The Aliákmon or Aliákmonas (Greek: Αλιάκμων or Αλιάκμονας) is the longest river in Greece, with a total length of 322 km (200 miles). It rises in the mountains of northern Greece near Lake Prespa on the border with Albania and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, before flowing southeast then northeast through the Greek provinces of West and Central Macedonia and then into Lake Kastoria, and into the dam and into the Thermaic Gulf. It waters an extensive area, making it of great importance to agriculture in the region. The river forms the western portion of the delta of the Axios (aka Vardar). The river runs in the prefectures of Florina, Kastoria, Grevena, Kozani, Imathia and Pieria. Lake Prespa Prespa is the name of a fresh-water lake in Macedonia, on the border between Greece, Albania and the Republic of Macedonia. ... Categories: Stub ... Categories: Greece geography stubs ... The Thermaic Gulf (or Thermian Gulf) is a gulf of the Aegean Sea located immediately south of Thessaloniki, east of Pieria and Imathia, and west of Chalkidiki (prefectures of Greece). ... The Vardar (or Axios) is the principal river of the Macedonian region of south-eastern Europe. ... The Vardar (or Axios Greek: Αξιός, the ancient and current Greek name of the river, being pre-Slavic) is the principal river of the Macedonian region of south-eastern Europe. ... Categories: Greece geography stubs | Cities and towns in Greece ... Categories: Greece geography stubs | Cities and towns in Greece | Greek prefectural capitals | Prefectures of Greece ... Grevena (Greek: Γρέβενα, is a town in Greece, capital of the Grevena prefecture, one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. ... Categories: Greece geography stubs | Cities and towns in Greece ... Categories: Stub ... Categories: Greece geography stubs ...

The places that where the Aliakmon flows are Kastoria, Neapoli, west of Siatista and into the Grevena prefecture and east of Grevena, and to the south of Kozani and into the Polyfytos dam which is 20 km long and about 4 to 5 km wide, and southeast of Aiane, and into the gorges and southeast of Veria and north of Aiginio and northeast of Methone. Categories: Greece geography stubs | Cities and towns in Greece | Greek prefectural capitals | Prefectures of Greece ... Siatista lies in a unique setting with a strange sense of solitude and wildness which is like nowhere else. ... Veria, also called Veroia, has a population of about 35,000. ...

In ancient times the Aliákmon was known as the Haliakmon. The Haliacmon (Haliakmon) was a river of ancient Macedon, rising in the chain of mountains to which Ptolemy gave the name of Kanalovii. ...