Devoll (river)

In the middle reaches above Gramsh

The Devoll (Greek Eordaikos; Latin Eordaïcus ) is a river on the Balkan peninsula and flows through Albania.

The Devoll rises in the southeast of the country in the same district on the eastern slope of the Grammosgebirges. Then he crossed north of the plain of Korçë Korçë that had swamped until after the Second World War and in the lay, fed by the river Maliksee. The outlet from the Small Prespa Lake flowed at high water after heavy rainfall and spring during the snow melt water from the lake in the Devoll and so in the Adriatic Sea. The Devoll was conducted from the 1950s until about the year 2000 at high tide in the Small Prespa Lake in order to temporarily store this water to irrigate during dry seasons can. The effluent from the little Prespasse was channeled and diverted for irrigation of the fertile plain of Korçë now. The introduction of Devoll water in the Lake Prespa led to the silting up of the Albanian part.

In its further course after Malik plane towards the north-west it breaks through in a meandering valley several mountain ranges before it is dammed at Gramsh in a larger lake.

Further west Devoll combined with the also coming from the Grammosgebirge Osum to the river Seman. Up here the river has reached a length of 196 km - which it drains an area of 3130 km ² - and performs an average of 49.5 m³ / s The Seman opens into a small delta south of the Lagoon of Karavasta in the Adriatic Sea.

At an unspecified point to be located in the valley of Devoll joined Bohemond of Taranto and the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I in 1108, a contract. Previously, the Greeks had the Norman Crusaders defeated in battle.

The Austrian EVN AG begins in 2009 with the construction of three storage power plants on Devoll, which together have 340 MW capacity and a TWh to generate electrical energy per year.