VARDAR RIVER

German Wardar, Greek Axis, major river in Macedonia and in Greece. It rises in the ar Mountains and flows north-northeast past Gostivar and Tetovo (in the GostivarTetovo depression); it then turns sharply to flow southeast past Skopje and Titov Veles into Greece, where it enters the Gulf of Salonika of the Aegean Sea. Of its total length of 260 miles (420 km), 187 miles (300 km) are in Macedonia; its drainage basin is 8,643 square miles (22,387 square km). The river's valley is important as a source of agricultural production and as a part of the MoravaVardar corridor, a major transportation route between central Europe and the Aegean.