Maritza (anc. Hebrus), a river of European Turkey, rises in the Balkans, and flows E. by S. past Philippopolis to Adrianople, where it bends and flows S. by W. to the Gulf of Enos in the Ægean. It is 270 miles long, and is navigable for small boats to Adrianople.
Maritza
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 46
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