Karasu (Euphrates tributary)

Karasu Karasu Çayı, Karasu Deresi
Roman bridge
Data
location	Gaziantep Province ( Turkey )
River system	Euphrates
Headwaters	Kartal Dağı 37 ° 17 ′ 28 ″  N , 37 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  E
Source height	approx.  800  m
muzzle	near Tarlabaşı in the Euphrates Coordinates: 37 ° 24 ′ 5 "  N , 37 ° 56 ′ 18"  E 37 ° 24 ′ 5 "  N , 37 ° 56 ′ 18"  E
length	approx. 100 km
Small towns	Araban
Communities	Eskialtıntaş, Taşdegirmen, Altınpınar
Karasu gorge near the mouth of the late Hittite rock relief

The Karasu ( Turkish for "black water" ); also Karasu Çayı or Karasu Deresi , is a right tributary of the Euphrates in the Turkish province of Gaziantep .

The river has its source in the eastern foothills of the Kartal Dağı between the districts of Araban and Pazarcık . It flows east, digs a gorge up to 200 meters deep in front of the mouth and flows into the Euphrates in the east of the Araban district .

The river is not identical to the source river of the same name of the Euphrates.

history

In the late Hittite period , the border between the kingdoms of Kummaḫa and Karkamišša ran nearby . About three kilometers (as the crow flies) west of the mouth there is a rock relief from this time at the top of the gorge . One kilometer west of it lies the ruins of a Roman bridge, called Karasu Köprüsü, on the river . It was part of the military road that connected the villages of Zeugma and Samosata . Both belonged to the historic Kommagene landscape .

Web links

• Karasu Çayı Kurudu Araban Ovası Susuz Kaldı (Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Horst Ehringhaus : The end that was a beginning. Rock reliefs and rock inscriptions of the Luwian states of Asia Minor from 12. to 8./7. Century BC Chr. Nünnerich-Asmus, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-943904-67-3 , pp. 95-101.