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Haliacmon

The Haliacmon (Greek language

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: , Haliákmon, or modern ?????µ??a?, Aliákmonas; Slavic: Bistritsa is the longest river in Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
, with a total length of 322 km (200 miles). Haliacmon is the traditional English name for the river, but many sources cite the formerly official katharevousa

Katharevousa

Katharevousa , is a form of the Greek language conceived in the early 19th century by Greeks intellectual and revolutionary leader Adamantios Korais ....
version of the name, Aliákmon. Today, the only official

Official language

An official language is a language that is given a special legal status in a particular country, state, or other territory. Typically a nation's official language will be the one used in that nation's courts, parliament and administration....
variant is the demotic

Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
Aliákmonas.

It rises in the northern Pindus

Pindus

The Pindus , mountain range is located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2637 m ....
mountains in northern Greece on the border with Albania

Albania

Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a country in Balkans. It is bordered by Greece to the south-east, Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, and the Republic of Macedonia to the east....
, before flowing southeast then northeast through the Greek peripheries

Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
of West

West Macedonia

West Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece of Greece, consisting of the western part of the regions of Greece of Macedonia . It is divided into the Prefectures of Greece of Florina Prefecture, Grevena Prefecture, Kastoria Prefecture, and Kozani Prefecture....
and Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia

Central Macedonia is one of the thirteen peripheries of Greece of Greece, consisting of the central part of the regions of Greece of Macedonia ....
and then into Lake Kastoria, and into the dam and into the Thermaic Gulf

Thermaic Gulf

The Thermaic Gulf is a gulf of the Aegean Sea located immediately south of Thessaloniki prefecture, east of Pieria and Imathia Prefecture, and west of Chalkidiki ....
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The Haliacmon (Greek language

Greek language

Greece

Katharevousa

Official language

Modern Greek

Pindus

Albania

Peripheries of Greece

The peripheries are the official regional administrative divisions of Greece. There are 13 peripheries , which are further subdivided into 54 Prefectures of Greece....
of West

West Macedonia

Central Macedonia

Thermaic Gulf

The Thermaic Gulf is a gulf of the Aegean Sea located immediately south of Thessaloniki prefecture, east of Pieria and Imathia Prefecture, and west of Chalkidiki ....
. 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 Axiós

Axios

Axios , is an acclamation that is made by the laity at the Ordination of bishops, priests and deacons in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches churches....
(aka Vardar

Vardar

The Vardar or Axios is the longest and major river in the Republic of Macedonia and also a major river of Greece. It is 388 kilometres long, and drains an area of around 25 000 km?....
). The river runs in the prefectures of Kastoria

Kastoria Prefecture

Kastoria Prefecture is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece of Greece. Its capital is the city of Kastoria, and its population was estimated at 51,934 inhabitants in the most recent census....
, Grevena

Grevena Prefecture

Grevena is a prefectures of Greece in Greece. Its capital is the city of Grevena. Much of the prefecture is mountainous. According to the 2001 Greek census, Grevena is the least population density and third-least populous prefecture in Greece....
, Kozani

Kozani Prefecture

Kozani is a prefectures of Greece, located in western Macedonia . Its capital is the city of Kozani....
, Imathia

Imathia Prefecture

Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
, and Pieria

Pieria

Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
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The Haliacmon flows through Kastoria

Kastoria

Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the peripheries of Greece of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria Prefecture, located at . The town's population is estimated as some 20,660 people ....
, Neapoli, west of Siatista

Siatista

Siatista is a town of the Kozani Prefecture, 28 km southeast of its capital city. It was built on the austral slope of the Velia mountain on an height of 930 m....
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

Veria

Veria is a city built at the foot of Vermion Mountains in Greece. It is a commercial center of Macedonia , the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Imathia Prefecture, the province of Imathia and the seat of a bishop of the Church of Greece....
and north of Aiginio

Aiginio

Aiginio is a municipality in Pieria, Greece. Population 5,264 .External links*...
and northeast of Methone.

In antiquity, Claudius Ptolemy called the chain of mountains in which the river rises (northern Pindus

Pindus

The Pindus , mountain range is located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2637 m ....
) the Canalovii. According to Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
, the Haliacmon formed the line of demarcation between Macedon

Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
and Thessaly

Thessaly

Thessaly is one of the 13 Peripheries of Greece of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 Prefectures of Greece. The capital of the periphery and traditional Regions of Greece is Larissa....
. In the upper part of its course it took a southeast direction through Elimiotis

Elimiotis

Elimiotis or Elimeia was a region of Upper Macedonia that was located along the Haliacmon, north of Perrhaibia/Thessaly, west of Pieria, east of Parauaia, and south of Orestis....
, which it watered; and then, continuing to the northeast, formed the boundary between Pieria

Pieria

Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia , in the peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia....
, Eordaea, and Imathia

Imathia Prefecture

Imathia is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the Peripheries of Greece of Central Macedonia. The prefecture has two provinces....
. In the time of Herodotus

Herodotus

Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greeks historian who lived in the 5th century BC and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture....
the Haliacmon was apparently joined by the Loudias , the discharge of the lake of Pella

Pella

Pella was the Capital of the Ancient Greece Monarchy of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Greek Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions were made....
; 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

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
. The image below shows a wind gap

Wind gap

A wind gap is a valley through which a waterway once flowed, but is now dry as a result of stream capture. A water gap is a similar feature, but one in which a waterway still flows....
between the Haliacmon and Loudias watershed

Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean....
s that is the probable ancient course of the Haliacmon.

It was the domain of the eponymous river god Haliacmon

Haliacmon (mythology)

Haliacmon was in Greek mythology a son of Oceanus and Thetys. He was a minor river god in his own right, of the eponymous Haliacmon in Macedonia....
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