Erythropotamos

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Erythropotamos Luda reka (Луда река)
Origin	Eastern Rhodope mountains
Length	approximately 100 km
Mouth elevation	Ionian Sea
Basin area	Ionian Sea

The Erythropotamos (Greek: Ερυθροπόταμος meaning the red river), Luda reka in Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Луда река, also meaning the red river) is a river that flows from south of Mega Dereio next to the Ivajlovgrad Province in southern Bulgaria and northern Thrace entirely in the Evros Prefecture. Its Turkish name was Küzüldeli Su It flows into the Evros River near Didymoteicho.

[edit] The Course

The river begins in Greece in the western Evros Prefecture, it passes into Mega Dereio and through a remote road and the Ivajlovgrad or Ivaylovgrad Province on Bulgaria and passes into the villages of Gorno and Dolno (Upper and Lower Lukovo) even Siv Kladenev with a tributary known as the Bjala reka. The river reenters Greece and flows north of Protoklissi, the nearby villages include Paliouri and Sitochori.