View of the delta of Strymon river from the acropolis of Amphipolis.

The siltation of the river delta forced the town further away from water ; In the 14th century, however, Ibn Battutah described Abadan just as a small port in a flat salty plain.

A branch of the Bastarnae, called the Peucini by Greco-Roman writers, occupied the region north of the Danube river delta.

Archaeological findings in the Sarawak river delta reveal that the area was once a thriving trading centre between India and China from the 500's until about 1300 AD.

At the end of the rainy season in the fall, the river overflows its banks and creates a huge floodplain in the delta.

The history of the Netherlands is the history of a seafaring people thriving on a watery lowland river delta on the North Sea in northwestern Europe.

The powerful kingdom of Eshnunna controlled the upper Tigris River while Larsa controlled the river delta.

Here the Tigris and Euphrates rivers lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area is a river delta interlaced by the channels of the two rivers and by irrigation canals.

The only permanent river, the Okavango, flows into a delta in the northwest, forming marshes that are rich in wildlife.

The Irrawaddy, the main river of Burma, flows from north to south through the Central Burma Basin and ends in a wide delta.

In the Netherlands it continues northwards through Venlo closely along the border to Germany, then turns towards the west, where it runs parallel to the Waal river and forms part of the extensive Rhine – Meuse – Scheldt delta, together with the Scheldt river in its south and the Rhine river in the north.

Modern names for the distributaries of the river delta were settled only by the end of the 18th century.

The delta of Neva was formed at that time, which is actually pseudodelta, as it was formed not by accumulation of river material but by plunging into the past sediments.

The average width along the river is 400 – 600 m. The widest places ( 1000 – 1250 m ) are in the delta, near the gates of Sea trading port, at the end of the Ivanovo rapids near the confluence of the river Tosna, and near the island Fabrinchny near the source.

The increase in shipping traffic created a capacity problem: there were too many branches in the river delta, making the port difficult to reach.

The Po (,, ancient Ligurian: Bodincus or Bodencus, ) is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest face of Monviso ( in the Cottian Alps ) through a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

This inland sea of some is connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz ; and its western end is marked by the major river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Iraq's egress to the gulf is narrow and easily blockaded consisting of the marshy river delta of the Shatt al-Arab, which carries the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, where the east bank is held by Iran.

The central plain is a lowland area drained by the Chao Phraya River and its tributaries, the country's principal river system, which feeds into the delta at the head of the Bay of Bangkok.

That is why the river was originally called the River of the Strait by early French settlers.

It was originally an area of marshland along the banks of the Eridanos river which was used as a cemetery as long ago as the third millennium BC.

In Cadiz ( Spain ), the river Guadalete was originally named Lethe by local Greek and Phoenician colonists who, about to go to war, solved instead their differences by diplomacy and named the river Lethe to forever forget their former differences.

The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied only to the middle reaches of the river, is uncertain.

Under development since 1935, this amphibious tractor was originally intended for use by Army engineers to assist with river crossings.

The smaller Cybina river flows through eastern Poznań to meet the east branch of the Warta ( that branch is also called Cybina – its northern section was originally a continuation of that river, while its southern section has been artificially widened to form a main stream of the Warta ).

* It may have been originally Tarnowo, based on the Polish word tarnina, a kind of river plant.

The goddess Sarasvati was originally a personification of this river, but later developed an independent identity and gained meaning.

is an exact cognate with Avestan Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī, perhaps originally referring to Arədvī Sūrā Anāhitā ( modern Ardwisur Anahid ), the Zoroastrian mythological world river, which would point to a common Indo-Iranian myth of a cosmic or mystical river.

The Bulgars ( also Bolgars or proto-Bulgarians ) were a semi-nomadic people of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ( then Itil ).

In the late 1970s, the river was the subject of a successful ecological campaign ( called " Save the River "), originally responding to planned development by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

The Welsh name for the river, Mynwy, which may originally have meant " fast-flowing ", was anglicised as Monnow.

