Kelkit River
| Kelkit River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Yeşilırmak River |
• coordinates | 40°45′58″N 36°30′33″E / 40.7660°N 36.5092°E |
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]
It rises in
In Hellenistic times, a major east-west road following the valley of the Kelkit led from
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ISBN 90-04-07591-7. p. 6f.
Bibliography
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