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Sakarya River is the third longest river in Turkey, also known as Sangarius. 824 km Seydisuyu; Porsuk River; Ankara River; Harşit River in Gümüşhane and Giresun; Yeşilırmak 'Green River' (Classical Iris). 418 km Çekerek River (Classical Scylax) is a tributary; Kelkit River (Classical Lycus (one of several)) is a tributary; Yağlıdere ...
In the 130s a governor of Cappadocia wrote: "long ago the Halys River was the boundary between the kingdom of Croesus and the Persian Empire; now it flows under Roman dominion." [4] The river's water is used to grow rice and in a few areas water buffalo are kept. There are dams on the river at Boyabat, Altınkaya and Derbent. Dams have reduced ...
The Seyhan River (formerly written Seihan, Sihun; ancient name: Ancient Greek: Σάρος, Sáros), alternatively known as Sarus (or in Turkish as Sarus Su), [2] is the longest river of Cilicia and the longest of Turkey that flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
The three longest rivers in Turkey also have the highest capacity hydropower plants, the largest being Atatürk Dam on the Euphrates. On the same river are the second and third largest. Ilısu on the Tigris is the newest large dam. In contrast, the Kızılırmak River, which flows north into the Black Sea, has smaller projects.
The Kızılırmak Delta is the delta of the Kızılırmak River where it flows into the Black Sea, 40 km east of the city of Samsun. [2] The delta is the third largest in Turkey [3] and has the biggest wetland in Turkey's Black Sea Region. [4]
The Atatürk Dam (Turkish: Atatürk Barajı), originally the Karababa Dam, is the third largest dam in the world and it is a zoned rock-fill dam with a central core [1] on the Euphrates River on the border of Adıyaman Province and Şanlıurfa Province in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey.
The Amadiya valley within the Great Zab drainage basin is the third-largest valley in the Iraqi Zagros, after the Shahrazor and the Ranya Plain. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The Great Zab rises in the highlands of the Zagros Mountains, where a climate with cold winter and annual precipitation in excess of 1,000 millimetres (39 in) prevails.
In Muş Province, the river is interrupted near Toklu by the Alpaslan-1 Dam, [2] [3] which was completed in 2009. The Alpaslan-2 Dam was completed in 2021 [4] and is located downstream of Alpaslan-1. The river merges into the reservoir of the Keban Dam, at one time Turkey's largest dam, which was completed in 1974 and provides electrical power. [5]