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March-2005 Maritsa river floods, Greek side, close to Lavara village. Satellite image of floods along the river in 2006. The lower course of the river Maritsa, where it forms the border between Greece and Turkey, is very vulnerable to flooding. For about 4 months every year, the low lands around the river are flooded.
Articles relating to the river Maritsa (also known as Meriç and Evros) and its history. It is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe. With a length of 480 km (300 mi), it is the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkan peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe by discharge.
The Parvenetska reka (Bulgarian: Първенецка река) is a 37 km-long river in southern Bulgaria, a right tributary of the river Maritsa. [1]The river takes its source under the name Ribnevo dere at an altitude of 1,816 m some 500 m west of the summit of Modar (1,992 m) in the Chernatisa ridge of western Rhodope mountain range.
The river takes its source at an altitude of 1,743 m in the Batak Mountain of western Rhodope mountain range, 1.3 km west of the Kartela locality on the road between the towns of Batak and Dospat. Until the town of Peshtera it flows in a north-northeastern direction in a deep, at places canyon-like, valley which widens only in the area around ...
The Arda (Bulgarian: Арда, Greek: Άρδας, Turkish: Arda) is a 290-kilometre-long (180 mi) river in Bulgaria and Greece.It is a tributary of the Maritsa (or Evros). ). Its source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains near the village Arda, part of the municipality of Smol
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).
Ergene (Turkish: Ergene Nehri; Ancient Greek: Εργίνης, Eryinis) is a major left tributary of the Maritsa (Meriç) river, flowing entirely in the East Thrace region of Turkey. The river rises from the southern part of Strandzha mountain, not far from the Black Sea and flows for 281 km before entering the Maritsa near the Turkish city of ...
At the village of Golyamo Belovo the Yadenitsa valley widens and 3 km downstream it flows into the Maritsa at an altitude of 317 m near the town of Belovo. [1] Its drainage basin covers a territory of 138 km 2 or 0.26% of Maritsa's total. [1] The river has snow-rain feed with high water in April–May and low water in September.