Sazliyka

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Name: Sazliyka
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, Greece, Turkey

The Sazliyka or Rakitnitsa is a river in southeastern Bulgaria, a left tributary of the Maritsa. It originates in the Sarnena Sredna Gora mountain range. In its upper course until Radnevo, it is also known as the Rakitnitsa or Syuyutliyka. The river is 145 kilometres in length and is the fifth longest in the Maritsa drainage.

The river takes its source under the name Toplitsite at an altitude of 651 m southwest of the summit of Ruya in the Sredna Gora mountain range. Until the village of Kazanka it flows southwards and then turns east. Downstream of the village of Starozagorski bani the river heads south-southwest and after receiving its tributary the Chatalka turns southeast. It reaches the Upper Thracian Plain at the villages of Lyaskovo and Rakitnitsa. Throughout its course in the mountains its valley is deep and forested. In the plains the riverbed is corrected with protective dikes. In the Upper Thracian Plain the Sazliyka takes several more turns — east downstream of Arnautito, southeast downstream of Sarnevo and south after Radnevo. It flows into the Maritsa at an altitude of 78 m about 1.7 km east of the town of Simeonovgrad. The river receives numerous tributaries, the most important being the Ovcharitsa, the Sokolitsa and the Blatnitsa.

Its drainage basin covers a territory of 3,239 km2.

Sazliyka

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