Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northwest China, eastern Kazakhstan, and central Russia flowing about 4,250 km (2,650 mi) generally northwest to the Ob River.
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- proper noun A major river in
Siberia ,Russia .
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- noun an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River
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Examples
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This book's great strength is the sheer quantity of data it brings together, including on obscure disputed river systems like the Irtysh that originates in Xinjiang and flows into Siberia.
Grand Theft Hydro Pramit Pal Chaudhuri 2011
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The Altai is the major mountain range in Western Siberia biogeographic region and plays a central role in maintaining the hydrological regime of the Western Siberian Lowlands, by providing the source of the greatest rivers of Western Siberia - the Ob and the Irtysh
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Several large rivers, such as the Ural and Irtysh and their tributaries, traverse the region.
Kazakh steppe 2008
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Kazakhstan's hydroelectric facilities are located primarily along the Irtysh river, which flows from China across northeast Kazakhstan.
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The Ob, Irtysh and Enisey rivers and their numerous tributaries have their headwaters here.
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Broad rivers -- the Ob ', the Irtysh, the Yenisey, and the Lena, for example -- wend their way across the tundra toward the Arctic Ocean, but by October they freeze over so thickly that they can be used as truckways until spring.
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Waterways: 3,900 km note: on the Syrdariya (Syr Darya) and Ertis (Irtysh) rivers
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Waterways: 3,900 km on the Syrdariya (Syr Darya) and Ertis (Irtysh)
The 2000 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the farming folk of the region about Moscow were emigrating south and east and establishing themselves in the fertile plains of the Don, the Volga, and the Irtysh.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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Ural mountains, or the district between the rivers Obi, Irtysh, Kama, and Volga.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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