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It takes its source from the Vitosha Mountain in Bulgaria, runs first westward, then southward, forming a number of gorges, enters Greece near the village of Promachonas in eastern Macedonia. In Greece it is the main waterway feeding and exiting from Lake Kerkini, a significant centre for migratory wildfowl.
Struma River, river in western Bulgaria and northeastern Greece, rising in the Vitosha Massif of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria, southwest of Sofia. It follows a course of 258 miles (415 km) south-southeast via Pernik to the Aegean Sea , which it enters 30 miles (50 km) west-southwest of Kavála.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Several theories and scenarios of the emergence and spread of the Neolithic in present-day Bulgaria are reviewed through the evidence of the particular Early Neolithic flint toolkits...
Identifying the Pontos River with the Strumeshnitsa River means that the Sintians and Maedi4 dwelt along its lower course reaching the area where it lows into the river Strymon.
- Sotir Ivanov
The Strymon River is one of the most significant rivers in Northern Greece, flowing through the Serres region. Originating from Bulgaria's Vitosha Mountain, the river traverses about 400 kilometers before emptying into the Aegean Sea near Amphipolis.
Q204127. Strymon: river in Thrace. Today, it is called Struma (in Bulgarian) and Strymonas (in Greek). The poetic name Kara Su, "the black waters", is Turkish. The Strymon near Amphipolis.
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The Struma or Strymónas is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. Its ancient name was Strymṓn. Its drainage area is 17,330 km2 (6,690 sq mi), of which 8,670 km2 (3,350 sq mi) in Bulgaria, 6,295 km2 (2,431 sq mi) in Greece and the remaining 2,365 km2 (913 sq mi) in North Macedonia and Serbia.
