:''See also Turiec (Sajó).'' The Turiec (, ) is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of w ...

in north-western

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. It is a tributary to the

Váh The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
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, into which it flows near the city of Martin. Its source is in the Veľká Fatra Mountains. It is long and its basin size is . The

Turiec Turiec is a region in central Slovakia, one of the 21 official tourism regions. The region is not an administrative division today, but between the late 11th century and 1920 it was the Turóc County in the Kingdom of Hungary. Etymology The reg ...

region is named after this river.

Etymology

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic ' ...

associated the name with ''Durius'' (the ancient name of Upper

Váh The Váh (; german: Waag, ; hu, Vág; pl, WagWag
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Ptolemy Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importance ...

with the Celtic Taurisci tribe. The name is probably derived from the Indo-European appellative ''tur-'' ( sk, tur, en, bull). The root is used also in a broad sense - "rich" or "strong". The Hungarian name ''Turóc'' comes from the ancient Slavic form ''Turъcь'' (1113 ''Turc'').

Fauna

There were recorded 18 species of molluscs in Turiec river. That includes 8 species of freshwater gastropods and 10 species of freshwater bivalves.

References

Rivers of Slovakia {{Slovakia-river-stub