Luda Yana

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Name: Luda Yana
Water system: Maritsa (Evros)
Water type: River
Progression: Maritsa (Evros) -> Aegean Sea -> Mediterranean Sea -> Atlantic Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Subtropical
Continents: Europe, Asia
Countries: Bulgaria

The Luda Yana is a 74 km-long river in southern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the river Maritsa. There are several version about the river's etymology. According to geographer Pavel Deliradev, the name comes from a combination of its "crazy" flow after heavy rains and a Bulgarian maiden from the period of the Ottoman rule in Bulgaria named Yana, who according to local legend threw herself into the river rather than being forced into a marriage with a Turk. According to the linguist Stefan Mladenov, it is possible that the word "Yana" meant river in the ancient Thracian language. The Luda Yana takes its source at an altitude of 1,423 m near the western foothills of the summit of Bich in the mountain range of Sredna Gora. It flows into the Maritsa at an altitude of 195 m north of the village of Sinitovo. Its drainage basin covers a territory of 685 km2.

Luda Yana

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