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The Kizilirmak ("Red River"; , Halys River) is the longest river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 in Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. It is a source of hydroelectric power and it is not used for navigation.

Kizilirmak flows for a total of about 1,150 kilometers, rising in the eastern Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
n highlands around , flowing first to the west and south-west until , then forming a wide arch, the Halys bend, flowing first to the west, then to the north-west, passing to the north-east of Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz

Lake Tuz is the second biggest lake in Turkey, located in the Central Anatolia Region, northeast of Konya and south-southeast of Ankara.For most of the year, this very shallow and salinity lake has an area of ....
, then to the north and northeast where it is joined by its major tributary, the Delice River (also known by its Greek name Cappadox
Cappadox

The Delice River is the major river of Cappadocia . It flows into the Kizil River at before emptying into the Black Sea....
) at , and after zig-zagging to the north-west to the confluence with the Devrez River at , and back to the north-east finally empties into the Black Sea
Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
 at .

Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 called it the Marassantiya River.






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The Kizilirmak ("Red River"; , Halys River) is the longest river
River

A river is a natural stream of water, usually freshwater, flowing toward an ocean, a lake, or another stream. In some cases a river flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water....
 in Turkey
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
. It is a source of hydroelectric power and it is not used for navigation.

Geography

The Kizilirmak flows for a total of about 1,150 kilometers, rising in the eastern Anatolia
Anatolia

Anatolia or Asia Minor is a region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. It is a geographic region bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Aegean Sea to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Iranian plateau to the east and southeast....
n highlands around , flowing first to the west and south-west until , then forming a wide arch, the Halys bend, flowing first to the west, then to the north-west, passing to the north-east of Lake Tuz
Lake Tuz

Lake Tuz is the second biggest lake in Turkey, located in the Central Anatolia Region, northeast of Konya and south-southeast of Ankara.For most of the year, this very shallow and salinity lake has an area of ....
, then to the north and northeast where it is joined by its major tributary, the Delice River (also known by its Greek name Cappadox
Cappadox

The Delice River is the major river of Cappadocia . It flows into the Kizil River at before emptying into the Black Sea....
) at , and after zig-zagging to the north-west to the confluence with the Devrez River at , and back to the north-east finally empties into the Black Sea
Black Sea

The Black Sea is an inland sea sea bounded by southeastern Europe, the Caucasus and the Anatolia and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Seas and various straits....
 at .

History

The Hittites
Hittites

The Hittites were an ancient Anatolian people who spoke a Hittite language of the Anatolian languages of the Indo-European languages family, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia ca....
 called it the Marassantiya River. It formed the boundary of the land Hatti
Hatti

Hatti in Bronze Age Anatolia refers to:*the area of Hattusa, roughly delimited by the Halys bend*the Hattians of the 3rd millennium BC and 2nd millennium BC millennia BC...
, the core land of the Hittite Empire. In the Classical Antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 it was the boundary between Asia Minor and the rest of Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
. As the site of the Battle of the Eclipse on May 28, 585 BC, it was the border between Lydia
Lydia

Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkey provinces of Manisa Province and inland Izmir Province....
 and Media until Croesus
Croesus

Croesus was the Monarch of Lydia from 560/561 BC until his defeat by the Persian Empire in about 547 BC. The fall of Croesus made a profound impact on the Greeks, providing a fixed point in their calendar....
 of Lydia crossed it to attack Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great , , also known as Cyrus II of Persia and Cyrus the Elder, was a Persian people Shah . He was the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty, an empire, perhaps the most wealthy and magnificent in history....
 in 547 BC. He was defeated and Persia expanded to the Aegean Sea
Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkans and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey respectively....
.

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