Çekerek Çayı

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Çekerek Çayı
Çekerek Irmağı
ancient names: Skylax, Scylax
Incesu Gorge

Incesu Gorge

Data
location Amasya , Çorum , Tokat , Yozgat ( Turkey )
River system Yeşilırmak
Drain over Yeşilırmak  → Black Sea
source Confluence of several source streams west of Çamlıbel
40 ° 5 ′ 4 ″  N , 36 ° 27 ′ 24 ″  E
Source height approx.  1100  m
muzzle Yeşilırmak coordinates: 40 ° 33 '42 "  N , 35 ° 45' 33"  E 40 ° 33 '42 "  N , 35 ° 45' 33"  E

length approx. 300 km
Left tributaries Çorum Çayı
Reservoirs flowed through Süreyyabey Dam
Small towns Çekerek
Communities Goynücek

The Çekerek Çayı (also Çekerek Irmağı) is a left tributary of the Yeşilırmak in northern Anatolia .

In ancient times the river was called Skylax (Latinized Scylax ). The Çekerek Çayı arises at the confluence of several source streams west of Çamlıbel in the south of the Tokat province . Initially it flows mainly in a westerly direction. At Çekerek , it is dammed up by the Süreyyabey dam . It then flows a short distance north, but then turns west. The Gökmen hydropower plant with an output of 3 MW is located on the course of the river . The Çekerek Çayı flows in the lower reaches to the northeast, past the place Göynücek and finally flows into the Yeşilırmak 10 km south of the provincial capital Amasya . The Çekerek Çayı has a length of approx. 300 km.

In Hittite times it was called Alp Zulija (CTH 83.4) after Sedat . The Hittite city of Haitta on the Çekerek should also be sought. Güterbock , however, identifies the Çekerek as the Hittite Kumešmaḫaš.

The Çekerek Çayı flows through the ten-kilometer-long İncesu Gorge (İncesu Kanyonu) between the villages of Kazankaya and İncesu in Ortaköy County . A Hellenistic high relief with a 3.16 meter high female figure was discovered in this gorge in 1985 in a difficult-to-reach place . BC and represents a goddess.

literature

  • OR Gurney: The Hittite Names of Kerkenes Dağ and Kuşaklı Höyük . In: Anatolian Studies , 45, 1995, pp. 69-71.

Web links

Commons : Çekerek Çayı  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. vishydro.com: Gökmen hydropower plant ( Memento from December 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Hans G. Güterbock, The North-Central Area of ​​Hittite Anatolia. Journal of Near Eastern Studies , 20/2, 1961
  3. Latife Summerer: The Goddess at Skylax. A monumental Hellenistic rock relief in Northern Anatolia. In: Archäologischer Anzeiger, No. 1, 2006, pp. 17–30, here p. 26