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The Kelkit River (Turkish: Kelkit Irmağı or Kelkit Çayı), is a river in the Black Sea Region of Turkey. It is the longest tributary of the Yeşilırmak. Its name derives from the Armenian Gayl get (Armenian: Գայլ գետ 'wolf river', Kayl ked in Western Armenian pronunciation).[1] Its Greek name is Lykos (Greek: Λύκος), also meaning 'wolf', and romanized as Lycus.[2][3]
| Kelkit River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Yeşilırmak River |
• coordinates | 40°45′58″N 36°30′33″E |
It rises in Gümüşhane Province and runs through the provinces of Erzincan, Giresun, Sivas, and Tokat before flowing into the Yeşilırmak at the modern village of Kızılçubuk, near the site of the ancient city of Eupatoria. The Kelkit follows the North Anatolian Fault for about 150 km from Suşehri to Resadiye and Niksar.[4]
In Hellenistic times, a major east-west road following the valley of the Kelkit led from Armenia Minor to Bithynia.[5]
It was the site of the Battle of the Lycus in 66 BCE
Phanaroea
The valley of the last 40 km of the Kelkit is the Erbaa plain (Erbaa Ovası), known in antiquity as the Phanaroea.
Notes
- Bryer, Anthony (1988). Peoples and settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus: 800-1900. Variorum Publishing. p. 21.
...Kelkit is no more than Gayl Get, the Armenian translation of Wolf River.
- Antonio Sagona and Claudia Sagona, Archaeology At The North-east Anatolian Frontier, I: An Historical Geography And A Field Survey of the Bayburt Province (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series 14, 2004. ISBN 90-429-1390-8. p. 68, quoting Robert H. Hewsen, Geography of Ananias of Sirak: Aesxarhacoyc, the Long and the Short Recensions (Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO): Series B), 1992, p. 153.
- Hovannisian, Richard G., ed. (2004). Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia. Mazda Publishers. p. 46. ISBN 9781568591520.
...Kelkit in Turkish pronunciation, or Gayl Get (Wolf River) in Classical Armenian, and its equivalent in Greek (Lycus).
- Aykut Barka, "North Anatolian Fault Field Trip Report", Southern California Earthquake Newsletter (online version), 3:4 full text retrieved 18 August 2009.
- B. C. McGing, The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus (Mnemosyne Ser.: Suppl. 89), 1997. ISBN 90-04-07591-7. p. 6f.
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На других языках
[de] Kelkit Çayı
Der Kelkit Çayı ist der bedeutendste rechte Nebenfluss des Yeşilırmak im Norden der Türkei.- [en] Kelkit River
[ru] Келькит (река)
Келькит (тур. Kelkit Çayı) или Келькитирмак (тур. Kelkit Irmağı) — река в Турции. Берёт исток при слиянии рек Кошмасат (Koşmasat Çayı) и Чёмледжик (Çömlecik Deresi) близ деревни Карачайыр (тур.) (рус. в районе Келькит в иле Гюмюшхане в Черноморском регионе. Правый, самый длинный приток Ешильырмака (Ириса)[1], в который впадает близ деревни Кызылчубук (тур.) (рус. в районе Эрбаа (тур.) (рус. близ древнего города Евпатории (англ.) (рус.или Магнополя[2][3]. Название Келькит происходит от арм. Գայլ գետ Гайл-гет, «Волчья река». Греки использовали название Лик (греч. Λύκος, «волк»), которое является переводом арм. գայլ «волк»[4][5].Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.
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