Zarafshon (river)
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The Zarafshon[2]Template:Efn is a river in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Its name 'spreader of gold' in Persian refers to the presence of gold-bearing sands in the upper reaches of the river. It was known as the Polytimetus by the ancient Greeks.[3] The river is known in Russian as Zeravshan,Template:Efn and it was also formerly known as the Sughd River. [4] The river is Script error: No such module "convert". long and has a basin area of Script error: No such module "convert"..[5]
Geographic position
It rises at the Zeravshan Glacier, close to where the Turkestan Range and the Zeravshan Range of the Pamir-Alay mountains meet, in Tajikistan. In its upper course, upstream from its confluence with the Fan Darya, it is also called Matcha.[6] It flows due west for some Script error: No such module "convert"., passing Panjakent before entering Uzbekistan at Script error: No such module "Coordinates"., where it turns west-to-north-west, flowing past the legendary city of Samarkand, where it feeds the Dargom Canal, which is entirely dependent on the oasis thus created, until it bends left again to the west north of Navoiy and further to the south-west, passing Bukhara before it is lost in the desert beyond the city of Qorakoʻl (Karakul), not quite reaching the Amu Darya, of which it was formerly a tributary.
See also
- Zarafshon, a city in Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region, called "the gold capital of Uzbekistan".
- Zarafshan (disambiguation)
- Zarafshan Bridge
Notes
References
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- ↑ Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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- ↑ Зеравшан (река в Ср. Азии), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
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Further reading
- В.В. Бартольд "К Истории Орошения в Туркестане" (Collected Works, Vol.3) (Москва) 1965
- V.V. Barthold "Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion" (London) 1968
- Robert Lewis "Early Irrigation in West Turkestan" Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol.56 No..3 (Sept. 1966) pp467–491
- Edgar Knobloch "Beyond the Oxus" (London) 1972
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