| Sula | |||||||||||
| Source1 Location: | Sumy Oblast | ||||||||||
| Mouth: | Dnieper | ||||||||||
| Mouth Coordinates: | 49.5553°N 32.7544°W | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Type1: | Country | ||||||||||
| Subdivision Name1: | Ukraine | ||||||||||
| Length: | 363km (226miles) | ||||||||||
| Discharge1 Avg: | 29 m3 | ||||||||||
| Basin Size: | 19600km2 | ||||||||||
| Tributaries Right: | Romen, Uday | ||||||||||
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The Sula (Ukrainian: Сула́; Russian: Су́ла) is a left tributary of the Dnieper with a total length of and a drainage basin of .[1] [2] [3] [4]
The river flows into the Dnieper through the Kremenchuk Reservoir, with which it forms a large delta with numerous islands, on which rare kinds of birds live. An important tributary is the Uday, smaller ones being Orzhytsya, Sliporid, Romen and Tern.
Large cities located on the river are Romny, Lokhvytsia and Lubny.
The river's name evokes slow or muddy waters considering the words it is related to: Lithuanian/Latvian sulà "birch sap", Old Prussian sulo "curdled milk", Norwegian dialectal saula "dirt", Sanskrit súrā "spiritous liquor", and Avestan hurā "intoxicating drink, kumis".[5] Another etymology of the hydronym Sula is the Turkic suly, 'filled with water, wet'.[6]