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die Wachau (pron. vah-KHOW, stress on the last syllable)
   a scenic Danube river region in Austria, noted for its wine and fruit

Die Wachau ist eine etwas über 30 km lange Flusslandschaft zwischen Krems an der Donau und Melk.
The Wachau is a river landscape just over 30 km [19 mi] in length between Krems on the Danube and Melk [in Austria].
(Word origin: Wach = name of a stream + Au = meadow. Note: The Wachau was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000.)

Related Words:
Wachovia  Latin form of the German name Wachau*

*The U.S. bank named Wachovia took its name from a region of North Carolina settled by Moravians in 1753. They called the region “Wachau” (later “Wachovia”) after the ancestral land of their benefactor, Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. Founded in 1879, Wachovia became part of Wells Fargo in 2008 in a rescue deal organized by the U.S government.

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