Maritsa


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Ma·ri·tsa

(mə-rēt′sə)
A river of the southeastern Balkan Peninsula flowing about 480 km (300 mi) from western Bulgaria southeast then south between Turkey and Greece to the Aegean Sea.
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Maritsa

(Bulgarian maˈritsa)
n
(Placename) a river in S Europe, rising in S Bulgaria and flowing east into Turkey, then south from Edirne as part of the border between Turkey and Greece to the Aegean. Length: 483 km (300 miles). Turkish name: Meriç Greek name: Évros
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Ma•ri•tsa

(məˈrit sə)

n.
a river in S Europe flowing from S Bulgaria along the border between Greece and Turkey and into the Aegean. 300 mi. (485 km) long.
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Trade union Podkrepa will protect the Maritsa Iztok complex by all available means, union leader Dimitar Manolov said at the opening of a congress of the organisation 30 years after its establishment, Focus News Agency reports.
STAY in Kefalos, Kos, at the two-star Maritsa Studios, seven nights self-catering departing from Manchester on July 13, 2014.
Austrian utility EVN (WBAG:EVN) is in negotiations on the purchase of the 73% stake in Bulgarian power producer Maritsa East Three owned by Italian Enel (BIT:ENEL), Reuters reported on Thursday citing a spokesman for EVN Bulgaria.
Bulgaria's state energy agency has given the green light to the country's biggest coal mining complex, Maritsa East, and Rheinbraun AG, a unit of Germany's RWE, to set up a joint mining company.
Currently, Bulgaria wants the European Commission to delay the introduction of higher ecological criteria for its coal-fired power plants in the Maritsa basin.
Italian power group Enel (BIT:ENEL) is to offload its 73% stake in Bulgarian Maritsa East 3 thermal power plant to Russian electricity trader Inter RAO (MCX:IRAO) for EUR800m (USD1bn), Bulgarian daily Trud said Friday citing sources with knowledge of the matter.

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