Nestos (river)

Nestos , Mesta , or formerly a Mesta Karasu in Bulgaria together with the rest in Rila as well as Pirin.

The Mesta's longest tributary is the Dospat or Despatis. The banks of the river are identified mainly by deciduous trees that fall out into halfway between Bulgaria together with Greece where it forms the advanced boundary of Greek Macedonia and Thrace, as alive as the boundary between the Kavala and the Xanthi regional units, having first crossed the Drama regional unit. The river later forms a delta to the north where swamplands, wetlands and a lagoon one time existed apart from in the east.

History

In the Geography of Claudius Ptolemy, the river is spoke to as Nestus Νέστος, and is said to throw the boundary between ancient Macedonia and Thrace.

Because of its flow between canyons and inaccessible mountain areas, Nestos was not navigable in antiquity and also did not ad a natural terrestrial road along the riverbed. Concerning the horizontal communication from the East to the West, the river had only two passes, one in the middle and the other in the lower watercourse, which were controlled respectively by the cities of Nicopolis and Topeiros. The first pass, almost Nicopolis, allows the communication between the valleys of the rivers Strymon and Hebros Evros, while through thepass, most Topeiros, passed an ancient road and later the Roman road of Via Egnatia that served the communication between the East and the West. In Nestos' valley east bank north of the south pass, the Dii used to live, while Satrae were alive to the south. Finally, Nestos played an important role in the urban and economic history of the inhabitants of the estuary, where the city of Abdera and later Topeiros, founded by the Emperor Trajan. This is presumed by the deification of the river and its depiction on coins of the imperial period.