Aras, River

1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun.

Achlar, Araxis, a famed River of Armenia Major, it is called in the latter Maps Arais, by others Caiacz, by the Persians Arass: Its ancient Name is fetched from the violence of its Stream. The Fountains of this River are within 16 Miles of the Fountains of the Euphrates. And it divides Armenia from Media Atropatia, and falls into the Caspian Sea. Busbequius saith, that in his time (viz. 1545.) this River was the bound between the Persian and the Turkish Empires, as I believe it is still. There is another of the same name in Mesopotamia, which falls into Euphrates below Thapsacum.