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There are 540 rivers in Bulgaria. [1] The longest river in Bulgaria is the Danube (2,888 km), which spans most of the country's northern border for a length of 470 km. The longest one to run through the country (and also the deepest) is the Maritsa (480 km), while the longest river that runs solely in Bulgaria is the Iskar (368 km).
The average discharge is 24 m 3 /s, but it can grow to 40 m 3 /s, and the Timok is part of the Black Sea drainage basin. The main (right) tributaries in this section are Crna reka , Salaška reka , Sikolska reka and Čubarska reka (Cyrillic: Црна река, Салашка река, Сиколска река and Чубарска река).
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Seven Days to the River Rhine (Russian: «Семь дней до реки Рейн», romanized: "Sem' dney do reki Reyn") was a top-secret military simulation exercise developed at least since 1964 by the Warsaw Pact. It depicted the Soviet Bloc's vision of a seven-day nuclear war between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. [1] [2] [3]
The border at the Rezovo's mouth was the subject of a minor territorial dispute between Bulgaria and Turkey, which was settled in the 1990s. As a result of an agreement between the two countries of 6 May 1992 (ratified by Bulgaria in 1998), Bulgaria received a small land area of several square kilometres in the Rezovo Bay in return for water area in the continental shelf.
The Iskar is 368 km long, which makes it the longest river that runs entirely within the territory of Bulgaria. [3] [4] The Danube and the Maritsa rivers are both longer but they also flow through other countries. [5] The Iskar is a tributary to the Danube and forms part of the Black Sea river basin.
The average annual discharge of the park's rivers is 355,6 million m 3, of them 188,5 million m 3 flow to the Struma and 167,1 million m 3 to the Mesta. [34] The discharge from the park per square kilometre is 2.3 times larger than Pirin's average and 5.6 times larger than Bulgaria's average.
Its drainage area is about 53,000 km 2 (20,000 sq mi), of which 66.2% is in Bulgaria, 27.5% in Turkey, and 6.3% in Greece. [2] It is the main river of the historical region of Thrace, most of which lies in its drainage basin. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, its source being the Marichini Lakes.