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The '''Aliakmon''' (Modern [[Greek language|Greek]]): Αλιάκμονας, ''[[Aliakmonas]]''; Bulgarian and Serbian: Бистрица, ''Bistritsa''/''Bistrica'';) is the longest river in [[Greece]], with a total length of 322 km (200 miles).

It rises in the northern [[Pindus]] mountains in northern Greece on the border with Albania, before flowing southeast then northeast through the Greek [[peripheries of Greece|peripheries]] of West and Central [[Macedonia]] and then into [[Lake Kastoria]], and into the dam and into the [[Thermaic Gulf]]. It waters an extensive area, making it of great importance to agriculture in the region. The river forms the western portion of the delta of the [[Axios]] (aka Vardar). The river runs in the prefectures of [[Kastoria prefecture|Kastoria]], [[Grevena prefecture|Grevena]], [[Kozani prefecture|Kozani]], [[Imathia prefecture|Imathia]], and [[Pieria]].

The Aliakmon flows through [[Kastoria]], [[Neapoli (Kozani)|Neapoli]], west of [[Siatista]] and into the Grevena prefecture and east of [[Grevena]], and to the south of [[Kozani]] and into the [[Polyfytos]] dam which is 20 km long and about 4 to 5 km wide, and southeast of [[Aiane]], and into the gorges and southeast of [[Veria]] and north of [[Aiginio]] and northeast of [[Methone (Imathia)|Methone]].

In antiquity, [[Claudius Ptolemy]] called the chain of mountains in which the river rises (northern [[Pindus]]) the ''Canalovii''. According to Julius Caesar, the Aliakmon formed the line of demarcation between [[Macedon]] and [[Thessaly]]. In the upper part of its course it took a southeast direction through [[Elimiotis]], which it watered; and then, continuing to the northeast, formed the boundary between [[Pieria]], [[Eordaea]], and [[Imathia prefecture|Imathia]]. In the time of [[Herodotus]] the Aliakmon was apparently joined by the [[Loudias]], or discharge of the lake of [[Pella]]; but a change has taken place in the course of the Loudias, which no longer joins the Haliacmon, but flows directly into the [[Aegean Sea]].

[[Category:Rivers of Greece]]

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−	The '''Aliakmon''' (Modern [[Greek language\|Greek]]): Αλιάκμονας, ''[[Aliakmonas]]''; Bulgarian and Serbian: Бистрица, ''Bistritsa''/''Bistrica'';) is the longest river in [[Greece]], with a total length of 322 km (200 miles).	+	The '''Aliakmon''' (Modern [[Greek language\|Greek]]: Αλιάκμονας, ''[[Aliakmonas]]''; Bulgarian and Serbian: Бистрица, ''Bistritsa''/''Bistrica'';) is the longest river in [[Greece]], with a total length of 322 km (200 miles).

	It rises in the northern [[Pindus]] mountains in northern Greece on the border with Albania, before flowing southeast then northeast through the Greek [[peripheries of Greece\|peripheries]] of West and Central [[Macedonia]] and then into [[Lake Kastoria]], and into the dam and into the [[Thermaic Gulf]]. It waters an extensive area, making it of great importance to agriculture in the region. The river forms the western portion of the delta of the [[Axios]] (aka Vardar). The river runs in the prefectures of [[Kastoria prefecture\|Kastoria]], [[Grevena prefecture\|Grevena]], [[Kozani prefecture\|Kozani]], [[Imathia prefecture\|Imathia]], and [[Pieria]].		It rises in the northern [[Pindus]] mountains in northern Greece on the border with Albania, before flowing southeast then northeast through the Greek [[peripheries of Greece\|peripheries]] of West and Central [[Macedonia]] and then into [[Lake Kastoria]], and into the dam and into the [[Thermaic Gulf]]. It waters an extensive area, making it of great importance to agriculture in the region. The river forms the western portion of the delta of the [[Axios]] (aka Vardar). The river runs in the prefectures of [[Kastoria prefecture\|Kastoria]], [[Grevena prefecture\|Grevena]], [[Kozani prefecture\|Kozani]], [[Imathia prefecture\|Imathia]], and [[Pieria]].

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