Pruth
a left-hand affluent of the Danube, rising in the S. E. of Austrian Galicia, on the N. E. side of the Carpathian Mountains, and flowing E. past PRZASNYSZ Kolomea and Czernowitz; from the point at which it leaves Austrian territory to its embouchure in the Danube at Reni, 13 miles below Galatz, it forms the boundary between Russian Bessarabia and Rumania. Length about 520 miles, navigable from near Jassy, 168 miles.
It was the scene of many military operations between the Russian and Austro- German armies in the World War (1914-1918).