Uzboy
The Uzboy was a distributary of the Amu Darya river which flowed through the northwestern part of the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan until the 17th century, when it abruptly dried up, eliminating the agricultural population that had thrived along its banks.- Dry stream bed
- …is also known as “Staroye Ruslo Amu-Dar’i”
- Description: former river in Turkmenistan
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Latitude
39.5° or 39° 30′ north
Longitude
55° east
Open location code
8HFQG222+22
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Uzboy” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ուզբոյ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Uzboy”
- Azerbaijani: “Uzboy”
- Bulgarian: “Узбой”
- Cebuano: “Uzboy”
- Chinese: “乌兹伯伊水道”
- Chinese: “烏茲博伊河”
- Chinese: “烏茲波以河”
- Dutch: “Oezboj”
- Dutch: “Uzboy River”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Uzbojo”
- Finnish: “Uzboý”
- French: “Ouzboï”
- Georgian: “უზბოი”
- German: “Usboi”
- Hebrew: “אוזבוי”
- Irish: “Abhainn Uzboy”
- Italian: “Uzboj”
- Japanese: “ウズボイ川”
- Kazakh: “Özboýlar”
- Kazakh: “Өзбойлар”
- Kazakh: “ٴوزبويلار”
- Kirghiz: “Узбой”
- Latin: “Uzboi”
- Lithuanian: “Uzbojus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uzboj”
- Norwegian: “Uzboj”
- Persian: “اوزبوی”
- Polish: “Uzboj”
- Russian: “Узбой”
- Spanish: “Usboj”
- Spanish: “Uzboj”
- Spanish: “Uzboy”
- Turkmen: “Uzboý derýasy”
- Turkmen: “Uzboý”
- Ukrainian: “Узбой”
- Uzbek: “Oʻzboʻy”
- Welsh: “Afon Uzboy”
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