On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

For one thing, there is a natural belt of rock across the river bed ; ;

Down through the axis of the bridge there is a long diminishing vista like a visual echo of piers and arches, while the vaults fronting upstream and down frame the sunset and sunrise, the mountains and river pools.

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

Second, they believed it important to determine the fate of the captain -- a man whose name is permanently stamped on our maps, on American towns and counties, on a great American river, and on half a million square miles of Arctic seas.

The 1961 theme is the Dakota Territorial Centennial, with the pictures including the Lewis and Clark expedition, the first river steamboat, the 1876 gold rush, a little red schoolhouse on the prairie, and today's construction of large Missouri River reservoirs.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

It is found in a region often called the Sea due to its profusion of constellations with watery associations such as Cetus the whale, Pisces the fish and Eridanus the river.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.

In the Appalachian Valley region the Coosa River is the principal river ; and in the Piedmont Plateau, the Tallapoosa River.

North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.

It is situated on the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube.

* 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the magister militum Ricimer.

It is used occasionally when it is necessary to limit the turning circle as the yacht swings when it is anchored, such as in a very narrow river or a deep pool in an otherwise shallow area.

Anadyr () is a river in the far northeast Siberia which flows into Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

If the Onemen Bay is considered part of the river, it also receives the Velikaya River ( Chukotka ) from the south and the Kanchalan River from the north.

The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

In the initial stanzas of the poem Asagarth is the capital of Asaland, a section of Asia to the east of the Tana-kvísl or Vana-Kvísl river ( kvísl is " fork "), which Snorri explains is the Tanais, or Don River, flowing into the Black Sea.

The river is still used for transportation of farming produce ; however, it is not as important as it once was due to the construction of roads and railways.

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

He was the first European to visit the region of Benin in Nigeria and named the river located there, the Rio Fermoso.

Battles are usually named after some feature of the battlefield geography, such as the name of a town, forest or river, commonly prefixed " Battle of ...".

Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, a major U. S. river that approximately bisects the state.

Fremont named the river flowing through the valley Carson River in honor of Christopher " Kit " Carson, the mountain man and scout he had hired for his expedition.

A river delta ( originally, the Nile River delta ) is so named because its shape approximates the upper-case letter delta ( the shape is a triangle ).

Dwight developed a keen and enduring interest in exploring outdoors, hunting / fishing, cooking and card playing from an illiterate named Bob Davis who lived by the river.

A war with Peru ( named the Cenepa War, after a river located in the area ) erupted in January – February 1995 in a small, remote region, where the boundary prescribed by the 1942 Rio Protocol was in dispute.

The citadel was named after the river, itself of uncertain etymology.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word gabão — a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo river estuary.

Both the fort and the river were named after the sponsor of the expedition, Prince Rupert of the Rhine.

) Soon after they wed, Heracles and Deianira had to cross a river, and a centaur named Nessus offered to help Deianira across but then attempted to rape her.

He named the new location London and renamed the river as the Thames in anticipation of the change.

Later named after him, the Mackenzie is the second-longest river system in North America.

At a site simply named " The Sinks " in Sinks Canyon State Park, the river flows into a cave in a formation known as the Madison Limestone, and then rises again a half-mile down the canyon in a placid pool.

Two towns were also named after him: Voroshilovgrad in Ukraine ( now changed back to the historical Luhansk ) and Voroshilov in the Soviet Far East ( now renamed Ussuriysk after the Ussuri river ), as well as the General Staff Academy in Moscow.

In 1789 Sir Alexander Mackenzie followed the river named after him to the Arctic Ocean.

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 first Europeans to encounter the river were Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who crossed the river where Albury now stands in 1824: Hume named it the Hume River after his father.