Uzboy
Sign in to saveThe 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. It was a part of the ancient region of Dahistan.
Key facts
- River.name
- Uzboy
- River.map
- Usboi openstreetmap.jpg
- River.map_caption
- Current Uzboy riverbed in Turkmenistan
- River.image
- ISS015-E-24194 - View of Earth.jpg
- River.image_caption
- Satellite view of the Uzboy River in 2007
- River.country
- Turkmenistan
- River.length
- 550 km
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Usboi and Western Usboi
- Glukhovskoy’s account
- Current environmental pollution in the Usboi River basin
- As namesake
- See also
- Literature
- References
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. It was a part of the ancient region of Dahistan.
Now a dry river channel and a center for archaeological excavations, the Uzboy flowed some , from a branch in the Amu Darya River via Sarykamysh Lake to the Caspian Sea. A riverine civilization existed along the banks of the river from at least the 5th century BC until the 17th century AD, when the water which had fed the Uzboy abruptly stopped flowing out of the main course of the Amu Darya. The Uzboy dried up, and the Turkmen tribes which had inhabited the river's banks were abruptly dispersed, the survivors becoming nomadic desert dwellers.