Mura is a river, a subsidiary of the bigger Drava and Danube.
The Mura river's (Mur in German) source is in the Austrian national park Hohe Tauern (Visoke Ture). The source is 1898 m above sea level. Its total length is 438 km, 295 km in Austria and 70 km as the border with both Austria and Hungary.
It also passes through Medjimurje (Medjimurska zupanija), dividing Croatia from Slovenia. 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 Hrašćan, (hrast is oak tree in the Croatian language). Since the 4th century BC, there were reports on floating mills powered by the streams of the rivers. The ancient know-how was later accepted by arriving Slavs, then by Ugars. Several decades ago, in the 1920s and '30s, many of these mills were operating along the river. The last one, in Mursko Sredisce, was in use in the 1970s.
The river ends near Legrad in the Podravina region of Croatia, where it flows into the Drava river. The town used to be part of Medimurje but a change of the river's course set it to another bank of the river. It is known to carry small quantities of gold, not enough to be suitable for exploitation today but was the activity of many people since ancient times. Organized research and exploitation of gold and other local resources was encouraged for the first time in 1772.