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| image_caption = The Mur Valley near Tamsweg in Austria
| source1_location = [[Hohe Tauern]] at [[Muhr]], [[Austria]]
| source1_coordinates= {{coord|47|7|48|N|13|20|49|E|type:river_region:AT|display=inline}}
| mouth_location = [[Drava]] near [[Legrad]], [[Croatia]]
| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|46|18|19|N|16|52|39|E|region:AT|display=inline,title}}
| progression = {{RDrava}}
| subdivision_type1 = Countries
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[[File:Frohnleiten_vom_Gschwendberg.jpg|thumb|The Mur passing through [[Frohnleiten]], from left to right in the middle the expressway S35 [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucker_Schnellstra%C3%9Fe] (regarding southwest and downwards from the Gschwendtberg mountain)]]
[[File:Graz vista desde el Schlossberg.jpg|thumb|The Mur in [[Graz]], view from [[Schlossberg (Graz)|Schlossberg]] (Southwest direction)]]
[[File:Mura-slovenija-f-2012-07-PV.JPG|thumb|right|The Mur River in Slovenia]]
[[File:ZusammenflussDrauMur.jpg|thumb|right|The confluence of the Drava River (foreground) and Mura near [[Legrad]], Croatia]]
 
The '''Mur''' ({{IPA-de|ˈmuːɐ̯|-|De-Mur.ogg|lang}}) or '''Mura''' ({{IPA-sl|ˈmúːɾa|lang}}; {{IPA-shhr|mǔːra|langhrlang}}; {{IPA-hu|ˈmurɒ|lang}}; [[Prekmurje Slovene]]: ''Müra''<ref name="Novak">Novak, Vilko. 2006. ''Slovar stare knjižne prekmurščine''. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU, pp. 262, 269.</ref> or ''Möra''<ref name="Novak"/>) is a [[river]] in [[Central Europe]] rising in the [[Hohe Tauern]] national park of the [[Central Eastern Alps]] in [[Austria]] with its source beingat {{convert|1898|m|ft|abbr=on}} above sea level. It is a tributary of the [[Drava]] and subsequently the [[Danube]].
 
The Mur's total length is around {{convert|464|km}}.{{GeoQuelle|AT-6|DAS}} About 326&nbsp;km are within the interior of [[Austria]]; 95&nbsp;km flow in and around [[Slovenia]] (67&nbsp;km along the borders with Austria and Croatia, 28&nbsp;km inside Slovenia),{{GeoQuelle|SI|SURS}} and the rest forms the border between [[Croatia]] and [[Hungary]]. The largest city on the river is [[Graz]], Austria. Its [[drainage basin]] covers an area of {{convert|14109|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://info.bmlrt.gv.at/dam/jcr:75d8f27a-46eb-42f6-b517-bb2812dff44c/FlVerz_Mur_2011.pdf|title=Flächenverzeichnis der Flussgebiete: Murgebiet|work=Beiträge zur Hydrografie Österreichs Heft 60|page=126|date=October 2011}}</ref>
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==Etymology==
The river was attested as ''Maura'' in AD 799, ''Muora'' in 890, ''Mura'' in 1259, ''Mvr'' and ''Mver'' in 1310, and ''Muer'' in 1354. The name is probably of Slavic origin, nominalized from the adjective *''murъ'' 'dark', meaning 'dark water'.<ref name="Snoj">{{cite book |last1=Snoj |first1=Marko |title=Etimološki slovar slovenskih zemljepisnih imen |date=2009 |publisher=Modrijan |location=Ljubljana |pages=274-275274–275}}</ref>
 
==River course==
The river rises in a remote valley within the [[Tamsweg District|Lungau region]] of the [[Austria]]n [[Salzburg (state)|state of Salzburg]]. The river flows eastwards through [[Tamsweg]] before crossing the border into the [[Styria|state of Styria]].
 
Between Tamsweg and [[Unzmarkt-Frauenburg]] the river flows through a rural mountain valley and is closely paralleled by the {{convert|65|km|abbr=on}} long narrow gauge [[Murtalbahn]] railway. From Unzmarkt the river continues in an easterly direction through the industrial towns of [[Leoben]] and [[Bruck an der Mur]]. At Bruck an der Mur the [[Mürz]] joins the Mur, which turns sharply south to flow through the city of [[Graz]].
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