Lim

The Lim is a 219 km (136 mi) long river that runs through Montenegro, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is also the right and longest tributary of the Drina.

Lim is a part of the Black Sea drainage basin, which includes the Drina, Sava, and Danube rivers. Its drainage basin is 5,968 km2 (2,304 sq mi) and the river is not navigable.

It receives many smaller streams in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the two most important are its major right tributaries in Serbia, the Uvac and the Mileševa river.

There are three possible explanations for the name's etymology:

• Latin origin derived from the word limes, which means border;
• Celtic origin derived from the root llyn or llym, which means water or lake. Miloš Crnjanski supported this version in the section Celts in our rivers of his book British-Balkan connections: Prehistory Connections;
• Albanian origin from the root lymë, which means "river".

Length: 219 km (136 mi)