Tisza

The Tisza or Tisa is one of the main rivers of Central Europe. It rises in Ukraine, and is formed near Rakhiv by the junction of headwaters White Tisa, whose source is in the Chornohora mountains and Black Tisa, which springs in the Gorgany range. It flows roughly along the Romanian border and enters Hungary at Tiszabecs and leaves the country a few kilometers south of the city of Szeged. After passing through Hungary it flows into the Danube in north Serbia near the village of Novi Slankamen in Vojvodina Province. There, it forms the boundary between the regions of Bačka and Banat. The river also forms short portions of the border between Hungary and Ukraine and between Hungary and Serbia. Once it was called "The most Hungarian river" as until 1920 it flowed within Hungary for its entire length (from source to draining).