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  Struma River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Struma or Strymónas (Bulgarian: Струма, IPA /'struma/, Greek: Στρυμόνας /stri'monas/) is a river in Bulgaria and Greece.
The river valley is a coal-producing area of Bulgaria.
The Ancient Greek city of Amphipolis was founded at the river's entrance to the Aegean, and the Battle of Kleidion was fought by the river in 1014.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Struma_River   (255 words)

  
 Dragovištica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The river belongs to the Aegean Sea drainage basin and is not navigable.
From the village of Božica on the river is known as the Božička reka ("river of Božica").
The river flows through the southern slopes of the Zemenska planina mountain and through the dual village of Dragovishtitsa (consisting of two villages, Perivol on the right bank and Yamborano on the left bank of the river).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dragovishtitsa   (450 words)

  
 Struma - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
The Struma was a ship commissioned by the Revisionist Zionist organizations in Romania, especially Betar, to carry Romanian Jews as illegal immigrants to British-controlled Palestine.
It was attended by 60 relatives of Struma victims, representatives of the Jewish community of Turkey, the Israeli ambassador and prime minister's envoy, as well as British and American delegates.
Struma is a medical term for the enlargement of the thyroid; it is sometimes used in reference to scrofula, a form of tuberculosis.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Struma   (800 words)

  
 struma - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Greece’s rivers are relatively short, and many dry up in the summer.
The principal river draining Bulgaria is the Danube.
Pernik, city in western Bulgaria on the Struma River, near the city of Sofia.
ca.encarta.msn.com /struma.html   (84 words)

  
 water.htm
Unpolluted is the water of the rivers Struma down to Pernik town, and from Pchelina (Lobosh) reservoir to Gyueshevska (Sovolyanska) Bistritsa River.
There is a tendency observed to preservation of the water quality in the Struma basin in 2001 and a significant deterioration of the river section downstream of Blagoevgrad town, where the hot spot was upgraded from a local to a national one and the river ecosystems degraded on a large scale.
In distinct sections of the Struma River basin there is a tendency to abrupt deterioration of the ecological status (the area of Blagoevgrad town).
nfp-bg.eionet.eu.int /eea/en/publicat/2001/water/water.htm   (524 words)

  
 Struma/Strymon River Sub-basin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Struma River springs from the southern slopes of Vitosha Mountain, at an elevation of 2,180 m.
The mid and down stream sections of the river catchment are fed from the east by the highest Bulgarian mountains of the Rila and Pirin ranges, and from the west by the so-called "Surrounding mountains".
Aggitis (from Krinides to the junction with Strymonas river)
www.inweb.gr /workshops/sub_basins/11_Strymon.html   (4045 words)

  
 Medite - Sandanski property - Natural resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
In the region of Sandanski Struma river is a resource III category and it is characterized with extremely changeable and unstable flow regime.
The hydrological regime along the river is characterized with a period of high water - level from the middle of February till the beginning of July and with a period of low water-level from the beginning of July till the end of October.
The river's water is with neutral to slightly alkine reaction and pH varies from 7,0 to 7,8.
www.bgland.info /sandanski/pages/sandanski/natural-resources.php   (373 words)

  
 SAVE KRESNA GORGE - The Impact
The River Struma is a very important corridor for the seasonal and the long-term migrations of plants, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, bats and mammals in the South - North direction.
A motorway through the gorge means that the trucks will pass at a distance of 200-250 meters from the houses of the villages of Cherniche (situated in the West, in parallel to the railway and the road) and the village of Poleto (East to the road), and 550 meters away from the town of Krupnik.
The most fertile of the agricultural lands in the region are situated in the river valleys - alongside the Struma River and in the wider side valleys.
www.kresna.org /effect_en.php   (1926 words)

  
 *** Visit to Bulgaria : STRUMA RIVER, Bulgaria *** - Travel guide and Search engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
The river's length to the border is 290 km.
In the river valley of the Struma River there are 56 artificial lakes with a total volume of 141 mln cub.m.
The sections from the town of Pernik to the town of Radomir and from the flow of the Djerman River at the village of Draganovo are highly polluted.
get.info.bg /Visit/dir.asp?d=0-4-Nature-Bulgarian_Rivers-Struma_River   (359 words)

  
 SAVE KRESNA GORGE - The People
The limited arable land is situated mostly in the valley of the Struma River and its tributaries.
The Struma River, flowing through the Kresna Gorge, is the best place in Bulgaria for extreme water sports (such as rafting).
This section of the river is one of the most visited by rafters and kayakers of all skill levels.
www.kresna.org /people_en.php   (316 words)

  
 duniw.htm
The water resources formed by river water under disturbed conditions for the region are 775.58 million m3, or 37% of the annual norm — recorded at 2 HMtS (Struma River-Krupnik village, Mesta River-Momina Kula place).
The annual values of the natural river resources and their percentage on the annual norm fluctuate within the interval 55.44% (Struma River) — 71.67% (Mesta River) (table 2.8).
The surface water natural resources of the areas lacking permanent rivers are 117.6 million m3, which accounts for 61.83% of the annual norm.
nfp-bg.eionet.eu.int /eea/en/publicat/2001/water/wsblswhf.htm   (371 words)

