Glan (Nahe)
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The Glan (Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a river in southwestern Germany, right tributary of the Nahe. It is approximately Template:Convert long. It rises in the Saarland, northwest of Homburg. It flows generally north, through Rhineland-Palatinate, and empties into the Nahe near Odernheim am Glan, at Staudernheim, across the Nahe from Bad Sobernheim. Other towns along the Glan are Altenglan, Glan-Münchweiler, Lauterecken and Meisenheim.
Etymology
The Celtic root of the name comes either from glann (shining) or from glen (U-shaped valley).
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