Oravská priehrada

Slovakia / Zilinsky / Trstena /
 lake, reservoir
Orava is a reservoir in northernmost Slovakia, which is the largest lake in Slovakia (35.2 km²). It has been constructed between 1941 and 1953 as a dam built on the former two sources of the Orava river. Several former villages had to be inundated for this purpose. Probably the best known of them was Slanica, a birthplace of a Slovak intellectual and cleric Anton Bernolák (Antonius Bernolacius). Today, the reservoir is protected by the Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orava_(reservoir)
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Coordinates:   49°24'47"N   19°33'13"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago