Struma River
The Struma or Strymonas is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. Its ancient name was Strymon. Its drainage area is 17,330 km in North Macedonia and Serbia. 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.
- Type: River
- Description: river in Bulgaria and Greece
- Also known as: “Estrimon”, “Estrimón”, “Kara su”, “Karasu”, “Potamós Strimón”, “Potamós Strimonas”, “Rijeka Struma”, “Rio Estrimon”, “Rio Estrímon”, “Río Struma”, “Rio Strymon”, “Strimon”, “Strimone”, “Stroema”, “Strouma”, “Struma”, “Strumas”, “Strumón Potamós”, “Strumós”, “Strymōn”, “Strymonas”, “Strymónas”, “Strymónas River”, “Στρυμώνας”, “Река Струма”, “Стримон”, “Стримонас”, “Стрімон”, “Стрімонас”, “סטרימונס”, “ஸ்ட்ரிமோனாஸ்”, “ஸ்ட்ரைமோன் ஆறு”, “ストゥルマ川”, “斯垂蒙河”, and “斯特里蒙河”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Lion of Amphipolis and Macedonian Tomb I, Argilos.
Macedonian Tomb I, Argilos
Archaeological site
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nea Kerdylia and Sykia.
Nea Kerdylia
Village
Nea Kerdylia is a village in the municipality of Amphipolis, in Central Macedonia, Greece.
Struma River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Greece, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Struma River” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Στρυμών”
- Arabic: “نهر ستروما”
- Armenian: “Ստրումա (գետ)”
- Armenian: “Ստրումա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Struma”
- Basque: “Struma”
- Belarusian: “Струма”
- Breton: “Struma”
- Bulgarian: “Струма”
- Catalan: “Estrímon”
- Cebuano: “Struma River”
- Chinese: “斯特魯馬河”
- Chinese: “斯特鲁马河”
- Croatian: “Struma”
- Czech: “Struma”
- Danish: “Strimonas”
- Danish: “Struma”
- Dutch: “Strymon”
- Esperanto: “Struma”
- Estonian: “Struma jõgi”
- Estonian: “Struma”
- Finnish: “Struma”
- French: “Strymon”
- French: “Strymonas”
- Georgian: “სტრუმა”
- German: “Struma”
- German: “Strymonas”
- Greek: “Strymónas Potamós”
- Greek: “Στρυμόνας Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Στρυμόνας”
- Hebrew: “סטרומה”
- Hungarian: “Sztruma”
- Indonesian: “Struma”
- Irish: “Struma”
- Italian: “Struma”
- Japanese: “ストルマ川”
- Korean: “스트루마강”
- Ladin: “Struma”
- Latin: “Strymon”
- Latvian: “Struma”
- Lithuanian: “Struma”
- Macedonian: “Струма”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Struma”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Struma”
- Norwegian: “Struma”
- Persian: “رود استروما”
- Polish: “Struma”
- Portuguese: “Rio Struma”
- Romanian: “Râul Struma”
- Russian: “Струма”
- Serbian: “Struma”
- Serbian: “Струма”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Struma”
- Slovak: “Struma”
- Slovenian: “Struma”
- South Azerbaijani: “استروما چایی”
- Spanish: “río Estrimón”
- Spanish: “Río Estrimón”
- Swedish: “Struma”
- Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரூமா ஆறு”
- Tamil: “ஸ்ட்ரூமா”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำสตรูมา”
- Turkish: “Struma Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Струма”
- Upper Sorbian: “Struma”
- Venetian: “Fiume Estrimón”
- Western Armenian: “Սթրիմոնաս”
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ηρακλείτσα and Limani.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Τσουράκι-Γέφυρα (Αμφίπολης) and Strymonas.
Greece: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Athens and Thessaloniki.
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