Timok (river)

Timok (Тимок)
Great Timok (Veliki Timok/Велики Тимок)
View of the Timok at Baley, Bulgaria
Countries	Serbia, Bulgaria
Tributaries
- left	Crni Timok
- right	Beli Timok
City	Serbia: Zaječar, Brusnik Bulgaria: Bregovo, Baley
Source	Zaječar
- location	Junction of the Beli Timok and the Crni Timok, Serbia
- coordinates	43°55′12″N 22°17′52″E / 43.92000°N 22.29778°E / 43.92000; 22.29778
Mouth	Danube
- location	near Bregovo, Serbia, Bulgaria
- coordinates	44°12′49″N 22°40′13″E / 44.21361°N 22.67028°E / 44.21361; 22.67028Coordinates: 44°12′49″N 22°40′13″E / 44.21361°N 22.67028°E / 44.21361; 22.67028
Discharge
- average	24 m3/s (848 cu ft/s)

The Timok (Serbian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Тимок, Romanian: Timoc), sometimes and as Veliki Timok (Serbian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Велики Тимок; Veliki Timok literally: Great Timok), is a river in eastern Serbia and for the last 15 km of its run a border between eastern Serbia and western Bulgaria.

It derives the names in all these from the name it had in antiquity, Latin: Timacus.

It is a very branchy system of many shorter rivers, a large number of them having the same name (Timok), only clarified with adjectives. From the farthest source in the system, that of the Svrljiški Timok, until its confluence into the Danube (as Veliki Timok), the Timok is 203 km long. The river flows through Serbia and for the last 15 km forms the border between Serbia and Bulgaria. The area of the river basin is 4,630 km². The Timok Valley is known for the most important Romanian-speaking population in Eastern Serbia.

Timok Cove in Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Timok River.

The Timok, also named Veliki Timok to distinguish it from its tributaries, is formed by the confluence of the rivers Beli Timok ("White Timok") and Crni Timok ("Black Timok") at Zaječar. The Beli Timok is formed by the confluence of the rivers Svrljiški Timok ("Svrljig Timok") and Trgoviški Timok ("Trgovište Timok") at Knjaževac.