Main
The Main to Wrzburg
Features
Length	524 km
Basin	27 292 km 2
Sump	Rhine
Average Flow	190 m 3 s -1
Courses
Flows into	Rhine
Geography
Countries crossed	Germany

Main (there is also is a tributary of the German right bank of the Rhine.

Summary 1 Etymology and spelling 2 Geography 3 Economic Importance 4 Main Valley 5 History 6 Notes and references

/ / Etymology and spelling

Until the nineteenth ^century, many authors wrote "Mein". In the ^{mid-twentieth} century, the Consulate General of France in Frankfurt / Main also still writing Mein ". Since then, German spelling has been taken in French.

Geography

The Main is formed by the junction of two rivers:

• Main white, came from the Fichtelgebirge ,
• the Red Hand, from the Jura Mountains Franconia.

It flows 524 km to the Land of Bavaria , Hesse and Baden-Wuerttemberg. It forms large meanders in its central part and passes through the towns of Bayreuth , Bamberg , Wrzburg and Frankfurt , where its speed reaches 190 m / sec. In front of Mainz , the Main flows into the Rhine.

Economic Importance

While winding, the Main is navigable for barges wide gauge on 396 km between Mainz and the mouth of the Regnitz near Bamberg , where it joins the Rhine-Main-Danube , with the latter forming a waterway continues to large gauge between the Rhine and the Danube and thus between the North Sea and the Black Sea.

General Map

Frankfurt

Mouth into the Rhine

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Main Valley

She is known for its wine Franconian dry traditionally bottled in bottles flattened form of addition (Type Armagnac ) called in German Bocksbeutel ("Exchange goat").

History

This river has been involved in many battles and wars since antiquity.

References