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The Aras [a] is a transboundary river in the Caucasus.It rises in eastern Turkey and flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia, between Turkey and the Nakhchivan exclave of Azerbaijan, between Iran and both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and, finally, through Azerbaijan where it flows into the Kura river as a right tributary.
Old map showing the drainage south of the Caucasus split between the Phasis on the west and the Kura on the east. It rises in northeastern Turkey in a small valley in the Kars Upland [13] of the Lesser Caucasus. It flows west, then north and east past Ardahan, and crosses into Georgia.
The Caucasus (/ ˈ k ɔː k ə s ə s /) or Caucasia [3] [4] (/ k ɔː ˈ k eɪ ʒ ə /), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia.It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, mainly comprising Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and parts of Southern Russia.
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The rivers that directly flow into the Caspian Sea, originate mainly from the north-eastern slope of the Greater Caucasus and Talysh Mountains and run along the Samur-Devechi and Lenkeran lowlands. The Kura River basin area (86,000 km 2) up to the junction with the Aras River is smaller than the Aras water basin (101,937 km 2). The river is ...
The largest river is the Kura River, which flows 1,364 km from northeast Turkey across the plains of eastern Georgia, through the capital, Tbilisi, and into the Caspian Sea. The Rioni River, the largest river in western Georgia, rises in the Greater Caucasus and empties into the Black Sea at the port of Poti. Soviet engineers turned the river ...
Map of Nakhchivan, with Turkey to the north-west Map of the shifting border between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. During the 19th century the Caucasus region was contested between the declining Ottoman Empire, Persia and Russia, which was expanding southwards.
Kura River (or Cyrus River) may refer to following rivers: Kura (South Caucasus river) , a major international river that drains into the Caspian Sea Kura (Russia) , a river in Russia that drains into the Nogai Steppe