Nestos River
The Nestos or the Mesta is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. It rises in the Rila Mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering canyons toward the Aegean Sea through mostly metamorphic formations.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Papatrexas, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Bulgaria and Greece
- Also known as: “Karasú”, “Mesta”, “Nestos”, “Néstos Potamós”, and “Nestos-Fluss”
- Historically known as: “Mesta Karasu”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keramoti.
Keramoti
Photo: Shi Annan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keramoti is a holiday beach town in Macedonia in Greece. For many tourists it is just a stopover for the ferry to Thasos, but it has beautiful long sandy beaches, plenty of accommodation and restaurants, and many attractions in the area.
Nestos River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Bulgaria, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Nestos River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Armenian—“Nestos River” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νέστος”
- Armenian: “Մեստա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Nestos”
- Azerbaijani: “Mesta çayı”
- Azerbaijani: “Nestos”
- Azerbaijani: “Qarasu çayı”
- Basque: “Mesta (ibaia)”
- Basque: “Mesta”
- Bulgarian: “Карасу”
- Bulgarian: “Места”
- Bulgarian: “Нестос”
- Catalan: “Nestos”
- Catalan: “Nestus”
- Cebuano: “Mesta”
- Chinese: “奈斯托斯河”
- Chinese: “梅斯塔河”
- Croatian: “Mesta”
- Czech: “Mesta”
- Czech: “Nestos”
- Danish: “Nestos”
- Dutch: “Mesta”
- Esperanto: “Nestos”
- Finnish: “Néstos”
- French: “Mesta (Nestos)”
- French: “Mesta”
- French: “Nessos”
- French: “Nestos”
- French: “Nestus”
- Georgian: “მესტა”
- German: “Mesta”
- German: “Nestos”
- Greek: “Νέστος Ποταμός”
- Greek: “Νέστος”
- Hebrew: “נסטוס”
- Hungarian: “Meszta”
- Irish: “Nestos”
- Italian: “Mesta”
- Japanese: “ネストス川”
- Japanese: “メスタ・カラス”
- Japanese: “メスタ川”
- Kazakh: “Mesta”
- Kazakh: “Места”
- Kazakh: “مەستا”
- Ladin: “Nestos”
- Latvian: “Mesta”
- Lithuanian: “Mesta”
- Lithuanian: “Nestas”
- Macedonian: “Места”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mesta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nestos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Mesta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nestos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Νέστος”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Места”
- Norwegian: “Mesta”
- Persian: “نستوس”
- Polish: “Mesta”
- Polish: “Msta”
- Polish: “Nestos”
- Portuguese: “Rio Nesto”
- Romanian: “Nestos”
- Romanian: “Nestus”
- Romanian: “Râul Mesta”
- Romanian: “Râul Nestos”
- Russian: “Места”
- Russian: “Нестос”
- Serbian: “Nestos”
- Serbian: “Места”
- Serbian: “Нестос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mesta”
- Sicilian: “Nestos”
- Slovenian: “Mesta”
- Slovenian: “Nestos”
- Spanish: “Mesta”
- Spanish: “Nesto”
- Spanish: “Nestos”
- Spanish: “Rio Mecma”
- Spanish: “Río Mecma”
- Spanish: “río Mesta”
- Spanish: “Río Mesta”
- Spanish: “Río Nesto”
- Spanish: “Río Nestos”
- Swedish: “Mesta”
- Swedish: “Nestos”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำเนสทอส”
- Turkish: “Mesta Karasu Nehri”
- Turkish: “Nestos Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Места”
- Ukrainian: “Нестос”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mesta”
- Vietnamese: “Nestos”
- Western Armenian: “Նեսթոս”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Dasochori and Monastiraki.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ákra Karasú and Escombe Point.
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