The Tamnava (

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: Тамнава) is a river in western

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. It is a -long left tributary of the Kolubara River and also gives the name to the surrounding region of Tamnava.

Origin

The Tamnava originates from several small streams from the hill of ''Konjsko brdo'' (Cyrillic: ''Коњско брдо''; ''Horse hill'') on the northern slopes of Vlašić mountain, northwest of the town of Valjevo, less than a kilometer away from the source of its major tributary, the

Ub River The Ub ( Serbian Cyrillic: Уб) is a river in western Serbia, a 57 km-long right and longest tributary to Tamnava river. Characteristics The Ub originates from the Vlašić mountain in Podgorina region of west Serbia, near the villa ...

. The Tamnava passes next to the village of Miličinica, makes sharp turn to the northwest along the Vlašić mountain, passes the village of

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and makes another sharp, elbow turn to the east around the Braznik hill (Cyrillic: ''Бразник''), near the Gradojević village. At the village of Kamenica, the Tamnava makes almost complete circle (triangle, in this case) as it comes just a kilometer away from its own furthermost source. In this early flow, the Tamnava makes the southeastern border of the

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region of western Serbia.

Tamnava region

The Tamnava region begins as the river passes between the village of

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and a small town and regional center of Koceljeva. The villages of Tamnava, Novaci,

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, Sovljak and

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are located on the river which has been followed by the satellite flow of the

ever from the source on the Vlašić mountain. The Ub finally meets the Tamnava near the village of

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. The river turns northeast and after it passes the village of

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flows into the Kolubara, south of the

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's suburb of

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. The region is low, elongated in the west–east direction, encompassing also the valleys of the Ub and Kladnica rivers. It is part of the southern

Pannonian plain The Pannonian Basin, or Carpathian Basin, is a large basin situated in south-east Central Europe. The geomorphological term Pannonian Plain is more widely used for roughly the same region though with a somewhat different sense, with only the ...

, that is, of the ancient Bay of Kolubara of the

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. The region is rich in coal (Tamnava coal mines) which is part of the vast Kolubara coal basin. The Tamnava drains an area of , through the Kolubara belongs to the

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and it is not navigable. The name of the river, Tamnava, in Serbian means ''The dark river''.

References

* ''Mala Prosvetina Enciklopedija'', Third edition (1985); Prosveta; * Jovan Đ. Marković (1990): ''Enciklopedijski geografski leksikon Jugoslavije''; Svjetlost-Sarajevo;

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