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{{Short description|River in Eastern Europe; tributary of the Pripyat}}
{{Infobox river
  | name              = Styr
  | native_name       = {{native name list |tag1=uk|name1=Стир |tag2=be|name2=Стыр}}
  | image             = Река Стырь в Кузнецовске летом.JPG
  | image_caption     = Styr near [[Varash]]
  | map               = Styr (rivière).png
  | mapframe          = yes
  | mapframe-zoom     = 6
  | source1_location  = [[Lviv Oblast]], [[Ukraine]]
  | mouth             = [[Pripyat (river)|Pripyat]]
  | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|52.1076|N|26.5829|E|source:kolossus-dewiki|display=it}}
  | subdivision_type1 = Country
  | subdivision_name1 = [[Ukraine]], [[Belarus]]
  | length            = {{convert|494|km|abbr=on}}
  | source1_elevation = 
  | discharge1_avg    = 
  | basin_size        = {{convert|13,100|km2|abbr=on}}
  | progression       = {{RPripyat}}
  | extra             = 
}}

The '''Styr''' ({{Langx|uk|Стир}}; {{Langx|be|Стыр}}; {{Langx|ru|Стырь}}) is a right [[tributary]] of the [[Pripyat (river)|Pripyat]], with a length of {{convert|494|km}}. Its [[Drainage basin|basin]] area is {{convert|13,100|km2}} and located in the historical region of [[Volhynia]].<ref name="Izsak">{{cite book|url=http://www.kmf.uz.ua/hun114/images/konyvek/Izsak_Tibor_Ukrajna%20termeszeti_foldrajza.pdf|title=Ukrajna természeti földrajza|pages=95| author=Izsák Tibor|publisher=II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola|year=2007|accessdate=2019-04-20|language=hu}}</ref><ref name="névj">{{cite web|url=http://okt.kmf.uz.ua/ftt/oktat-ftt/Foldrajz_szak/Ukrajna_termeszeti_fodrajza/szotarukrfoldr.pdf|title=NÉVJEGYZÉK-SZÓTÁR az UKRAJNA TERMÉSZETI FÖLDRAJZA tantárgyhoz|publisher=II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola|accessdate=2019-04-20|language=hu}}</ref><ref name="BSZE">{{cite web|url=http://bse.sci-lib.com/article107181.html|title=Стырь|publisher=Большая Советская Энциклопедия|accessdate=2019-04-20|language=ru}}</ref>

The Styr begins near [[Brody]], [[Lviv Oblast]], then flows into [[Rivne Oblast]], [[Volyn Oblast]], then into [[Brest Region]] of [[Belarus]] where it finally flows into the Pripyat.

Notable settlements located on the river are [[Lutsk]], [[Staryi Chortoryisk]] and [[Varash]].

==History==
During the [[Khmelnytskyi Uprising]], the [[Battle of Berestechko]] took place in 1651 on the river between armies of the [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]] and the [[Cossacks]] of [[Bohdan Khmelnytsky]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Hrushevsky, M.|year=2004|series=History of Ukraine-Rus|volume= Nine, Book One|title=The Cossack Age, 1650–1653|location=Toronto|publisher= Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies|isbn=1895571227|pages= 304–305}}</ref>

During 1915–1916, the Styr river was the front line between the [[Austria-Hungary|Austro-Hungarian]] and [[Imperial Russia]]n armies.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MELYAgAAQBAJ|title=From Warsaw, Through Łuck, Siberia, and Back to Warsaw|author=Marian Feldman|author-link1=Marian Feldman|publisher=Lulu Inc|year=2009|pages=32|isbn=9780557093731}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rW2ZCwAAQBAJ|chapter=XXIII|title=The Story of the Great War, Volume 4: The World War|publisher=VM eBooks|year=2016|author=Churchill, Miller, and Reynolds}}</ref>

The river was also a barrier to the German invasion on June 22, 1941, during [[Operation Barbarossa]] on the South-Western Front.

==Tributaries==
* Left: [[Radostavka]], [[Sudylivka]], [[Chornohuzka]], {{ill|Lypa (river)|lt=Lypa|uk|Липа (річка)}}, [[Serna (river)|Serna]], [[Liutytsia]], [[Okinka]], [[Richytsia]], [[Zhyduvka]], [[Omelianyk]]
* Right: [[Ikva]], [[Slonivka]], [[Pliashivka]], [[Boldurka]], [[Liubka]], [[Rudka (Styr)|Rudka]], [[Kormyn]], Riv, [[Konopelka]], [[Sapalayivka]]

==Images==
<gallery>
File:Ukraine Fluesse mitName Oblast Wolhynien.png|The Styr River on the map of Volyn Oblast
File:Dnepr basin-Ukr.png|[[Dnieper]] basin

File:Іній - panoramio.jpg|In frost near [[Boratyn, Volyn Oblast|Boratyn]]
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:International rivers of Europe]]
[[Category:Rivers of Belarus]]
[[Category:Rivers of Brest region]]
[[Category:Rivers of Lviv Oblast]]
[[Category:Rivers of Rivne Oblast]]
[[Category:Rivers of Volyn Oblast]]