Fluss in Turkmenistan - Amudarja, Hari Rud, Murgab, Kaschaf (English, German, Paperback)

Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: The Amu Darya (Persian:, mdary), also called Oxus and Amu River, is a major river in Central Asia. It is formed by the junction of the Vakhsh and Panj rivers. In ancient times, the river was regarded as the boundary between Irn and Trn. Pontoon Bridge on the Amu River near UrgenchThe name Amu is said to have come from the city of mul, now known as Trkmenabat, in modern Turkmenistan. In antiquity, the river was known as Vaksu to Indo-Aryans. In classical antiquity, the river was known as the xus in Latin and Oxos in Greek - a clear derivative of Vakhsh - the name of the largest tributary of the river. In Middle Persian sources of the Sassanid period the river is known as Wehrd (lit. "good river"). Medieval Arabic and Muslim sources call the river Jayhoun (¬) which is derived from Gihon, the biblical name for one of the four rivers of the Garden of Eden. Amu Darya is a river almost in reverse, for long reputed to be sourced by a powerful glacier fed stream high in the Pamir Knot at the eastern end of Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, and ending not at the sea but speading out into the sands of Turkmenistan's Kyzyl Kum desert, well short of its historic terminus of the inland Aral Sea. Map of the Amu Darya drainage basin Map of area around the Aral Sea. Aral Sea boundaries are circa 1960. Countries at least partially in the Aral Sea watershed are in yellow.The river's total length is 2,400 kilometres (1,500 mi) and its drainage basin totals 534,739 square kilometres (206,464 sq mi) in area, providing a mean discharge of around 97.4 cubic kilometres (23.4 cu mi) of water per year. The river is navigable for over 1,450 kilometres (900 mi). All of the water comes from the high mountains in the south where annual precipitation can be over 1,000 mm (39 in). Even before large-scale irrigation began, high summer evaporation meant that not all of this discharge reached the Aral Se...http: //booksllc.net/?l=de