Çoruh
River in Turkey and Georgia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Chorokh (Georgian: ჭოროხი Ch'orokhi, Turkish: Çoruh, Armenian: Ճորոխ Chorokh, Azerbaijani: Çorox, Greek: Άκαμψις, Akampsis) is a river that rises in the Mescit Mountains in north-eastern Turkey, flows through the cities of Bayburt, İspir, Yusufeli, and Artvin, along the Kelkit-Çoruh Fault, before flowing into Georgia, where it reaches the Black Sea just south of Batumi and a few kilometers north of the Turkish-Georgian border.
Çoruh Chorokh, Ch'orokhi, Acampsis | |
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Location | |
Countries | Turkey and Georgia |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Mescit Mountains |
Mouth | Black Sea |
• coordinates | 41.6047°N 41.5742°E / 41.6047; 41.5742 |
Length | 438 km (272 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 22,100 km2 (8,500 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 278 m3/s (9,800 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• right | Machakhelistsqali, Acharistsqali |
In Arrian's Periplus Ponti Euxini, it is called the Acampsis (Greek: Άκαμψις); Pliny may have confused it with the Bathys.[2] Procopius writes that it was called Acampsis because it was impossible to force a way through it after it has entered the sea, since it discharges its stream with such force and swiftness, causing a great disturbance of the water before it, that it goes out for a very great distance into the sea and makes it impossible to coast along at that point.[3]
In English, it was formerly known as the Boas, the Churuk, or the Chorokh.[4][5]