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    Maritsa (redirect from Evros river)
    Марица [mɐˈrit͡sɐ]), also known as Evros (Greek: Έβρος [ˈevros]) and Meriç (Turkish: Meriç [meɾit͡ʃ]), is a river that runs through the Balkans in Southeast...
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    river Evros, which appears to have been a Thracian hydronym. Evros is the northernmost regional unit. It borders Turkey to the east, across the river...
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  • The Evros River incident of 19 December 1986 was a skirmish between Greek and Turkish soldiers along the Evros river, near the town of Feres on the Greco-Turkish...
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  • Evros may refer to: the Greek name of the Maritsa river running through Bulgaria and forming the land border between Turkey and Greece Evros (regional...
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  • damage from floods in 2005. List of settlements in the Evros regional unit http://www.e-evros.gr/index.php?lang=en "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού -...
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    [ˈaɾda]) is a 290-kilometre-long (180 mi) river in Bulgaria and Greece. It is a tributary of the Maritsa (or Evros). Its source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope...
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    Greece, between the Nestos and Evros rivers in the northeast of the country; East Thrace, which lies east of the river Evros, forms the European part of...
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    The events at the Greek-Turkish border along the Evros river in 2020 began on 28 February 2020 when the Turkish government announced that in response...
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    2014, while in the Evros floods of 2021 the largest floods took place throughout the city and the general Evros and Erythropotamos river areas. Didymoteicho...
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    February 2017, five Turkish commandos illegally entered Greece through the Evros river. However, once they entered the country, the group split. The two of...
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    to the Via Egnatia between Thessaloniki and the Turkish border on the Evros river, while its western, Thessaloniki-Igoumenitsa stretch runs far south of...
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  • July – A border guard is shot and injured while on patrol along the Evros River forming the border with Turkey. 29 July – A ban on the commercial slaughter...
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    Orestiada (redirect from Lepti, Evros)
    within 15 days to positions east of Evros. As a result, Adrianople (renamed Edirne) which is located to the east of Evros, became Turkish, but Karagatch (Karaağaç)...
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  • Serbian Empire. The Bulgarian Empire also acquired territory north of the Evros river. In 1341, the Byzantine Empire was in a state of turmoil, and despite...
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  • Crossing, Evros regional unit (41°44′51.5″N 26°09′58.6″E / 41.747639°N 26.166278°E / 41.747639; 26.166278) Northernmost settlement — Ormenio, Evros regional...
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    Soufli (category Populated places in Evros (regional unit))
    the Bulgarian border at Ormenio. The town center is only 500m from the Evros River. Soufli is the seat of the municipality of Soufli. Archaeological finds...
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    (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), was an ancient Greek settlement next to the Evros river in Thrace, near or at the site of present-day Edirne, and close to the...
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    (CHP). Enez consists of an old town centre, backing on to the Meriç/Evros river forming the border with neighbouring Greece; the harbour and Pırlanta...
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  • War 1976–2016 Corsican conflict 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt 1986 Evros River incident 1988–1994 First Nagorno-Karabakh War 1989–1995 Gagauzia conflict...
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  • known as Sırcık or Kırcık in Ottoman sources), a busy ferry-place on the Evros river about 6 km (4 mi) east from Didymoteicho, and that his tomb was built...
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    Petrich World War II Greek Civil War Korean War Turkish Invasion of Cyprus Evros River incident Somali Civil War 1997 Albanian civil unrest Gulf War Kosovo...
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  • Evros and in the Aegean. A 2014 academic paper states that many migrants had been pushed back by Greek authorities and Frontex along the Evros river and...
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    Igoumenitsa, and the EO51 road towards Alexandroupolis and Ormenio. The Evros river forms the border with Turkey to the east. Feres grew out of the Theotokos...
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    at Doriskos at the Evros river estuary where the Asian army was linked up with the Balkan allies, at Eion on the Strymon river, and at Therme, modern-day...
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    profile incidents between the countries. In 1986 by the border at the Evros River, a Greek soldier was shot dead. In 1987, the Turkish survey ship Sismik...
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    Wayback Machine danube.panda.org/wwf/web/search/details.jsp?pid=139 "Evros River". "Eurostat - Tables, Graphs and Maps Interface (TGM) table". Archived...
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  • in 1976, it has been guarding the Greco-Turkish land border along the Evros River, and is the most powerful formation in the Hellenic Army. The IV Army...
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    territory between the Strymon River and a line of demarcation running through Alexandroupoli and Svilengrad west of the Evros River. The Greek capital Athens...
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  • the period of 12 January and February 2021, the rivers Erythropotamos (Greek: Ερυθροπόταμος) and Evros (Greek: Έβρος) also known as Maritsa (Bulgarian:...
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    allies, defeats 80,000 of Pechenegs (including women and children) at the Evros River, near Enos (modern Turkey). The Cumans and Byzantine forces fall upon...
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