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[[Image:Gradec Schlossberg.jpg|right|250px|thumb|The Mur passing through Graz.]]
'''Mura''' ([[German language|German]] ''Mur'') is a [[river]] in [[Central Europe]], a [[tributary]] of the bigger [[Drava]] and subsequently the [[Danube]].
The source of the river is in the [[Austria]]n [[national park]] [[Hohe Tauern]]. The [[Source (river or stream)|source]] is 1,898 m above [[sea level]]. Its total length is 465 km, of which 295 km is in Austria, 98 km is in [[Slovenia]] and the rest constitutes the border between [[Hungary]] and [[Croatia]]. The biggest city on the river is [[Graz]], Austria.
The river gives its name to the Slovenian region of [[Prekmurje]] ("Trans-Mura-land") and the Croatian region of [[Medjimurje|Međimurje]] ("between-Mura-land"). In this area, one can still use [[cable ferry]] as transportation mean.
In the area of ''upper Međimurje'', in the western part of the region, the Mura floods and change its course rather often, moving slowly toward the north on its left. Here, the biggest forest along the river, the ''Murščak'', is located between [[Domašinec]] and [[Donji Hrascan|Donji Hrašćan]], (''hrast'' is [[oak]] in the [[Croatian language]]).
Since the [[4th century BC]], there have been reports of floating mills powered by the streams of the river. The [[ancient]] technology was adopted later by arriving [[Slavs]] and then by [[Magyars]]. Several decades ago, in the 1920s and '30s, many of these mills were still operating along the river. At least one of the old mills -- ''Babičev mlin'' near [[Veržej]], Slovenia -- continues to operate to this day.
The river ends near [[Legrad]] in the [[Koprivnica-Križevci county]] of [[Croatia]], where it flows into the [[Drava]] river.
Mura is known to carry small quantities of [[gold]], not enough to be suitable for exploitation today but was the focus of activity for many people since ancient times. Organized [[research]] and exploitation of gold and other local resources was encouraged for the first time in [[1772]].
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