Mureș

The Mureș is a river in Eastern Europe that runs over 789 kilometers (490 miles). Its drainage basin is 30,332 square kilometers (11,711 sq mi). It rises at the headwaters of the Olt River in Romania's Hăşmașu Mare Range, and enters the Tisza at Szeged in northeastern Hungary. The Mureș River runs through Romanian counties Harghita, Mureș, Alba, Hunedoara, Arad, and Timiș, as well as Hungary's Csongrád county. Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia, Deva, and Arad in Romania, and Szeged in Hungary, are the largest cities on the Mureș/Maros.

In ancient times, the Mureș was known as the Marisus River. Due to Transylvanian Saxon populations and past Austrian Habsburg administration, it was also known as the Mieresch and Marosch in German. In medieval times, enormous rafts were utilized to trade salt on the river.

As far as the state border is concerned, the Hungarian reaches of the Mureș are 73 kilometers (45 miles) long. The Körös-Maros National Park protects an area of 28.5 km2 (11.0 sq mi) on the river's northern bank. Gallery trees, floodplain meadows, and 0.6 km2 (0.23 sq mi) of forest reserve near Szeged make up the Maros Floodplain Protected Area.

Length: 761 km