Provadiya (Провадия, Провадийска река, ''Provadiya, Provadiyska reka''; "Provadiya river") is a river in northeastern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

. It takes its name from the town of

Provadiya Provadia ( bg, Провадия ) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Varna Province, located in a deep karst gorge (Provadia syncline) along the Provadiya River not far from the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. It is the administrative centre ...

. It is 119 km long and has a

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

of 2,132 km². The river takes its source from close to the village of

Dobri Voynikovo Dobri means ''good'' in several Slavic languages and may refer to *Dobri (given name) * Dobri dol (disambiguation) * Dobri Do (disambiguation) * Dobri, Hungary, a village * Dobri Dub, a village in Serbia * Dobri Laki, a village in Bulgaria * Novigra ...

Shumen Province Shumen Province ( bg, Област Шумен, transliterated ''Oblast Shumen'', former name Shumen okrug) is a province in northeastern Bulgaria named after its main city Shumen. It is divided into 10 municipalities with a total population, as ...

, flowing southeast and then making a sharp turn northeast to empty into

Lake Beloslav Lake Beloslav ( bg, Белославско езеро) is a liman, which connected by a navigation canal with Lake Varna. Before the canal was built the lake was freshwater, but now the water is brackish. The rivers Devnya and Provadiyska flow i ...

. It is part of the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Roma ...

drainage area, as Lake Beloslav is connected to

Lake Varna Lake Varna ( bg, Варненско езеро, ) is the largest by volume and deepest liman or lake along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, divided from the sea by a 2 km-wide strip of sand and having an area of 19 km², maximal depth 19 m ...

and it to the Black Sea.

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Rivers of Bulgaria Landforms of Varna Province Landforms of Shumen Province Tributaries of the Black Sea {{Bulgaria-river-stub