Kelkit River
| Kelkit River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Mouth | |
• location | Yeşilırmak River |
• coordinates | 40°45′58″N 36°30′33″E / 40.7660°N 36.5092°ECoordinates: 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 Gümüşhane Province and runs through the provinces of Erzincan, Giresun, Sivas, and Tokat before flowing into the Yeşilırmak at the modern village of , 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]
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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