Someșul Mare
river in northwestern Romania
The Someșul Mare (Great Someș, Hungarian: Nagy-Szamos) is a river in north-western Romania, originating in the Bistrița-Năsăud County in the Rodna Mountains at the confluence of two headwaters — the Preluci and the Zmeu. The Someșul Mare flows west through Rodna, Năsăud and Beclean, until it meets the Someșul Mic at Mica, upstream of Dej. Its length is 130 km (81 mi) and its basin size is 5,033 km2 (1,943 sq mi). Downstream from its confluence with the Someșul Mic, the river is called Someș.
Towns and villages
The following towns and villages are situated along the river Someșul Mare, from source to mouth: Șanț, Rodna, Maieru, Sângeorz-Băi, Ilva Mică, Feldru, Nepos, Năsăud, Salva, Nimigea, Chiuza, Beclean, Petru Rareș, Mica.
“Someșul Mare” enters the record as river in northwestern Romania. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Someșul, Mare and river can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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This entry incorporates text from “Someșul Mare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.