Maritsa River
Maritsa or Maritza, also known as Evros and Meriç, is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast Europe. With a length of 480 km, it is the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkan peninsula, and one of the largest in Europe by discharge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the Balkans
- Also known as: “Evros”, “Ewros-Fluss”, “Hevres”, “Hevros”, “Maritsa”, and “River Maritza”
- Historically known as: “Aebura”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Enez.
Enez
Photo: Aziz Akbiyik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Enez is a small town in Eastern Thrace, the European part of Turkey. It's on the Aegean coast at the outflow of the river Meriç or Maritsa, which forms the border with Greece.
Maritsa River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Alexandroupoli, Evros, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Armenian—“Maritsa River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Maritsa”
- Arabic: “ماريتسا”
- Arabic: “مريج”
- Arabic: “مَرِيجُ”
- Armenian: “Մարիցա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Maritsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Maritsa çayı”
- Basque: “Maritsa”
- Belarusian: “Марыца”
- Belarusian: “Рака Марыца”
- Breton: “Maritsa”
- Bulgarian: “Марица”
- Bulgarian: “Хеброс”
- Bulgarian: “Хебър”
- Catalan: “Evros”
- Catalan: “Évros”
- Catalan: “Hebros”
- Catalan: “Maritsa”
- Catalan: “Maritza”
- Catalan: “Meriç”
- Catalan: “Riu Maritza”
- Cebuano: “Maritsa River”
- Chinese: “馬里查河”
- Chinese: “马里查河”
- Croatian: “Marica”
- Czech: “Marica”
- Danish: “Maritsa”
- Dutch: “Evros”
- Dutch: “Évros”
- Dutch: “Maritsa”
- Dutch: “Meric”
- Dutch: “Meriç”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ماريتسا”
- Esperanto: “Marico”
- Estonian: “Marica”
- Finnish: “Évros”
- Finnish: “Maritsa”
- French: “Évros”
- French: “Hèbre”
- French: “Maritsa”
- French: “Maritza”
- French: “Meriç”
- French: “Méritch”
- Galician: “Río Maritsa”
- Georgian: “მარიცა”
- German: “Evros”
- German: “Hebros”
- German: “Maritza”
- German: “Mariza”
- German: “Meric Nehri”
- Greek: “Évros Potamós”
- Greek: “Έβρος”
- Greek: “Μαρίτσα”
- Hebrew: “אוורוס”
- Hebrew: “מאריצה”
- Hebrew: “מריץ‘”
- Hebrew: “מריצה”
- Hebrew: “נהר המריצה”
- Hungarian: “Marica”
- Indonesian: “Euros”
- Indonesian: “Evros”
- Indonesian: “Hebros”
- Indonesian: “Maritsa”
- Indonesian: “Maritza”
- Indonesian: “Meriç”
- Interlingua: “Maritsa”
- Irish: “Maritsa”
- Italian: “Evros”
- Italian: “Hebros”
- Italian: “Marica”
- Italian: “Marizza”
- Japanese: “エヴロス川”
- Japanese: “マリーツァ川”
- Japanese: “マリツァ川”
- Japanese: “マリッツァ川”
- Kazakh: “Марица өзені”
- Kirghiz: “Марица”
- Korean: “마리차강”
- Ladin: “Maritsa”
- Latin: “Hebrus”
- Latin: “Maritsa”
- Latvian: “Marica”
- Lithuanian: “Evras”
- Lithuanian: “Marica”
- Macedonian: “Марица”
- Mingrelian: “მარიცა”
- Northern Frisian: “Maritsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Evros”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Maritsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Meriç”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hebrus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maritsa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meric”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meriç”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Εβρος”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Марица”
- Norwegian: “Maritsa”
- Ossetian: “Марицæ”
- Persian: “ماریتسا”
- Polish: “Marica”
- Portuguese: “Maritsa”
- Portuguese: “Rio Evros”
- Portuguese: “Rio Maritsa”
- Romanian: “Evros”
- Romanian: “Raul Marita”
- Romanian: “Râul Marița”
- Russian: “Гебр”
- Russian: “Марица”
- Serbian: “Marica”
- Serbian: “Марица”
- Serbian: “Река Марица”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Marica”
- Slovak: “Marica”
- Slovenian: “Marica”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماریتسا چایی”
- Spanish: “Hebro”
- Spanish: “Maritsa”
- Spanish: “Rio Marica”
- Spanish: “Río Marica”
- Spanish: “Rio Maritsa”
- Spanish: “río Maritsa”
- Spanish: “Río Maritsa”
- Spanish: “Rio Maritza”
- Spanish: “Río Maritza”
- Swedish: “Hebros”
- Swedish: “Hebrus”
- Swedish: “Maritsa”
- Swedish: “Meric”
- Swedish: “Meriç”
- Tamil: “மாரிட்சா”
- Tamil: “ஹெப்ரஸ்”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำมาริตซา”
- Turkish: “Meriç Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Meriç Nehri”
- Turkish: “Meriç”
- Ukrainian: “Еврос”
- Ukrainian: “Мариця”
- Ukrainian: “Маріца”
- Upper Sorbian: “Evros”
- Upper Sorbian: “Marica”
- Upper Sorbian: “Meriç”
- Urdu: “مارتسا”
- Venetian: “Fiume Maritsa”
- Vietnamese: “Maritsa”
- Vietnamese: “Meriç”
- Western Armenian: “Էվրոս”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Maritsa River”. Photo: Styyx, CC BY-SA 4.0.