Arda River
The Arda is a 290-kilometre-long river in Bulgaria and Greece. It is a tributary of the Maritsa. Its source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains near the village Arda, part of the municipality of Smolyan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Bulgaria and Greece
- Also known as: “Arda”, “Árdhas Potamós”, “Arnesos”, “Arpíssos”, and “Kharnesos”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pazarkule Border Gate and İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum.
Pazarkule Border Gate
Border checkpoint
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pazarkule Border Gate is a border checkpoint.
İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum
Museum
Photo: Hamdigumus, CC0.
İlhan Koman Sculpture and Painting Museum is situated 2½ km east of Arda River.
Kastanee
Railway stop
Kastanies railway station is a railway stop in Kastanies, Greece. It was opened in 1971 by the OSE. It is one of the northernmost railway stops in Greece, close to the Turkish border. lies 1.1 km from the village center, down an unnamed road on the edge of the village.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marasia and Karaağaç.
Marasia
Village
Marasia is a village in the northern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Marasia is part of the municipal unit of Trigono. It is situated between the rivers Evros and Ardas, close to their confluence.
Karaağaç
Suburb
Karaağaç is a neighbourhood of the city Edirne, Edirne District, Edirne Province, northwestern Turkey. Its population is 3,062. It is situated at the border with Greece.
Kastanies
Village
Photo: arjenD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kastanies is a town located in northern part of the regional unit of Evros, Greece, and is part of the municipal unit of Vyssa. It is situated at the border with Turkey.
Arda River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Arda River” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Արդա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Arda”
- Bulgarian: “Арда”
- Catalan: “riu Arda”
- Catalan: “Riu Arda”
- Cebuano: “Arda River”
- Chinese: “阿尔达河”
- Chinese: “阿爾達河”
- Croatian: “Arda”
- Czech: “Arda”
- Dutch: “Arda (rivier in Thracie)”
- Dutch: “Arda”
- Estonian: “Arda jõgi”
- Estonian: “Arda”
- Finnish: “Arda”
- French: “Arda”
- Georgian: “არდა”
- German: “Arda”
- German: “Artiscus”
- Greek: “Árdas Potamós”
- Greek: “Άρδας Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Άρδας”
- Hebrew: “ארדה”
- Hungarian: “Arda”
- Irish: “Arda”
- Italian: “Arda”
- Japanese: “アルダス川”
- Japanese: “アルダ川 (マリツァ川)”
- Korean: “아르다강”
- Ladin: “Arda”
- Latvian: “Arda”
- Lithuanian: “Arda”
- Macedonian: “Арда”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arda i Bulgaria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Arda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Arda i Bulgaria”
- Norwegian: “Arda”
- Ossetian: “Ардæ”
- Persian: “آردا (ماریتسا)”
- Persian: “آردا”
- Polish: “Arda”
- Polish: “Ardas”
- Portuguese: “Rio Arda”
- Russian: “Арда”
- Russian: “Ардас”
- Serbian: “Arda”
- Serbian: “Арда”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Arda”
- Slovenian: “Arda”
- Spanish: “Rio Arda”
- Spanish: “Río Arda”
- Swedish: “Arda”
- Swedish: “Ardas”
- Swedish: “Арда”
- Turkish: “Arda Nehri”
- Turkish: “Arda”
- Ukrainian: “Арда”
- Uzbek: “Arda (Maritsa irmogʻi)”
- Uzbek: “Arda”
- Venetian: “Fiume Arda”
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