Yeşilırmak (river)
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The Yeşilırmak (Template:Langx, Template:Lit), known as the Iris in antiquity (Template:Langx), is a river in northern Turkey. From its source northeast of Sivas, it flows past Tokat and Amasya, crosses the Pontic Mountains and the Çarşamba Plain, reaching the Black Sea east of Samsun after Script error: No such module "convert"..
Its tributaries include the Çekerek (ancient Scylax) and the Kelkit (ancient Lycus).
It was mentioned by Menippus of Pergamon in the 1st century BC.[1][2]
Strabo's Geographica describes it as flowing through Comana Pontica, the plain of Dazimonitis (Kaşova) (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".), and Gaziura (probably modern Turhal)[3] before receiving the waters (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) of the Scylax, then flowing through Amaseia (Amasya) before reaching the valley of Phanaroea.[4]
Starting with Dionysius Periegetes, in his Periegesis of the World, the Iris is often confused with the Thermodon (modern Terme), which also crosses the Themiscyra Plain (modern Çarşamba Plain), with its mouth about 40 km further east; the Thermodon is much smaller and clearer.[5]
Notes
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- ↑ Serena Bianchetti, Michele Cataudella, Hans-Joachim Gehrke, [Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography: The Inhabited World in Greek and Roman Tradition (BRILL, 4 Dec 2015) p 263.
- ↑ Georgia L. IrbyGeorgia L. Irby, A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome, 2 Volume Set (John Wiley & Sons, 2016) p 865.
- ↑ Phytoplankton and seasonal variations of the River Yeşilırmak, Amasya, Turkey (9 May 2003)
- ↑ Strabo 12:3:15 at Perseus
- ↑ Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, Marit Jensen, "Two Pontic Rivers", Cedrus: The Journal of MCRI 3:231-2142 (2015), Script error: No such module "CS1 identifiers".
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