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The Natisone (Latin: Natiso; Friulian
Friulian language

Friulian is a Romance languages belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian....
: Nadison; ) is a river of Eastern Friuli
Friuli

Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e....
, in north-eastern Italy. It is the main tributary of the Torre and a sub-affluent of the Isonzo.

The Natisone is formed at 415 m above sea level on the border between Friuli and Slovenia
Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
 by the confluence of two streams: the Rio Bianco and the Rio Nero which spring from the Punta di Montemaggiore and Gabrovec mountains.






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The Natisone (Latin: Natiso; Friulian
Friulian language

Friulian is a Romance languages belonging to the Rhaetian languages family, spoken in the Friuli region of northeastern Italy. Friulian has around 600,000 speakers, the vast majority of whom also speak Italian....
: Nadison; ) is a river of Eastern Friuli
Friuli

Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e....
, in north-eastern Italy. It is the main tributary of the Torre and a sub-affluent of the Isonzo.

The Natisone is formed at 415 m above sea level on the border between Friuli and Slovenia
Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north....
 by the confluence of two streams: the Rio Bianco and the Rio Nero which spring from the Punta di Montemaggiore and Gabrovec mountains. Before the confluence with the Torre, it passes through the communes of Pulfero
Pulfero

Pulfero is a comune in the Province of Udine in the Italy region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about 60 km northwest of Trieste and about 20 km northeast of Udine, on the border with Slovenia....
 and Cividale del Friuli
Cividale del Friuli

Cividale del Friuli is a town in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Northern Italy, 15 km by rail from Udine, whose province of Udine it belongs to....
.