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Aksaray with it’s location at the point where East and West North and Sout embracing each other had taken it’s historical share from all civilization periods leaving traces at Middle Anatolia from first Bronze age uptoday.
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The Tigris River
The Tigris River is 1,150 miles long and begins in Turkey.
The river originates in the mountains of eastern Turkey and flows southeast into Iraq after briefly forming the extreme eastern portion of the border between Syria and Turkey.
In Iraq, it receives additional water from four important tributaries: the Greater Zab, the Lesser Zab, the Adhem and the Diyala. As a result, the Tigris is more subject to catastrophic flooding than the Euphrates. Annual flooding usually results in the Tigris rising from 4½ to 9 feet, with a record rise of 27 feet in 1954.
At Kut, the Tigris is about 1,300 feet wide and has a depth varying from a normal 4½ feet to 26 feet when flooding. The current at Kut ranges from 1¼ to as high as 4 miles per hour when flooding.
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Coruh River, one of the top ten rivers on the globe, is at Northeastern Turkey. Coruh is a white water delight, with seemingly endless rapids surging through deep gorges in a frantic bid to reach the sea. In the slower sections, calls to prayer echo across the valleys and our boats swirl in the quiet pools beneath the canyon walls.
The Coruh River is the younger, wilder and lesser known cousin of the biblical Euphrates River. It raises high in the remote north-east of Turkey a world away from the crowded Mediterranean coast.
Crumbling Byzantine castles cast shadows across the lush valleys of this fairy tale land, clear mountain streams tumble between acres of wild flowers and groves of olive trees witness the passing of the seasons.
Friendly villagers forget their laden donkeys and rush to wave our passing rafts. Life continues here much as it has done for centuries. These timeless mountains have been overlooked by invading armies for centuries and are still well beyond the reach of the conventional tourist.
The area surrounding the river is rich in wildlife, including gray bear, mountain goat with hooked horns, wild boar, wolf, jackal, fox, badger, marten, water sable, rabbit, partridge, wild rooster, woodcock, wild duck, stock dove, golden oriole, siskin, fieldfare, pigeon and wood pigeon.
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The Coruh River in north-east Turkey is recognized as one of the top ten white water rivers in the world, with its high volume rapids (up to grade 5 in May and June) fed by the snow-melt from the eastern Black Sea mountains in the north-east of Turkey. It flows through spectacular canyons and narrow fertile valleys or orchards and tiny paddy fields, past ancient ruined castles all set against a backdrop of magnificent rugged mountains and traditional village life virtually untouched by tourism.
The rafting event to be arranged for the first time on the River Coruh, one of Turkey’s natural beauties, is going to draw attention to the touristic potential of the Black Sea Region, to the Coruh Valley as well as the natural and historical sites in the vicinity.
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Rivers are generally named according to their color, environment and tumultuous nature. The majority are not navigable because they are capricious, violent and depth changing with the seasons. Most originate from the Turkish territory in the high plateaus of central and eastern Anatolia.
Rivers that flow into the Black Sea:
- The Kizilirmak (the red river), the old Halys River, is fed with thawing of snow and spring rains. It is 1,355 km / 842 miles long
- The Yesilirmak (the green river) is 416 km / 259 miles long
- The Sakarya is 790 km / 491 miles long
- The Çoruh rises in Georgia
Rivers that flow into the Marmara Sea:
- The Susurluk, Biga and Gönen
Rivers that flow into the Aegean Sea have a light and irregular flow:
- The Gediz Irmak
- The Meander (Büyük Menderes) has so many curves and windings that its name has contributed to the international terminology to describe them as “meanders of a river”. The river has formed a large alluvial plain.
- The Small Meander (Küçük Menderes).
- The Bakir
Rivers that flow into the Mediterranean Sea:
- The Ceyhan is 475 km / 296 miles long
- The Seyhan
- The Esen Çayi
- The Göksu
- The Asi River rises in Syria
- The Manavgat Çayi
The great Mesopotamian rivers:
- The Tigris (Dicle) is 1,950 km / 1,212 miles long. 452 km / 281 miles within Turkey.
- The Euphrates (Firat) is 2,780 km /1,728 miles long. 953 km / 593 miles within Turkey. Both rivers provide most of Turkey’s hydro-electric potential. They join in Irak and flow into the Persian Gulf.
- The Murat is an affluent of the Euphrates. It is 614 km / 382 miles long.
- The Aras flows flows over 435 km / 271 miles before entering Iran.
In Thrace, the Maritza (Meriç) and its affluent the Ergene flow along the Greek frontier.
From guide-martine.com
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