Bug River
The Bug River (Polish: Bug [buk] or Western Bug; ; Ukrainian: Західний Буг, Zakhidnyy Buh, Belarusian: Захо́дні Буг, Zakhodni Buh; Russian: Западный Буг, Zapadnyy Bug) is a major European river which flows through three countries with a total length of 830 kilometres (520 mi).
A tributary of the Narew River, the Bug forms part of the border between Ukraine and Poland
for 185 kilometres (115 mi), and between Belarus and Poland for 178 kilometres (111 mi), and is the fourth longest Polish river.
History
The name Bug probably came from the old Germanic word baug-s which meant something winding, genual, bent (what was mentioned about river by Gervase of Tilbury who used latin term armilla). Word Baug took Slavians from the Goths who previously lived in large numbers near the river.
Traditionally the Bug River was also often considered the ethnographical border between Orthodox and Catholic Polish peoples. The Bug was the dividing line between German Wehrmacht and Russian Red Army forces following the 1939 invasion of Poland in the Second World War.
