Neretva   (329 words)

  
 Neretva (Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The flag of Neretva from the map of Angelino Dulcert is quartered blue and white, as described in "Libro del conoscimiento de los reinos" [1].
The flag attributed to Neretva thus might actually be the flag of Bosnia, having been derived from its coat of arms.
In the Catalan Atlas, the flag of Neretva is quartered blue and silver; the silver is darkened by age so much that is is almost fl nowadays (on the above image, the shade of silver is shown according to the recommendations of International Association of Amateur Heralds).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/hr-du-nt.html   (1361 words)

  
 Neretva Delta
Neretva Delta covers about 20,000 ha of which 12,000 ha are in Croatia and the rest in Bosnia.
Neretva Delta includes five protected localities with a total surface of 1,620 ha.
These are the ornithological reserves of Pod Gredom, Prud and Orepak, the ornithological and ichthyologic reserve of Delta Neretva and the protected landscapes of Modro Oko and Desne Lake.
www.neretva.info /delta.asp?lang=eng&izb=natureeng   (220 words)

  
 Herzegovina - Neretva Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
The adoption of the symbols of this canton was quite difficult process and the solution finally adopted is an obvious compromise to avoid any ethnical reference.
The wavy lines no doubt refer to the Neretva river that is important in the life of the people here, but also to the sea coast - HNK being the only canton having any coast in BandH, however small.
The red-white-green stripes refer to the Federation of BandH and to the Croat and Bosniak majorities, while the blue stirpe in the middle sigifies the Neretva river.
www.fotw.net /flags/ba-hn.html   (578 words)

  
 Troma Entertainment
The Troma Team is produ to present Academy Award winners Yul Brynner (The King and I) and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane) in the Oscar-nominated epic The Battle of Neretva.
A war classic that defies category, The Battle of Neretva is a bittersweet symphony of chaos and glory.
With little more than the clothes on their backs and the lust for sovereignty in the hearts, their only choice is to fight, whether it be for victory or for death.
www.troma.com /movies/battleofneretva   (342 words)

  
 Hotel Restaurant Villa NERETVA - Metkovic - Small and family-run hotel - Croatian National Tourist Board
The Villa Neretva Hotel-Restaurant is located in the very heart of the delta, on the main road leading from Opuzen to Metković.
A meal in the Villa Neretva, or in the Neretva House, will delight the palate with specialties of the local cuisine.
Visits to the remains of temples and forums in Roman Narona (1st and 2nd centuries AD) open the door to a journey into the past.
www.croatia.hr /English/Lokacije/Lokacija.aspx?idDestination=82&idLocation=6508&idLocationType=SmallFamilyHotel   (144 words)

  
 Bitka na Neretvi (1969)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
"The Battle of Neretva" is an often confusing, badly edited mess… on American home video, that is. I've seen multiple versions of this film, and combined, they make one fine epic.
The Partisans begin a trek northward to the relative safety of the Bosnian Mountains – their goal is to cross the treacherous Neretva gorge over one remaining bridge.
"The Battle of Neretva" is simple one of the great lost films of the 20th Century.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0064091   (660 words)

  
 Bridge over the Neretva
The Stari Most, or Old Bridge, had once linked the eastern and western banks of the Neretva, a lucid jade river that cuts deep through the oldest part of the city.
Last July, an American-led NATO delegation offered to help recover hundreds of stones from the Neretva.
A Hungarian bridge construction company and Hungarian peacekeeping troops, with assistance from American advisors, raised the first stone this past September.
www.archaeology.org /9801/abstracts/bosnia.html   (589 words)

  
 Hotel Restaurant Villa NERETVA - Metkovic - Familien - und kleine Hotel - Kroatische Zentrale für Tourismus
Das Hotel-Restaurant Villa Neretva befindet sich im Herzen des Deltas, an der Hauptstraße zwischen Opuzen und Metković.
Es ist ein ausgezeichneter Ausgangspunkt für Fotosafaris in die zahlreichen sumpfigen Deltaarme und zwar in den traditionellen Flussbooten der Neretva.
Ein Mittagessen in der Villa Neretva oder im Neretva-Haus begeistert mit Spezialitäten der heimischen Küche.
www.croatia.hr /Deutsch/Lokacije/Lokacija.aspx?idDestination=82&idLocation=6508&idLocationType=SmallFamilyHotel   (119 words)

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