Strymon

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Strymon is the ancient name of the Struma River, a historically significant waterway in the Balkans that flows through Bulgaria and Greece into the Aegean Sea.

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Strymon canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient river name
river
ancientNameOf Struma River
associatedWith Balkan history
ancient Greek history
country Bulgaria
Greece
drainageBasin Bulgaria
Greece
emptiesInto Aegean Sea
etymology ancient Greek hydronym
flowsInto Strymonian Gulf
flowsThrough Bulgaria
Greece
hasModernName Struma
hasVariantName Strymonas
Strymón
historicalSignificance important waterway in ancient Thrace and Macedonia
locatedIn Balkans
Southeastern Europe
linked to: Balkans
mentionedIn ancient Greek sources
mouth Aegean Sea
mouthCountry Greece
partOf Struma River basin
linked to: Strymon River basin
region Macedonia
linked to: Macedonia (Greece)

Thrace
usedBy Byzantines
linked to: Byzantine Empire

ancient Greeks
usedInPeriod antiquity

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