Kızılırmak River
The Kızılırmak, once known as the Halys River and Alis River, is the longest river flowing entirely within Turkey. It is a source of hydroelectric power and is not used for navigation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Turkey, tributary of the Black Sea
- Also known as: “Alis”, “Halys”, “Halys River”, “Kizil”, “Kizilirmak”, “Kizilirmak River”, “Kızılırmak”, and “Marrassantiya”
Kızılırmak River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Kızılırmak River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kızılırmak”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἅλυς”
- Arabic: “نهر قزيل إرمق”
- Arabic: “نهر قيزيل إرماك”
- Arabic: “نهر قيزيليرماك”
- Armenian: “Ալիոս”
- Armenian: “Ալիս”
- Armenian: “Ալիսոս”
- Armenian: “Ալյուս”
- Armenian: “Գզըլրմագ”
- Armenian: “Գզլիրմագ”
- Armenian: “Գըզըլըրմաք”
- Armenian: “Լալիս”
- Armenian: “Խզըըրմախ”
- Armenian: “Կզըլ Իրմակ”
- Armenian: “Կզըլըրմագ”
- Armenian: “Կզըլըրմաք”
- Armenian: “Կզըլիրքակ”
- Armenian: “Կըզըլիրմակ”
- Armenian: “Կիզիլիրմակ”
- Armenian: “Հալիս”
- Armenian: “Ղզըլըրմաղ”
- Armenian: “Ղզըլիրմագ”
- Armenian: “Ղըզըլըրմաղ”
- Armenian: “Մարասանիտա”
- Armenian: “Քըզըլըրմաք”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kızılırmak”
- Azerbaijani: “Qızılirmaq”
- Basque: “Kizil-Irmak”
- Belarusian: “Галіс”
- Belarusian: “Кызылырмак”
- Belarusian: “Рака Кызылырмак”
- Bengali: “কিজিলির্মাক নদী”
- Bosnian: “Kizil”
- Breton: “Kızılırmak”
- Bulgarian: “Къзълърмак”
- Catalan: “Kizil Irmak”
- Catalan: “Kızılırmak”
- Cebuano: “Kızılırmak”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕووباری قزل ئیرماق”
- Chinese: “克泽尔河”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qızılırmaq”
- Croatian: “Kizil”
- Czech: “Kızılırmak”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qızılirmaq”
- Dutch: “Kizil Irmak”
- Eastern Mari: “Кызылырмак”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر قيزيل ارماك”
- Esperanto: “Kızılırmak”
- Estonian: “Kızılırmak”
- Finnish: “Kızılırmak”
- French: “Halys”
- French: “Kızılırmak”
- French: “Marrassantiya”
- Galician: “Río Halys”
- Galician: “Río Kızılırmak”
- Georgian: “ყიზილ-ირმაქი”
- German: “Halys”
- German: “Kizilirmak”
- German: “Kızılırmak”
- Greek: “Kızılırmak”
- Greek: “Άλυς”
- Hebrew: “קיזילאירמאק”
- Hungarian: “Kızılırmak”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kızılırmak”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kızılırmak”
- Italian: “Halys”
- Italian: “Kızılırmak”
- Italian: “Marrassantiya”
- Japanese: “クズルウルマク川”
- Kazakh: “Қызыл-Ирмак”
- Korean: “키질이르마크강”
- Kurdish: “Çemê Sor”
- Kurdish: “Halîs”
- Kurdish: “Rûbara Sor”
- Lak: “Къызылырмакь”
- Latin: “Halys”
- Latvian: “Kizilirmaka”
- Lithuanian: “Kizil Irmakas”
- Lithuanian: “Kizilirmakas”
- Lithuanian: “Kyzylyrmakas”
- Low German: “Halys”
- Low German: “Kizilirmak”
- Low German: “Kızılırmak”
- Macedonian: “Кизил”
- Macedonian: “Кизилирмак”
- Malay: “Sungai Kızılırmak”
- Mingrelian: “ყიზილირმაკი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kızılırmak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kızılırmak”
- Norwegian: “Kızılırmak”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kizil Irmak”
- Ossetian: “Кызылырмак”
- Persian: “قزلایرماق”
- Polish: “Halys”
- Polish: “Kızılırmak”
- Pontic: “Άλυς”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kızılırmak”
- Portuguese: “Rio Quizil-Irmaque”
- Romanian: “Kızılırmak”
- Russian: “Кызылырмак”
- Scots: “Kızılırmak River”
- Serbian: “Кизил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kizil”
- Slovak: “Halis”
- Slovak: “Halys”
- Slovak: “Kizil Irmak”
- Slovak: “Kizil-Irmak”
- Slovak: “Kizilirmak”
- Slovenian: “Halys”
- Slovenian: “Kizilirmak”
- Slovenian: “Kızılırmak”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیزلایرماق”
- Spanish: “Halys”
- Spanish: “Marrassantiya”
- Spanish: “Rio Kizil Irmak”
- Spanish: “Río Kizil Irmak”
- Spanish: “Río Kizilirmak”
- Swedish: “Kızılırmak”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Кизилирмак Ҳалйс”
- Tajik: “Кизилирмак Ҳалис”
- Tajik: “Қизилирмоқ”
- Turkish: “Kızılırmak Nehri”
- Turkish: “Kızılırmak”
- Udmurt: “Кызылырмак”
- Ukrainian: “Кизил-Ірмак”
- Urdu: “دریائے قیزیلایرماق”
- Uzbek: “Kızılırmak”
- Uzbek: “Qizilirmoq”
- Venetian: “Fiume Kizil Irmak”
- Welsh: “Afon Kızılırmak”
- Western Armenian: “Ալիս Գետ”
- Western Armenian: “Քըզըլ Ըրմաք”
- Western Mari: “Кызылырмак”
- Wu Chinese: “克泽尔河”
- “Kizilirmak”
- “Kızılırmak”
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