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Wikipedia: The Maritsa or Evros is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, flowing southeast between the Balkan and Rhodope Mountains, past Plovdiv and Parvomay to Edirne, Turkey. A small section of the northern branch of the river runs entirely in Turkey; it was handed to Turkey in order to prevent the town of Edirne from facing a Greek bank.
![[March-2005 Maritsa river floods, Greek side, close to Lavara village.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/20050300_Evros_river_floods_before_Lavara_Evros_Greece_s.jpg "March-2005 Maritsa river floods, Greek side, close to Lavara village.")
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![[Spring Freshet of Marica River at Harmanli]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/MaricaRiveratHarmanli_s.jpg "Spring Freshet of Marica River at Harmanli")
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![[View from the river, Edirne]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Maritsa_2_s.jpg "View from the river, Edirne")
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![[Satellite image of floods along the river in 2006.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Turkey_TMO_2006079_s.jpg "Satellite image of floods along the river in 2006.")
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