Aras, Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz (Persian: ارس, Armenian: Araks, Azerbaijani: Araz), is a river rising in Anatolia in Turkey, flowing along the Turkey-Armenia border, then along the Azerbaijan-Iran border, entering Azerbaijan, and falling into Kura river as a right tributary. Total length is about 600 miles. Persian (فارسی = Fârsi . ... Asia Minor lies east of the Bosporus, between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. ... The river Kura which flows NE through Transcaucasia, drains into the Caspian sea, was named after Cyrus the Great. ...

Aras was chosen as the border limit between Persia and Russia in the Treaty of Golestan in 1813 by which the whole area north of that river was cut off from Iran and annexed to Russia. Iran and the Soviet Union later built a joint dam on this river at Poldasht area. The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... Gulistan Peace Treaty of 1813, a peace treaty between imperial Russia and Persia, signed on October 24 (November 5) in a village of Gulistan in Karabakh at the end of the Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813. ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poldasht (پلدشت) is a city in the Maku township in the West Azarbaijan province in north-western Iran. ...

The Hellenized form Araxes is found in the name of the Kura-Araxes culture, a prehistoric people which flourished in the valleys of the Kura and Aras. The Kura-Araxes culture was a important Chalcolithic (copper-stone age) and bronze age culture that flourished in the Caucasus, eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran from about 4000 B.C. to 2200 B.C. after which they were presumably overrun and absorbed by the Hurrians, who swept down from the...

But many times it is the Volga river which is called Araxes especially in Herodotus` "History" first chapter - The First of Book the Histories, Called Clio. It is the river where the Massagetai defeat Cyrus.

By some, the river Araks has been associated with the otherwise unidentified Gihon river mentioned in the second chapter of the Bible. Gihon is the title of a river first mentioned in the second chapter of the Biblical book of Genesis. ...

The river Aras is also referred to in the song "Holy Mountains" on System of a Down's album entitled "Hypnotize". System of a Down (sometimes referred to as or System) is a band from Los Angeles, California. ...