The river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully armed fort of San Cristobal, is crossed by a magnificent granite bridge, originally built in 1460, repaired in 1597 and rebuilt in 1833.

Forts that were built along the line of Anduin from Emyn Muil to the inflow of Limlight to guard the passage of the river were originally manned by the people of Calenardhon, but were mostly abandoned during the Watchful Peace.

The river was originally a grayling fishery with brook trout being released in the 1880s.

The area was originally inhabited by the Ais tribe, a hunter-gatherer culture whose territory extended from south of the St. John's river to the St. Lucie Inlet.

Having originally no specific name, the region east of the river Halys was spoken of as the country εν Πόντοι en Pontôi, " on the Pontos ", and hence acquired the name of Pontus, which is first found in Xenophon's Anabasis.

This was perhaps originally meant in a literal sense: the position of bridge-builder was indeed an important one in Rome, where the major bridges were over the Tiber, the sacred river ( and a deity ): only prestigious authorities with sacral functions could be allowed to " disturb " it with mechanical additions.

The canal was originally planned to extend south from Columbia on the east side of the river, but local property owners objected.

* Caerdydd ( originally Caerdyf )-Fortress of ( the river ) Taf ;

He established four towns on the southern banks of the Rio Grande including Reynosa ( 1749 ), which was originally located across the river from the site of present-day Peñitas.

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

The Egyptians then opened up the Nile dams and let the river flood, hoping to prevent Amalric from invading any further.

Even certain male deities representing regeneration and fertility were occasionally depicted with breast-like appendices, such as the river god Hapy who was considered to be responsible for the annual overflowing of the Nile.

The eastern border lies along the edge of the Nile river watershed.

Alluvial fans exist in all of the world's oceans and seas where river deltas fall off the edge of the continental shelf such as the Mississippi alluvial fan in the gulf of Mexico and the Nile alluvial fan in the Mediterranean Sea.

The river Nile flows through Cairo, here contrasting ancient customs of daily life with the modern city of today

The city is along the Nile River, immediately south of the point where the river leaves its desert-bound valley and branches into the low-lying Nile Delta region.

Although the Cairo metropolis extends away from the Nile in all directions, the city of Cairo resides only on the east bank of the river and two islands within it on a total area of.

Until the mid-19th century, when the river was tamed by dams, levees, and other controls, the Nile in the vicinity of Cairo was highly susceptible to changes in course and surface level.

Over the years, the Nile gradually shifted westward, providing the site between the eastern edge of the river and the Mokattam highlands on which the city now stands.

In Cairo, and along the Nile River Valley, the climate is a desert climate ( BWh according to the Köppen climate classification system ), but often with high humidity due to the river valley's effects.

Control of the river Nile was considered vitally important for any expedition into Egypt and the Sudan.

The Nile Valley and Delta, the most extensive oasis on earth, was created by the world's longest river and its seemingly inexhaustible sources.

In its course from Lake Victoria to Juba in southern Sudan, the White Nile's channel drops more than 600 m. In its 1, 600-km course from Juba to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, the river descends just 75 m. In southern and central Sudan, the White Nile passes through a wide, flat plain covered with swamp vegetation and slows almost to the point of stagnation.

This river has a steeper gradient and therefore flows more swiftly than the White Nile, which it joins at Khartoum.

For several kilometres north of Khartoum, water closer to the eastern bank of the river, coming from the Blue Nile, is visibly muddy, while that closer to the western bank, and coming from the White Nile, is clearer.

Thus, before the Aswan High Dam was completed in 1971, the White Nile watered the Egyptian stretch of the river throughout the year, whereas the Blue Nile, carrying seasonal rain from Ethiopia, caused the Nile to overflow its banks and deposit a layer of fertile mud over adjacent fields.

The construction of dams on the Nile, particularly the Aswan High Dam, transformed the mighty river into a large and predictable irrigation ditch.

From there, Ibn Battuta travelled southwest along a river he believed to be the Nile ( it was actually the river Niger ), until he reached the capital of the Mali Empire.