The Simav ( tr, Simav Çayı) or Susurluk RiverTurkish General Directorate of State Water Works (DSİ).

" Archive accessed 3 Sept. 2011. (''Susurluk Çayı'') is a

river A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...

Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula in Western Asia and the westernmost protrusion of the Asian continent. It constitutes the major part of modern-day Turkey. The re ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

. Its course is 321 km long and its basin comprises 22 400 km². It was the classical Macestus Hazlitt, W. '' The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane.''
Macestus
" Whittaker & Co. (London), 1851. Accessed 4 Sept. 2011. (; el, Μέκεστος, ''Mékestos''). In the 19th century, it was known as the Mikalick. The Simav has its source in

Kütahya Province Kütahya Province ( tr, ) is a province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is 11,875 km in size, and the population is 571,554 (2014). In 1990, Kütahya had a population of 578,000. The neighboring provinces are Bursa to the northwest, B ...

, from which it flows north across the plain of

Simav Simav is a town and a district of Kütahya Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. The town is located on the Simav River The Simav ( tr, Simav Çayı) or Susurluk RiverTurkish General Directorate of State Water Works (DSİ)." Archive acces ...

into

Balıkesir Province Balıkesir Province ( tr, ) is a province in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean. Its adjacent provinces are Çanakkale to the west, İzmir to the southwest, Manisa to the south, Kütahya to the sou ...

. There is a reservoir at the Çaygören Dam,Turkish General Directorate of State Water Works (DSİ).
Çaygören Baraji
(tr). Archive accessed 3 Sept. 2011. out of which the Simav flows past Susurluk and meets the Adirnaz. During the classical period, the Macestus was a tributary of the Rhyndacus (the modern Adirnaz), but today the Simav forms the main course from their confluence near

Karacabey Karacabey is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey. It is located just west of the Simav River near its confluence with the Adirnaz River. District of Karacabey borders districts of Mudanya and Nilüfer from eas ...

down to the

Sea of Marmara The Sea of Marmara,; grc, Προποντίς, Προποντίδα, Propontís, Propontída also known as the Marmara Sea, is an inland sea located entirely within the borders of Turkey. It connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea via t ...

. Along the way, it meets the Nilüfer River (the classical Odrysses). Its mouth faces the island of Imrali, a high-security prison.

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A map of the Simav Basin
(tr) Rivers of Turkey Landforms of Kütahya Province Landforms of Balıkesir Province Landforms of Bursa Province {{Turkey-river-stub