The Syr Darya /ˌsɪər ˈdɑːrjə/ SEER-DAR-yə, historically known as the Jaxartes (/dʒækˈsɑːrtiːz/ jak-SAR-teez, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης), is a river in Central...

The Syr Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi), or Syr Darya shovelnose sturgeon, is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found...

The Syr-Darya Oblast was one of the oblasts of the Russian Empire, a part of Russian Turkestan. Its center was Tashkent. The Syr-Darya Oblast was founded...

bringing unemployment and economic hardship. The water from the diverted Syr Darya river is used to irrigate about two million hectares (5,000,000 acres)...

Kazakhstan along the Irgiz, Yaik, Emba, and Uil rivers, the Aral Sea area, the Syr Darya valley, the foothills of the Karatau Mountains in Tien-Shan, and the Chui...

built a line of forts from the north side of the Aral Sea eastward up the Syr Darya river. In 1847–1864, they crossed the eastern Kazakh Steppe and built...

Yakhsha Arta ('Upper Yakhsha'), referring to the Jaxartes/Syr Darya twin river to Amu Darya). In Middle Persian sources of the Sasanian period the river...

The Syr-Darya dace (Squalius squaliusculus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the Aral Sea basin. Froese, Rainer;...

other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. Some rivers (e.g. Syr Darya) do not flow through Kyrgyzstan themselves, but they are mentioned for...

through a now-desiccated riverbed called the Uzboy River, as did the Syr Darya farther north. The Caspian has several small islands, primarily located...

Aral teñızı) is the portion of the former Aral Sea that is fed by the Syr Darya River. It split from the South Aral Sea in 1987–1988 as water levels dropped...

Geographically, it is the region between the rivers Amu Darya to its south and the Syr Darya to its north. The region of Transoxiana was one of the satrapies...

Railway (1849–1864) Sýr, a name of Freyja in Norse mythology The IATA airport code for Syracuse Hancock International Airport Syr Darya, a major river of...

(modern-day West Kazakhstan), most of Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan and the Syr Darya river with military confrontation as far as Astrakhan and Khorasan, which...

Cumans. There were groups of Kipchaks in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, China, Syr Darya and Siberia. Cumania was conquered by the Mongol Empire in the early 13th...

to two rivers, the Naryn and the Kara Darya, which run from the east, joining near Namangan, forming the Syr Darya river. The valley's history stretches...

Tajikistan's dense river network, the largest rivers are the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya; the largest tributaries are the Vakhsh and the Kofarnihon, which...

Aral Sea Urals Syr- Darya Caspian Ferghana Zhetysu Tian_Shan_Mountains Lake Balkash Dzun- garia Tarim_Basin This is a short History of the central steppe...

located in Central Asia, in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxania. Today it is divided...

Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It occupied the land between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, known formerly as Transoxiana. Its core territory was the...

originally at Lake Balkhash, but later moved to Sygnaq, Kazakhstan on the Syr-Darya River. When Batu Khan sent a large Jochid delegation to Hulegu's campaign...

romanized: Baiqoñyr [bɑjqoˈŋɤr]) is a city in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river. It is currently leased and administered by the Russian Federation...

region was known to Chinese scholars as Kangju, which was centered on the Syr Darya (also known as the Kang River). Kangju existed from the 1st century BC...

Massagetae, a nomadic Eastern Iranian tribal confederation, along the Syr Darya in December 530 BC. However, Xenophon of Athens claimed that Cyrus did...

center of the Turkistan Region in southern Kazakhstan, located near the Syr Darya River. Positioned 160 km (100 miles) northwest of Shymkent, it lies along...

oblasts (provinces): Syr Darya, Semirechye Oblast and the Zeravshan Okrug (later Samarkand Oblast). To these were added in 1873 the Amu Darya Division (Russian:...

1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon)...

lower Syr Darya, died in poverty in 1815. Nurali II (1769) Jahangir (1769–1770) ru: son of Kaip. Bölekey (1770) ru: a Kazakh from lower Syr Darya, expelled...

itself), including the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins, in Central Asia. P. fedtschenkoi is restricted to Syr Darya, but has not been seen in decades...

Moghulistan (“Mongol land”). The Western part (inhabited by nomads of Syr-darya and settled peoples of Khwarazm) was called Turkestan (Turk land), although...