Iaxartes (English spelling)

Japanese: Iaxartēs(英語表記)Iaxartes
Iaxartes (English spelling)

…meaning “yellow river”. In ancient Greece it was called the Iaxartēs River. The Naryn River and the Kara Darya River in the western Tian Shan Mountains join in the eastern Fergana Basin in the eastern part of the Republic of Uzbekistan to form the Syr Darya, which flows westward and then northwestward into the Republic of Kazakhstan and empties into the Aral Sea. …

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Japanese:

…〈黄色い川〉の意味。古代ギリシアではヤクサルテスIaxartēs川と呼んだ。天山山脈西部のナリン川とカラ・ダリヤがウズベキスタン共和国東部のフェルガナ盆地東部で合流してシル・ダリヤとなり,西流ののち北西流してカザフスタン共和国に入り,アラル海へ注ぐ。…

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