Aras

The Aras or Araxes or Araks is a river that starts in Turkey and then flows along the borders between Turkey and Armenia , between Turkey and the Nakhchivan area of Azerbaijan, between Iran and both Azerbaijan and Armenia, and finally through Azerbaijan to the Kura River. It drains the south side of the Lesser Caucasus Mountains and then joins the Kura, which drains the north side of Lesser Caucasus Mountains. Its total length is 1,072 kilometres , and its watershed covers an area of 102,000 square kilometres . The Aras River is one of the largest rivers in the Caucasus.

In the classical antiquity, the river was known to the Greeks as Araxes . Its modern Armenian name is Arax or Araks . Historically it was also known as Yeraskh , and its Old Georgian name is Rakhsi . In Azerbaijani, the river name is Araz. In Persian and Kurdish its name is ارس and in Turkish it is Aras.

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