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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 385 km (240 mi) long, rising in northwest Macedonia and flowing southward to an arm of the Aegean Sea in northeast Greece.
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Later, we reached the river Vardar And then Lord Bohemund went across with his people, but not with all, for the Count of Roscignolo with his brothers remained behind.
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(History of the Jews of Vardar, Macedonia, published in Hebrew and Serbo-Croatian);
Yugoslavia. 2009
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The Meric, Mesta, Sruma, and Vardar rivers are the main water courses in the northern part of the ecoregion, and the Aliakmon and Pintos Rivers are found in the west.
Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests 2008
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At the mouth of the river Vardar (referred to as Axios by Greeks) it commanded the gateway to one of the most important routes from the eastern Mediterranean and North Africa to the Balkans and, via the Danube, to Central Europe.
Wonderful Town? Crampton, Richard 2005
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The war was continued by Robert's son, Bohemund, who again defeated Alexius and in 1083 conquered all Macedonia as far as the Vardar.
1060 2001
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The Allies were again repulsed on the lower Vardar (Dec. 410) and forced to retreat to Greek territory.
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Macedonia is the most vital strategic region on the Balkan peninsula, since the Vardar and Struma valleys provide the only routes through the Balkan mountains.
Bosnia and the Balkans: An Exchange Beloff, Nora 1992
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Owing to the distribution of the mountain-chains, the principal rivers flow in an easterly or south-easterly direction; the Danube falls into the Black Sea, the Maritza, Mesta, Struma (_Strymon_), Vardar and
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The Austro-German alliance, first of all, will think of itself; that is to say, to realize the greatest ideals of pan-Germanism, the debouching of Austria in the Aegean Sea through Saloniki, which necessarily comprises the occupation by Austria of all Macedonia west of the Vardar.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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Ivan Mihailov, who became the nominal quisling ruler of Vardar
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters Samuel Vaknin
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