page_title: Mureș (river)
hierarchical_section_title: Mureș (river)
caption_attribution_description: Mureş River, Arad, Romania
context_page_description: The Mureș is a 789-kilometre-long river in Eastern Europe. Its drainage basin covers an area of 30,332 km². It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, rising close to the headwaters of the river Olt, and joins the Tisza at Szeged in southeastern Hungary. In Romania, its length is 761 km and its basin size is 27,890 km².
  The Mureș River flows through the Romanian counties Harghita, Mureș, Alba, Hunedoara, Arad and Timiș, and the Hungarian county Csongrád. The largest cities on the Mureș/Maros are Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia, Deva and Arad in Romania, and Makó in Hungary.
  The Hungarian reaches of the Mureș/Maros are 73 km long as the state border. Some 28.5 km² on the northern side of the river are protected as part of the Körös-Maros National Park. The Maros Floodplain Protected Area consists of gallery forests, floodplain meadows and 0.6 km² of forest reserve near Szeged.
  Salt used to be traded in medieval times on the river on large rafts.
context_section_description: The Mureș (Romanian: [ˈmureʃ]; Hungarian: Maros, IPA: [ˈmɒroʃ]; Serbian: Мориш, romanized: Moriš) is a 789-kilometre-long (490 mi) river in Eastern Europe. Its drainage basin covers an area of 30,332 km² (11,711 sq mi). It originates in the Hășmașu Mare Range in the Eastern Carpathian Mountains, Romania, rising close to the headwaters of the river Olt, and joins the Tisza at Szeged in southeastern Hungary. In Romania, its length is 761 km (473 mi) and its basin size is 27,890 km² (10,770 sq mi).
  The Mureș River flows through the Romanian counties Harghita, Mureș, Alba, Hunedoara, Arad and Timiș, and the Hungarian county Csongrád. The largest cities on the Mureș/Maros are Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia, Deva and Arad in Romania, and Makó in Hungary.
  The Hungarian reaches of the Mureș/Maros are 73 km (45 mi) long as the state border. Some 28.5 km² (11.0 sq mi) on the northern side of the river are protected as part of the Körös-Maros National Park. The Maros Floodplain Protected Area consists of gallery forests, floodplain meadows and 0.6 km² (0.23 sq mi) of forest reserve near Szeged.
  Salt used to be traded in medieval times on the river on large rafts.
caption: The Mureș in Arad
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