Macaws (river)
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Macaws araks, arax, Արաքս (araz) |
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 Course of the macaw in the southern catchment area of the Kura |
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| location | Turkey , Armenia , Nagorno Karabakh , Iran , Azerbaijan | |
| River system | Kura | |
| Drain over | Kura → Caspian Sea | |
| source | south of Erzurum in the Bingöl Mountains 39 ° 20 ′ 54 ″ N , 41 ° 19 ′ 31 ″ E |
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Kura coordinates: 40 ° 1 '6 " N , 48 ° 27' 13" E 40 ° 1 '6 " N , 48 ° 27' 13" E
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| length | 1072 km | |
| Catchment area | 102,000 km² | |
| Left tributaries | Ghareso , Achurjan , Mezamor , Hrasdan , Azat , Wedi , Arpa , Naxçıvançay , Hakari , Voghdschi , Meghri | |
| Right tributaries | Zangmar , Sariso , Ghotur , Hajjilar , Kalibar , Ilghena , Darreh , Balha | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Aras dam , Chudaferin dam | |
| Small towns | Horasan , Agarak | |
 The Aras as a border river between Iran and Nakhchivan from the Iranian bank |
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 Macaws north of Iğdır |
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 The bridges of Choda Afarin , behind the dam of the Chudaferin dam |
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The macaws , araks or arax ( Azerbaijani Araz ; Persian ارس (rud-e) macaws , Armenian Արաքս Araks , kurdisch Erez , Urartian Muna, Greek Araxes , Turkish macaws Nehri ) is 1072 km length of the longest tributary of the Kura in Western Asia .
River course
The macaw has its source in Turkey in the Eastern Anatolia region , south of Erzurum in the Bingöl Mountains . From its source it runs east, passing Mount Ararat to the north. Around this area, the river also forms the border with Armenia . Later it is the border river between Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan and furthermore between Iran and Armenia or Azerbaijan itself. In Azerbaijan it flows through the Mugan steppe and finally flows into the lower reaches of the Kura .
Identification with the biblical river Gihon
The Egyptologist David Rohl considers the macaw to be the historical Gihon , which the Bible ( Genesis 1. Mose 2,11 ) names when describing the garden of Eden as one of the four rivers flowing out of the garden. Rohl leads a document from the time of the Islamic invasion in Persia in which awareness of the macaws under the name Gyhun evidence to the 7th century. The old name of the region on the Gyhun was Kush , a name that is also mentioned in the biblical account of creation. One of the peaks in the region is still called Kuscha-Dagh ("Mountain of Kush").
The Aras as a Russian-Persian border river
After the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813) the Macaw became the northern border of Persia under the Qajar dynasty with the Russian Empire, together with the lower Kura from the Caspian Sea to today's eastern border of the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhichevan with the peace of Gulistan . With the peace of Turkmanchai following the Russo-Persian War (1826-1828) , the Macaw became the northern border of Persia to the Russian Empire in the west, while in the east on the Caspian Sea the border to the south on the present-day border line between Azerbaijan and the Iran postponed.
See also
- List of the longest rivers on earth
- Araxi , a female given name derived from the river name.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Article Aras in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
- ^ Ralf-Bernhard Wartke, Urartu, the realm on the Ararat. Cultural history of the ancient world 59. Mainz, Zabern 1993, 60