English word senses marked with place category "Rivers in Turkey"
Parent categories: Rivers, Places, Bodies of water, Names, Landforms, Water, Earth, Liquids, Nature, Matter, Chemistry, Sciences
Total 11 word senses
- Ankara (Proper name) A river in Turkey near the city, a tributary of the Sakarya.
- Araks (Proper name) A river in Turkey, Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan and empties into Kura river.
- Bartın (Proper name) A river in northern Turkey, that flows into the Black Sea.
- Ceyhan (Proper name) A river in Anatolia, in southern Turkey, also known as the Pyramus, flowing 509 km from the Taurus Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Euphrates (Proper name) A river in the Middle East, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.
- Kur (Proper name) Alternative form of Kura (“a river in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan”).
- Kura (Proper name) A river in Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, where receiving waters of Araks empties into Caspian Sea.
- Sakarya (Proper name) A river in Turkey.
- Scamander (Proper name) A river in modern Turkey near the site of Troy.
- Seyhan (Proper name) A river in Cilicia, in southern Turkey, also known as the Sarus, flowing to the Mediterranean Sea.
- Tigris (Proper name) A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from the Armenian Highland in Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf.
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