Pulvar/Araxes? (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 22, 2025 10:18 AM
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History
The modern Pulvar/Sivand river in Iran is a tributary of the Kor river and flows near the site of Pasargadae and through the archaeologically significant Bolaghi Gorge. As such, it is possibly to be identified as the eastern upper course of the ancient Araxes.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922701
30.2051597877, 53.0448189596
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Pulvar/Sivand river (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Araxes (unspecified date range)
- پلوار (رود) (Polvar (rud): Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Polvār River (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Pulvar River (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- رودخانه سیوند (Rūdkhāneh-ye Sīvand: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Pulvar/Araxes? (river) flows into Kur/Araxes? (river) (unspecified date range)
- Pulvar/Araxes? (river) flows through Tang-e Bolaghi (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 94 D3 Pulvar/Araxes? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Pulvar
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pulvar/Araxes? (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922701> [accessed: 08 December 2025]
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