Yaruga

Yaruga (Polish: Jaruga), or Yarra to the Nilfgaardians, is the largest river in the Northern Kingdoms, beginning in the FieryStanislav Komárek's map or Blue MountainsCD PROJEKT RED's map and flowing westward all the way to the Great Sea. The kingdoms of Cintra and Verden are located at the mouth of the river.
== History ==
During the First Landing, the first humans landed their ships in the mouth of the Yaruga, before colonising slowly eastward.
===Northern Wars===
In , midway through the First Northern War, the Nilfgaardian Army crossed the Yaruga after conquering Cintra and Upper Sodden, and was defeated in the Battle of Sodden Hill. They retreated back over the river and both the Nilfgaardians and the Northern armies reached a stalement with each side on either bank of the river. Some years later, in July , Nilfgaardian troops crossed the river again starting the Second Northern War.
By August, the Nilfgaardians set up a blockade across the mouth of the Yaruga against the Redanians, blocking their ships and goods from access to Skellige.
== Notes ==
* Danusia Stok, in her translation of , kept the Polish name spelling of the river, calling it Jaruga, but then switched to "Yaruga" in .
== Trivia ==
* The Yarra River, historically known as the Yarra Yarra, is a real river in Victoria, Australia. In the native Bunwurrung language, yarro is a word designsting a waterfall that was mistakenly applied to the whole river – originally named the Birrarung, "ever-flowing" – by European settlers.
* Jaruga is a Serbo-Croatian word that generally translates as "pit" but more accurately translates as "gully".
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