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AA, the name of a large number of small European rivers. The word is derived from the [Old German]? aha, cognate to the Latin aqua, water (cf. Ger.-ach; Scand. a, aa, pronounced o).

The following are the more important streams of this name:--Two rivers in the west of Russia, both falling into the [Gulf of Riga]?, near Riga, which is situated between them; a river in the north of France, falling into the sea below Gravelines, and navigable as far as St Omer; and a river of Switzerland, in the cantons of Lucerne? and Aargau, which carries the waters of Lakes Baldegger and Hallwiler into the Aar.

In Germany there are the Westphalian Aa, rising in the Teutoburger Wald, and joining the Werre? at Herford?, the Munster Aa, a tributary of the Ems, and others.

In the Netherlands, a river in Groningen province that flows through Groningen city.


Source: An unnamed encyclopedia from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the thinking of the turn of the last century.

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