Aral Sea

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Mar 16, 2018 01:06 PM — History

The Aral Sea, a large lake of Asia, is a remnant of the ancient Paratethys Sea. It was once one of the largest lakes in the world.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442241741

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
45.0, 60.0

Locations:

location of Aral Sea (modern)

Names:

None

Aral Sea makes connections with:

None

Aral Sea receives connections from:

Oxus (river) flows into Aral Sea (unspecified date range)
Iaxartes/Silis/Tanais (river) flows into Aral Sea (modern)

Place type:
lake

References:

See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Aral Sea

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Aral Sea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442241741> [accessed: 03 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442241741 |title=Places: 442241741 (Aral Sea) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=August 3, 2020 9:04 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Aral Sea