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{{short description|River in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia}}{{redirect|Pregola|the Italian municipality|Brallo di Pregola}}

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| subdivision_type1 = Country| subdivision_name1 = Russia| length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = 90abbr=on}}15,500abbr=on}}}}The Pregolya or Pregola (; ; ; ) is a river in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast exclave.

Name

A possible ancient name by Ptolemy of the Pregolya River is Chronos (from Germanic *hrauna, “stony“){{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}, although other theories identify Chronos as a much larger river, the Nemunas.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}The oldest recorded names of the river are Prigora (1302), Pregor (1359), Pregoll, Pregel (1331), Pregill (1460). Georg Gerullis connected the name with Lithuanian prãgaras, pragorė̃ (“abyss“) and the Lithuanian verb gérti (“drink“). Vytautas Mažiulis instead derived it from spragė́ti or sprógti (“burst“) and the suffix -ara (“river“)journals.lki.lt/actalinguisticalithuanica/article/download/856/947/ {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

Overview

It starts as a confluence of the Instruch and the Angrapa and drains into the Baltic Sea through the Vistula Lagoon. Its length under the name of Pregolya is 123 km, 292 km including the Angrapa. The basin has an area of 15,500 km2. The average flow is 90 m3/s.Euler’s Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem was based on the bridges crossing the river in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad).

Cities and towns

• Chernyakhovsk
• Znamensk
• Gvardeysk
• Kaliningrad

Tributaries

• Pissa
• Lava/Łyna
• Angrapa
• Instruch

See also

• List of rivers of Russia
• Bridges of Konigsberg problem

References

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