Arda River
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- For a river in Italy see Arda River, Italy.
Arda (Bulgarian: Арда, Greek: Αρδας Ardas) is a river whose source lies in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains near the town of Smolyan, flowing 290 kilometres eastward past Kardzhali and Ivaylovgrad and through Greece in the northern portion of the Evros prefecture including Kastanies. It then enters the Maritsa, just west of Edirne, Turkey. The portion in Bulgaria is accented by three hydroelectric and irrigation dams.
The three floods of February 18, 2005 which the water level was at 4.8 m, March 1 and March 7, 2005 flooded the low lying areas especially in the Kastanies area which turned the area into a lagoon. The merging of the waters of the Evros (Meriç in Turkey) caused streets and buildings including homes to be flooded and people to be stranded in their homes.
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