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Struma

The Struma or Strymonas is a river in and . Its ancient name was Strymon. Its drainage area is 17,330 km in and . It takes its source from the in , runs first westward, then southward, forming a number of gorges, enters near the village of in eastern .
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  • Type: River
  • Description: river in Bulgaria and Greece
  • Also known as: “Potamós Strimón”, “Potamós Strimonas”, “Struma River”, “Strumón Potamós”, “Strymon”, “Strymonas”, and “Strymónas River”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lion of Amphipolis and Argilus.

Monument
Photo: Kkonstan, CC BY 3.0.
The is a 4th-century BC tomb sculpture near , , . According to Oscar Broneer and archaeologist Dimitris Lazaridis, the first person excavating in the area in the 1960s, it was set up in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, an important general of Alexander the Great, king of Macedon.

Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Argilos was a city of ancient Macedonia in the district Bisaltia, between and Bromiscus. It was founded by a colony from . It appears from Herodotus to have been a little to the right of the route of the army of Xerxes I took in its invasion of Greece in the Greco-Persian Wars, and must therefore have been situated a little inland.

Archaeological site
Photo: Schuppi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nea Kerdylia and Amphipolis.

Village
is a village in the . It is located on the national road Thessaloniki - Alexandroupolis and is 50 km away from , 70 km from .

Photo: Marsyas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was an important ancient Greek polis, and later a Roman city, whose large remains can still be seen. It gave its name to the modern municipality of , in the of .

Village
is a village and part of the municipal unit of in the southwest of the Kavala regional unit, . The community has a population of 1,958.

Struma

Latitude
40.7892° or 40° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
23.85211° or 23° 51′ 8″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
8GG5QVQ2+MR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 165537966
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­river
Geo­Names ID
726701
Wiki­data ID
Q204127
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Struma” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Στρυμών”
  • Arabic: “نهر ستروما”
  • Armenian: “Ստրումա (գետ)”
  • Armenian: “Ստրումա”
  • Asturian: “Ríu Struma”
  • Basque: “Estrimon”
  • Basque: “Struma”
  • Belarusian: “Струма”
  • Breton: “Struma”
  • Bulgarian: “Стримон”
  • Bulgarian: “Струма”
  • Catalan: “Estrímon”
  • Catalan: “Strymon”
  • Cebuano: “Struma River”
  • Chinese: “斯垂蒙河”
  • Chinese: “斯特里蒙河”
  • Chinese: “斯特魯馬河”
  • Chinese: “斯特鲁马河”
  • Croatian: “Struma”
  • Czech: “Struma”
  • Czech: “Strumós”
  • Czech: “Strymon”
  • Danish: “Strimonas”
  • Danish: “Struma”
  • Danish: “Strymon”
  • Danish: “Strymonas”
  • Danish: “Strymónas”
  • Dutch: “Strimon”
  • Dutch: “Stroema”
  • Dutch: “Strymon”
  • Esperanto: “Struma”
  • Estonian: “Struma jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Struma”
  • Finnish: “Struma”
  • Finnish: “Strymon”
  • French: “Strimonas”
  • French: “Strouma”
  • French: “Struma”
  • French: “Strymon”
  • French: “Strymonas”
  • Georgian: “სტრუმა”
  • German: “Struma”
  • German: “Strymon”
  • German: “Strymonas”
  • Greek: “Strymónas Potamós”
  • Greek: “Στρυμόνας Ποταμός”
  • Greek: “Στρυμόνας”
  • Greek: “Στρυμών”
  • Greek: “Στρυμώνας”
  • Hebrew: “סטרומה”
  • Hebrew: “סטרימונס”
  • Hungarian: “Sztruma”
  • Indonesian: “Struma”
  • Irish: “Struma”
  • Italian: “Strimone”
  • Italian: “Struma”
  • Italian: “Strymon”
  • Japanese: “ストゥルマ川”
  • Japanese: “ストルマ川”
  • Korean: “스트루마강”
  • Ladin: “Struma”
  • Latin: “Strymon”
  • Latvian: “Struma”
  • Lithuanian: “Strimonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Struma”
  • Lithuanian: “Strumas”
  • Macedonian: “Strimon”
  • Macedonian: “Strimonas”
  • Macedonian: “Струма”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Struma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Strymōn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Strymónas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Struma”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Strymōn”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Strymonas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Strymónas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Στρυμόνας”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Στρυμών”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Струма”
  • Norwegian: “Struma”
  • Persian: “رود استروما”
  • Polish: “Strimon”
  • Polish: “Strimonas”
  • Polish: “Struma”
  • Polish: “Strymon”
  • Portuguese: “Estrímon”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Estrímon”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Struma”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Strymon”
  • Portuguese: “Struma”
  • Romanian: “Râul Struma”
  • Romanian: “Strymon”
  • Russian: “Стримон”
  • Russian: “Струма”
  • Serbian: “Struma”
  • Serbian: “Река Струма”
  • Serbian: “Струма”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Rijeka Struma”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Strimon”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Struma”
  • Slovak: “Struma”
  • Slovak: “Strymonas”
  • Slovenian: “Strimon”
  • Slovenian: “Struma”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استروما چایی”
  • Spanish: “Estrimon”
  • Spanish: “Estrimón”
  • Spanish: “Rio Estrimon”
  • Spanish: “río Estrimón”
  • Spanish: “Río Estrimón”
  • Spanish: “Rio Struma”
  • Spanish: “Río Struma”
  • Spanish: “Struma”
  • Swedish: “Kara su”
  • Swedish: “Karasu”
  • Swedish: “Strimonas”
  • Swedish: “Struma”
  • Swedish: “Strymon”
  • Swedish: “Strymonas”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரிமோனாஸ்”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரூமா ஆறு”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரூமா”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரைமோன் ஆறு”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำสตรูมา”
  • Turkish: “Struma Nehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Стримон”
  • Ukrainian: “Стримонас”
  • Ukrainian: “Стрімон”
  • Ukrainian: “Стрімонас”
  • Ukrainian: “Струма”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Struma”
  • Venetian: “Fiume Estrimón”
  • Western Armenian: “Սթրիմոնաս”

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