The Banska River is a river in Haskovo Province

Haskovo Province

Haskovo Province is a province in southern Bulgaria, neighbouring Greece and Turkey to the southeast, comprising parts of the Thracian valley along the river Maritsa. It is named after its administrative and industrial centre - the city of Haskovo...

, southeastern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

. The river is 37 kilometres (23 mi) long.

The Banska springs out from Sofidzhik Peak in the Eastern Rhodopes. It passes through the villages of Tatarevo

Tatarevo, Haskovo Province

Tatarevo, Haskovo Province is a village in the municipality of Mineralni bani, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria....

, Garvanovo

Garvanovo

garvanovo.net63.netGarvanovo is a village in the municipality of Haskovo, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.-References:...

, Klokotnitsa

Klokotnitsa

Klokotnica is a village in southern Bulgaria near Haskovo. It has a population of 619 people .The village is famous for the great battle on 9 March 1230, between the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Byzantine Greek despot Theodore Komnin of Epirus...

 and Dobrich

Dobrich, Haskovo Province

Dobrich, Haskovo Province is a village in the municipality of Dimitrovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria. It is located 7 kilometers east of Dimitrovgrad. The mayor of the village is Marin Marinov....

. Between Tatarevo and Garvanovo it forms the Boaza Gorge. The river flows into the Maritsa

Maritsa

The Maritsa or Evros , ) is, with a length of 480 km, the longest river that runs solely in the interior of the Balkans. It has its origin in the Rila Mountains in Western Bulgaria, flowing southeast between the Balkan and Rhodope Mountains, past Plovdiv and Parvomay to Edirne, Turkey...

 near Haskovo

Haskovo

Haskovo , is a city, an administrative centre of the homonymous Haskovo Province in southern Bulgaria, not far from the borders with Greece and Turkey. As of February 2011, it has a population of 74,843 inhabitants....

 as a right tributary.

In 1230 the Battle of Klokotnitsa

Battle of Klokotnitsa

The Battle of Klokotnitsa occurred on 9 March 1230 near the village of Klokotnitsa . As a result, the Second Bulgarian Empire emerged once again as the most powerful state in Eastern Europe and the power of the Despotate of Epirus faded...

 occurred near the banks of the river.

The Banska River is inhabited by a large number of fish species, including the Mullet

Mullet (fish)

The mullets or grey mullets are a family and order of ray-finned fish found worldwide in coastal temperate and tropical waters, and in some species in fresh water. Mullets have served as an important source of food in Mediterranean Europe since Roman times...

, Danube Bleak

Danube Bleak

The Danube Bleak is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.It is found in Iran, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.-Source:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1996. . Downloaded...

, the Carassius

Carassius

Carassius is a genus in the ray-finned fish family Cyprinidae. The species in this genus are commonly known as Crucian carps, though this term often specifically refers to C. carassius. The most well known is the goldfish , which was bred from the Prussian carp...

 and the Common Nase.