Oxus (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Oxus fl. (modern Amu Darya river) is a major river of central Asia. It flows from the Pamir Mountains to the Aral Sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59969
39.6757146255, 66.1250293209
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Amu Darya main stream (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- location of Amu Darya delta (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- location of Amu Darya (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- location of source of Amu Darya (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Oxus (river) flows into Aral Sea (unspecified date range)
- Ai Khanoum (Alexandria Oxiana?) located on Oxus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Takht-i Sangin located on Oxus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Tarmita/Termez connection Oxus (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 A1 Oxus fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Amu Darya Avst.: Vaxšu
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Oxus (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59969> [accessed: 23 April 2024]
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