Iaxartes/Silis/Tanais (river)

natural · 330 BC – 2099 AD

Iaxartes/Silis/Tanais fl. (Syr Darya river) is a river of Central Asia. It flows from the Tian Shan Mountains in Kyrgyzstan and eastern Uzbekistan to the remains of the Aral Sea.

Coordinates

43.43289, 66.51560

Also known as

Araxes, Iaxartes, Laxates, Nehr-i Seyḥūn (ota), Nehr-i Şāş (ota), Orexartes, Oxyartes, Silis, Tanais, نهر شاش (ota)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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