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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
wow, that sounds brilliant ahi.  can't wait to read what moejoe will do with it. |
Thanks, Zelda!
It is perhaps worth adding:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisza
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The length of the [river] Tisza in Hungary used to be 1419 km. It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe. Since plains can cause a river to flow very slowly, the Tisza used to follow a path with many curves and turns, which led to many large floods in the area.
After several small-scale attempts, István Széchenyi organised the "control of the Tisza" (Hungarian: a Tisza szabályozása) which started on August 27, 1846 and substantially ended in 1880. The new length of the river in Hungary was 966 km, with 589 km of "dead channels" and 136 km of new riverbed.
The resultant length of the flood-protected river comprises 2,940 km (out of 4,220 km of all Hungarian protected rivers) which forms one of the largest flood protection systems in Europe; larger than the Netherlands' 1,500 km, the Po River's 1,400 km, or the Loire Valley's 480 km.
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... so Attila's coffin need not necessarily lie underneath the Tisza still.
- Ahi