  
 Plum Ruby Review | Fiction...Poetry...Art...Memoir...Travel...Life
The sky was full of snow and wind, the trees in front of the café looked like stubbly old men in the white air; it was cold in the narrow room overlooking the Struma River that flowed tired, grumbling to the rocks and the empty plastic bottles floating in the water.
She lived in the café, in the backroom overlooking the Struma River ; in fact she lived almost in the river like the guys who serviced the big truck, which collected the garbage in the Main Street.
In the weekdays, he stopped her in the café to smell the collar of her blue apron, “You smell sweet,” he said, but that could hardly be true since cigarette smoke crept up to the ceiling and the room was thick with suspicious odors of boots, wet coats and what not.
www.plumrubyreview.com /oct04/fiction/evtimova.htm   (2384 words)

  
 local minds
She lived in the café, in the backroom overlooking the Struma River; in fact she lived almost in the river like the guys who serviced the big truck, which collected the garbage in the Main Street.
In the evenings he looked at Viah as is he could buy her the Struma River from its source up to the Greek border, and if she didn’t invite him to the backroom where she lived behind the coffee machine, the cups and the glasses, he would waylay her at the threshold, drunk and mad.
She could rent another café, a little warm hole, far away from the Struma River, from the bearded snowy willows, the dark eyes that she liked better than any brandy under the sun.
www.localminds.com /prose_evtimova_olivesen.html   (2455 words)

  
 Bakalova, G. 2004. Factors for Native Gold-bearing Capacity in a Part of the Catchment Basin of Struma River near ...
The present paper deals with a part of the catchment basin of Struma River in area of the towns of Kjustendil and Blagoevgrad.
This is the region laying to the west of the river up to the state border with republic Macedonia and between the tributaries Banshtitsa and Drenovska.
The studied area is situated within the Struma district of the Kraishte tectonic zone.
www.clmc.bas.bg /minsoc/Membership/Gergana_B/p5_abstr_en.htm   (181 words)

  
 Waterman - Activities
Important points were the subsystem control and protection of the water, common characteristics of the Struma river, management of the water in the Struma basin, sources of water pollution, and the state of the water.
The major obstacle concerning this task was the fact that the Struma river basin is situated on the territory of three countries.
Essentially the water balance of a river basin is the evaluation of the incoming and outgoing amount in the natural water circle in the basin.
www.ima.ge.cnr.it /waterman/activitiestxt.html   (7111 words)

  
 Rafting opportunities in Bulgaria - news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Outdistancing the wild stream of the Struma River, for example, could be the greatest adventure of your life.
The event was held along the Struma River in the Kresna Gorge region.
The stretch of river along the Struma that is suitable for rafting is about 10 to 12 km long, which adds up to about an hour and a half “boat time”.
sofiaecho.com /article/rafting-opportunities-in-bulgaria/id_14664/ca...   (469 words)

  
 Scientists' Contributions
The aim of this project also is to model Struma River using the Saint-Venant equations with the equations for sediment transport and the advection diffusion-reaction equations.
For the purpose of development of the data base regarding the river Struma basin, research of the results obtained by several different projects, related to the hydro-meteorological and geographical data useful for water monitoring systems, was undertaken.
The complete digital terrain model, covering all parts of the river Struma basin (in R. Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece), with resolution of 50 m, was achieved at the expense of degradation of the available digital terrain model for the macedonian part of the Struma river basin from 20 m to 50 m.
www.meteo.bg /EURASAP/48/paper3.html   (1697 words)

  
 *** Visit to Bulgaria : BULGARIAN RIVERS *** - Travel guide and Search engine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
The rivers (map of bulgarian rivers) rise mainly in the highest mountains, and flow into the Black Sea (via the Danube) and into the Aegean Sea.
There are good opportunities for adventure tourism: wild water rafting and canoeing, diving, delta- and para-gliding in the valleys of the Vatcha, Iskar, Chepelarska, Struma, and Mesta rivers.
Natural lakes are about 330 in number; the largest are the Black Sea lakes (Alepou, Arkoutino, Pomorie, Beloslav, Bourgas, Varna, Shabla lakes); the most numerous (more than 260) are the high glacial lakes in the Rila and Pirin mountains.
get.info.bg /visit/dir.asp?d=0-4-Nature-Bulgarian_Rivers   (326 words)

