Kelkit River

Kelkit River
Kelkit River
Location
Country	Turkey
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Yeşilırmak River
• coordinates	40°45′58″N36°30′33″E/ 40.7660°N 36.5092°E

TheKelkit River(Turkish:Kelkit IrmağıorKelkit Çayı), is a river in theBlack Sea RegionofTurkey.It is the longest tributary of theYeşilırmak.Its name derives from the ArmenianGayl get(Armenian:Գայլ գետ'wolf river', Kayl ked in Western Armenian pronunciation).^[1]Its Greek name isLykos(Greek:Λύκος), also meaning 'wolf', and romanized asLycus.^[2]^[3]

It rises inGümüşhane Provinceand runs through the provinces ofErzincan,Giresun,Sivas,andTokatbefore flowing into the Yeşilırmak at the modern village ofKızılçubuk,near the site of the ancient city ofEupatoria.The Kelkit follows theNorth Anatolian Faultfor about 150 km fromSuşehritoResadiyeandNiksar.^[4]

In Hellenistic times, a major east-west road following the valley of the Kelkit led fromArmenia MinortoBithynia.^[5]

It was the site of theBattle of the Lycusin 66 BCE

Phanaroea

The valley of the last 40 km of the Kelkit is the Erbaa plain (Erbaa Ovası), known in antiquity as the Phanaroea.

Notes

^Bryer, Anthony(1988).Peoples and settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus: 800-1900.Variorum Publishing. p. 21....Kelkit is no more than Gayl Get, the Armenian translation of Wolf River.
^Antonio Sagonaand Claudia Sagona,Archaeology At The North-east Anatolian Frontier, I: An Historical Geography And A Field Survey of the Bayburt Province(Ancient Near Eastern Studies)Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series14,2004.ISBN 90-429-1390-8.p. 68, quoting Robert H. Hewsen,Geography of Ananias of Sirak: Aesxarhacoyc, the Long and the Short Recensions(Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO): Series B), 1992, p. 153.
^Hovannisian, Richard G.,ed. (2004).Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia.Mazda Publishers. p. 46.ISBN 9781568591520....Kelkit in Turkish pronunciation, or Gayl Get (Wolf River) in Classical Armenian, and its equivalent in Greek (Lycus).
^Aykut Barka,"North Anatolian Fault Field Trip Report",Southern California Earthquake Newsletter(online version),3:4full text retrieved 18 August 2009.
^B. C. McGing,The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus(Mnemosyne Ser.: Suppl. 89), 1997.ISBN 90-04-07591-7.p. 6f.

Bibliography

Kelkit Basin Museums

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[1] Bryer, Anthony(1988).Peoples and settlement in Anatolia and the Caucasus: 800-1900.Variorum Publishing. p. 21....Kelkit is no more than Gayl Get, the Armenian translation of Wolf River.

[2] Antonio Sagonaand Claudia Sagona,Archaeology At The North-east Anatolian Frontier, I: An Historical Geography And A Field Survey of the Bayburt Province(Ancient Near Eastern Studies)Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series14,2004.ISBN 90-429-1390-8.p. 68, quoting Robert H. Hewsen,Geography of Ananias of Sirak: Aesxarhacoyc, the Long and the Short Recensions(Tubinger Atlas des Vorderen Orients (TAVO): Series B), 1992, p. 153.

[3] Hovannisian, Richard G.,ed. (2004).Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia.Mazda Publishers. p. 46.ISBN 9781568591520....Kelkit in Turkish pronunciation, or Gayl Get (Wolf River) in Classical Armenian, and its equivalent in Greek (Lycus).

[4] Aykut Barka,"North Anatolian Fault Field Trip Report",Southern California Earthquake Newsletter(online version),3:4full text retrieved 18 August 2009.

[5] B. C. McGing,The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus(Mnemosyne Ser.: Suppl. 89), 1997.ISBN 90-04-07591-7.p. 6f.

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