The Resavčina ( sr-Cyrl, Ресавчина) is a river in
Serbia
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, a 32 km-long right tributary to the
Great Morava
The Great Morava (, ) is the final section of the Morava ( sr-Cyrl, Морава), a major river system in Serbia.
Etymology
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river. It is sometimes also called ''Resavica'' or ''Resava'' (not to be confused with another Great Morava's right tributary of
Resava or its own tributary of ).
The Resavčina originates near the village of
Proštinac in
Svilajnac
Svilajnac ( sr-cyr, Свилајнац, ) is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. The population of the town is 8,593 inhabitants, while the municipality has 20,141 inhabitants (2022 census).
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municipality. The river originally flows to the north, but soon turns west at the village of
Dubnica and enters the western half of the
Great Pomoravlje region. At the village of
Kušiljevo
Kušiljevo is a village in the municipality of Svilajnac, Serbia
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, the river receives the small stream of ''Beljeva'' from the left and turns northward, which is the general direction of its course for the rest of the flow.
The river flows parallel to the
Great Morava
The Great Morava (, ) is the final section of the Morava ( sr-Cyrl, Морава), a major river system in Serbia.
Etymology
According to Predrag Komatina from the Institute for Byzantine Studies in Belgrade, the Great Morava is named after ...
river as its satellite flow, in the Morava's
floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river. Floodplains stretch from the banks of a river channel to the base of the enclosing valley, and experience flooding during periods of high Discharge (hydrolog ...
, so there are no settlements on the Resavica itself, but several large villages are located in its valley (
Porodin,
Žabari
Žabari ( sr-cyr, Жабари) is a village and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbia. In 2022, the population of the village was 1,022, while the population of the municipality was 9,261.
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,
Simićevo,
Aleksandrovac Požarevački,
Vlaški Do,
Poljana), all of them located on the
Požarevac
Požarevac ( sr-cyr, Пожаревац, ) is a list of cities in Serbia, city and the administrative centre of the Braničevo District in eastern Serbia. It is located between three rivers: Danube, Great Morava and Mlava and below the hill Čač ...
–Svilajnac road, parallel to the river, but few kilometers to the east. At the dual village of Prugovo–
Lučica, the southern suburbs of the town of Požarevac, the Resavčina turns west and empties into the Great Morava near the horse
stud farm
A stud farm or stud in animal husbandry is an establishment for selective breeding of livestock. The word "stud (animal), stud" comes from the Old English ''stod'' meaning "herd of horses, place where horses are kept for breeding". Historically, ...
of , one of two most famous in Serbia, just several kilometers southwest of the Požarevac itself.
The Resavčina belongs to the
Black Sea
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drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...
, drains an area of 174 km
2, and it is not navigable.
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Rivers of Serbia