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Neris (, (ベラルーシ語:Ві́лія Viliya), (ポーランド語:'Wilia')) is a river rising in Belarus. It flows through Vilnius (Lithuania) and becomes a tributary of the Neman River (Nemunas) at Kaunas (Lithuania). Its length is . For the river runs through Belarus, where it is called Viliya, and runs through Lithuania, where it is called Neris. The Neris connects two old Lithuanian capitals – Kernavė and Vilnius. Along its banks are burial places of the pagan Lithuanians. At from Vilnius are the old burial mounds of Karmazinai, with many mythological stones and a sacred oak. ==Dual naming== The reasons for the dual naming of the river as Neris by the Lithuanians and Viliya (formerly ''Velja'', meaning "big, great" in Slavic) by the Slavs are complex. Even in Vilnius, there are toponyms including both names, e. g. ''Neris'' remains in the riverside names of ''Paneriai'' and ''Paneriškės'' while ''Velja'' is a part of the name ''Valakampiai'', which means "an angle of Velja" in Lithuanian.〔Vykintas Vaitkevičius (Mysterious Neris ), ''Šiaurės Atėnai''. 2005-07-23 nr. 758 〕 Although it has been suggested that ''Neris'' is the primeval name of the river, while name ''Viliya'' is of a secondary extraction,〔 the dual naming most probably emerged from the confluence of rivers Neris (now known as Narach River, leaving Lake Narach) and Velja, in the historical Slavic/Baltic borderland, each ethnos choosing their own name for the river starting at the confluence.〔 It is moreover evidenced by the fact that the name ''Neris'' was never used to name the river Velja up to this confluence. Therefore, it has been proposed that the Narach River had in fact been considered the upper reaches of Neris by the Balts in ancient times.〔S. Kolupaila, ''Narutis ir Neris'', ''Kosmos'', 1940, Nr. 1/3, p. 52〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Neris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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