Neris
Mindaugas bridge over Neris in Vilnius, Lithuania
Origin	Belarus
Mouth	Neman River
Basin countries	Belarus, Lithuania
Length	510 km (317 mi)
Source elevation
Avg. discharge	182 m³/s (6,428 ft³/s)
Basin area	25,100 km² (9,691 mi²)

Neris (pronunciation (help· info), Belarusian: Вя́льля, Vialla, or Ві́лія) is a river arising in Belarus, flowing through Vilnius (Lithuania) and becoming a tributary of the Neman River (Nemunas) at Kaunas (Lithuania). Its length is 510 km. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 124 KB) Mindaugas Bridge in Vilnius File links The following pages link to this file: Neris ... Mindaugas King of Lithuania Mindaugas monument in Vilnius Mindaugas (approximate English transcription [ˈmın. ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Coordinates Number of elderates 20 General Information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights 1387 Not to be confused with Vilnius city... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Neman (Belarusian: ; Lithuanian: ; Russian: ; Polish: ; German: ) is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Baltic Sea near KlaipÄ—da. ... A drainage basin is the area within the drainage basin divide (yellow outline), and drains the surface runoff and river discharge (blue lines) of a contiguous area. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In hydrology, the discharge of a river is the volume of water transported by it in a certain amount of time. ... Image File history File links Neris. ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Vilnius County Municipality Vilnius city municipality Coordinates Number of elderates 20 General Information Capital of Lithuania Vilnius County Vilnius city municipality Vilnius district municipality Population 540,318 in 2005 (1st) First mentioned 1323 Granted city rights 1387 Not to be confused with Vilnius city... The Neman (Belarusian: ; Lithuanian: ; Russian: ; Polish: ; German: ) is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Baltic Sea near KlaipÄ—da. ... Location Ethnographic region AukÅ¡taitija County Kaunas County Municipality Kaunas city municipality Coordinates Number of elderates 11 General Information Capital of Kaunas County Kaunas city municipality Kaunas district municipality Population 361,274 in 2005 (2nd) First mentioned 1361 Granted city rights 1408 Kaunas ( (help· info), approximate English transcription [ˈkəʊ.n...

The Neris connects two old Lithuanian capitals - Kernavė and Vilnius. Along its banks are burial places of the pagan Lithuanians. 25 km from Vilnius are the old burial mounds of Karmazinai. There also are many mythological stones, and a sacred oak. Birds eye view of KernavÄ— KernavÄ— is a tourist and archeological resort in southeast Lithuania, and was once the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. ... Lithuanian mythology is an example of pagan mythology containing archaic elements. ... Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ...

Etymologically, the name is one of a class of water names, including Lithuanian Narotis, Narasa (rivers), Narutis (lake), Old Prussian Narus (the Narew), the Nara (near Moscow) and many others over the prehistoric Baltic range. These are related to Lithuanian narus, "deep", and nerti, "to dive". More remote connections are obscure, although the root is believed to be Indo-European. There are a number of possibilities; perhaps Pokorny's 2nd *ner-, "under" (Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, pp765-766), perhaps Derksen's *nerH-, o-grade *norH- (Slavic Inherited Lexicon), perhaps a relation to the Greek god Nereus, which may be from *snau-, "to give milk to", in the sense of "flow" (Partridge, Origins (1983)). Narew (Belarusian: На́раў) is a river in western Belarus and north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Vistula river. ... Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ... The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages. ... Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was born in Prague and studied at Vienna university. ... A listing of Greek mythological beings. ... Nereus: in Greek Mythology, eldest son of Pontus and Gaia, the Sea and the Earth. ...

External links

• Neris regional park

Image gallery

Confluence of Neris and Neman in Kaunas Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (2560x1920, 826 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Kaunas Neris ...

Neris in Pajauta valley in Kernavė Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2515x829, 615 KB) Pajauta Valley, Neris and old hillfort mounds near Kernave, Lithuania. ... Birds eye view of KernavÄ— KernavÄ—, a medieval capital [1] of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, today is a tourist and archeological village (with population of 318 as of 1999) in Å irvintos district municipality in southeast Lithuania. ... Birds eye view of KernavÄ— KernavÄ— is a tourist and archeological resort in southeast Lithuania, and was once the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. ...