Prut
Prut near the Howerla in Ukraine
Course of the Prut
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Prut (Romanian Prut, ukrainian, russian Прут; Latin Pyretus ) is a 953 km long left tributary of the Danube. Its source is in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast in the Ukrainian Eastern Carpathians near the Romanian border, where the Jassinja Pass leads over to the headwaters of the river Tisza in the Transcarpathian Oblast. The Moldovan - Romanian border entirely follows the course of the Prut.
Course
From the mountains near the Howerla the Prut direction Yaremche flows and about 100 km east of the source of Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast and the capital of the former capital of Bukovina. After 100 km the course of Pruths turns south and marks from now the entire border between Romania and Moldova. In the hill country of Bessarabia, the river meanders strong. Not far from the city of Iaşi, he is for the lower 300 km navigable and flows east of Galaţi ( Galatz ) the Moldovan Giurgiuleşti into the Danube, just before it reaches its delta.
The river has (just before its confluence with the Danube ), a water guide of 110 m³ / s
Of historical importance is the peace of the Pruth, the Peter the Great had received on 23 July 1711 after his troops had been previously included in the town Huşi by the Turks.