  
 G. Ward Price. The Story of the Salonica Army. 1918. Chapters X-XIII.
But events on the Struma were of small importance in comparison with the Bulgarian offensive in force upon the wing of the Allied front, the brunt of which fell upon the Serbians, who had lately taken up position there and who were at first pressed back as far as Lake Ostrovo.
The Struma river, here gleaming like a silver band across the grass, there hidden by fl clumps of trees, is the explanation both of why this is one of the most fertile stretches of ground, yard for yard, in Europe, and why it is also one of the most dangerous malarial belts in the world.
Three new bridges had been built across the Struma for this attack, and on the night of the 26th the villages of Elisan, Ormanli and Haznatar were seized without opposition as a taking-off area.
www.gwpda.org /memoir/Salonica/salon4.htm   (12030 words)

  
 Plovdiv Guide - Places To See Rupite
The place of Rupite is situated in southwestern Bulgaria, near the Struma River.
It is located on a volcano crater, and its relief is formed by the volcano hill Kojuh, the thermal springs, and the hill of Pchelina.
The place is also remarkable for the 2 protected areas located there— the Natural landmark Kojuh, and the protected area of Rupite, where is the only Bulgarian bay forest of silver poplar situated at the Struma River.
plovdivcityguide.com /placestosee/gallery.php?gal_id=39%CE%B1=&...   (412 words)

  
 Fly Tying > The Sh!t Fly
There is a river near my born town Sandanski which is called Sandanska Bistritsa River.
From each apartment, house in the town, the toilete water goes in the waters of Sandanska Bistrica and 3 kilometers downstream it flows to Struma River.
In the place where Bistritsa flows, a lot of chubs are learned to eat all dirty things which carries the water - toilete papper, sh!ts and all kind of garbage.
www.flytyingforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t11651.html   (628 words)

  
 Struma
river, 216 mi (348 km) long, rising in the mountains of W Bulgaria and flowing S, through NE Greece, to the Aegean Sea.
Amphipolis - Amphipolis, ancient city of Macedonia, on the Strymon (Struma) River near the sea and NE of later...
Bulgaria: Land and People - Land and People Central Bulgaria is traversed from east to west by ranges of the Balkan Mts.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0846982.html   (110 words)

  
 VICAIRE - Module 2 - Chapter 12   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
Table 1 Monthly (R) and annual (Ran) values of the suspended sediment flux for Krumovitza river at Krumovgrad in Bulgaria
) for Struma River at Krupnik for a period 1980 -1990 (Table 2).
Estimate the average depth of the washed soil layer - h
hydram.epfl.ch /VICAIRE/mod_2/chapt_12/exercices.htm   (111 words)

  
 Fly Tying > Chub nymph fishing with my special fly
Well, I it was early in the morning, when I went down to the Struma river, to catch some hungry chubs on their special candy - the shit fly.
The place was after the flowing of Sandanska Bistrica river at Struma river, where there are a lot of rough streams
This is the perfect places of the river bed for nymph fishing, the shalow waters with high speed, where the oxigen is high leveled and the chub like to stay at the summer, eating lots of stuff which are carried down by the rivers water.
www.flytyingforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t11696.html   (641 words)

  
 BARDA - Regional Information: Sandanski
The region in which Sandanski municipality is located belongs to the south Bulgarian bio geographic region - Struma-Mesta sub-region which has one of the richest variety of
Tourism - Sandanski is situated in the south-western part of Bulgaria and it covers a territory of 1060 sq.
which includes a big part of the picturesque Sandansko-Pertichka valley along the middle course of Stryama river and the western and south-western slopes of the three ridges of Pirin, the northern slopes of Slavyanka mountain and the lowest foothill regions of Malashevska mountain and Ograjden moutain.
www.barda.bg /regional_information/sandanski/sandanski_3.html   (1180 words)

  
 COST 850 in Bulgaria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
feltiae: in low mountain zones and in the lowlands (Vitosha mts., Osogovska planina mts., the riversides of Struma river, the Sofia plain), mainly grasslands
Heterorhabditis bacteriophora: mainly in sandy soils (the riversides of Struma river, Blak sea coast)
We have isolated over 300 strains of EPN, a part of which we support in the laboratory.
www.cost850.ch /countries/bulgaria_home.html   (236 words)

  
 zdrastaff
The sky was full of snow and wind,
the trees in front of the café looked like stubbly old men in the white air; it was cold in the narrow room overlooking the Struma River that flowed tired, grumbling to the rocks and the empty plastic bottles floating in the water.
In the weekdays, he stopped her in the café to sniff her blue apron, “You smell sweet,” he said, but that could hardly be true since cigarette smoke crept up to the ceiling and the room was thick with suspicious odors of boots, wet coats and what not.
www.mindfirerenew.com /zdrastaff.html   (2567 words)

  
 RAFTING in Bansko during the summer in the pirin mountain along Struma river!
RAFTING in Bansko during the summer in the pirin mountain along Struma river!
Arriving at the rafting base hotel restaurant Rai Coffee break for 10 minutes.
Visit to the local spas Musicians: Local orchestra singing Bulgarian songs (live).
www.bulgariaski.com /bansko/pages/rafting_and_canyoning_en.html   (126 words)

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