CategoryLakes

When starting an article about Lake Ohrid, one can’t help but use such commonplace and even screaming epithets as the “the jewel of the Balkan Peninsula” and so on. Lake Ohrid (Ohridsko Jezero – Macedonian name, Liqeni i Ohrit – Albanian name) is the deepest lake of the Balkan Peninsula…

The Garda or Lago di Garda (Italian name is lago di Garda, Benaco is used less often) is the largest lake in Italy. Its surface area is 375 sq. km. It is slightly smaller than the area of Lake Skadar (390 sq. km), which makes it the second largest lake…

The largest lake of the Balkan Peninsula, Lake Skadar or Lake Scutari, is located on the northern shores of the Adriatic Sea. It’s the surface area is 390 sq. km, which makes it the largest among the lakes of the countries bordering with the Adriatic Sea – Lake Garda, the…