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Labe

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Labe, river: see Elbe Elbe (ĕl`bə), Czech Labe, a major river of central Europe, c.725 mi (1,170 km) long, rising in the Krknoše Mts.
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Elbe River

 Czech Labe ancient Albis

River, central Europe. One of the continent's major waterways, it rises in the Krkonoše (Giant) Mountains on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland and flows southwest across Bohemia. It then flows northwest across Germany and empties into the North Sea near Cuxhaven. From 1945 to 1990 it formed part of the boundary between East and West Germany. It is 724 mi (1,165 km) long and connected by canals with the Baltic Sea, the Havel River and Berlin, the Ruhr industrial region, and the Rhine River. It is navigable for 1,000-ton barges as far upstream as Prague through the Vltava River. Hamburg, Ger., is 55 mi (88 km) upstream from its mouth.



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Apart from Prague, extensive rural areas along the Vltava and Labe Rivers were flooded in August 2002.
8; Guinea Scott 258A29) was the chief of the Labe in the Fouta-Djalon but had a rather dubious history.
``I don't think you can wander very far off,'' Labe said.
 
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