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Vezere River

Correze, Nouvelle-aquitaine, France
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About Vezere River

The Vezere River is a 211-km-long waterway in southwestern France. It is a critical tributary to the Dordogne River. Its source is in the northwestern piece of the raised level known as the Massif Central. It streams into the Dordogne close Le Bugue. A tributary of the Vezere is the Correze River. The Vezere Valley is acclaimed for its ancient cavern frameworks, containing various cavern canvases and primate remains. UNESCO aggregately assigned these a World Heritage site in 1979.

Among the locales with surprising caverns is Lascaux. The stream Visera is authenticated in Carolingian devout medieval original copies in 889. It ought not be befuddled in the Dordogne with the Upper Vezere, or Auvezere, a tributary of the L'Isle, 10 kilometers east of Perigueux. The name Vezere comes, as indicated by certain researchers, from the old hydronym Vizara or Izara, framed by two bordering Ligurian roots.

The first, viz or iz, and the second ara. Viz or Iz implies an "empty Valley", and ara implies a "waterway", the word Vezere signifies "streams in the empty valley". It could likewise be a Celtic word Isara, which means a "quick and rash stream" to demonstrate to the explorers the threats of a waterway amid times of exceptional rains or snow soften. The straightforward Latin variety is visara in the Gallo-Roman world which clarifies the legitimate phonetic advancement into Old French and Occitan.

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