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.

It was founded as a Corinthian colony in the 7th century BC and was situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos ( or Aratthus ), in the midst of a fertile wooded plain.

900 km ; traditional trade carried on by means of shallow-draft dugouts ; Oubangui is the most important river, navigable all year to craft drawing 0. 6 m or less ; 282 km navigable to craft drawing as much as 1. 8 m.

This was to be achieved by draining the Fucine lake, which would have the added benefit of making the nearby river navigable year-round.

The river contains no dams and is easily navigable by even the smallest of vessels.

It is El Salvador's only navigable river, it and its tributaries drain about half the country.

460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers ; 3, 300 km navigable by native craft

The locks make the river navigable, even for large cargo vessels ( 88 m long ).

As overland travel was relatively difficult, its position on the upper navigable reaches of the river helped it to grow by increasing trade.

* Inland waterway, a body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and slow enough for a vessel to pass.

Each lock has a navigable passage next to it through the weir, which is opened during periods of high river flow, when there is too much water for the lock.

The Madeira river rises more than 15 m ( 50 ft ) during the rainy season, and ocean vessels may ascend it to the Falls of San Antonio, near Porto Velho, Brazil, above its mouth ; but in the dry months, from June to November, it is only navigable for the same distance for craft drawing about 2 m ( from 5 to 6 feet ) of water.

The Meuse is navigable over a substantial part of its total length: In the Netherlands and Belgium, the river is part of the major inland navigation infrastructure, connecting the Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Antwerp port areas to the industrial areas upstream: Hertogenbosch, Venlo, Maastricht, Liège, Namur.

The river is navigable throughout and is part of the Volga – Baltic Waterway and White Sea – Baltic Canal.

The third longest river, the Daedong River, flows through Pyeongyang and is navigable for 245 of its 397 km.

From the Amazon the Napo is navigable for river craft up to its Curaray branch, a distance of about 216 miles ( 350 km ), and perhaps a bit further ; thence, by painful canoe navigation, its upper waters may be ascended as far as Santa Rosa, the usual point of embarkation for any venturesome traveller who descends from the Quito tableland.

One of the longest is the Río Tuira which flows into the Golfo de San Miguel and is the nation's only river navigable by larger vessels.

It is navigable for river vessels along its entire Romanian course and for seagoing ships as far as the port of Brăila.

This section downstream of the Seaway is not a continuous canal, but rather it consists of several stretches of navigable channels within the river, a number of locks, as well as canals along the banks of the St. Lawrence River to bypass several rapids and dams along the way.

The Rio Guadalquivir is one of the most significant rivers in Spain because it irrigates a fertile valley, thus creating a rich agricultural area, and because it is navigable inland, making Seville the only inland river port for ocean-going traffic in Spain.

Trade was boosted for a while but by the 20th century silting had resulted in the river only being navigable as far as Rome itself.

The river is navigable for 135 miles above its mouth.

The river is heavily silted and is navigable by seagoing craft of shallow draft as far as Kompong Cham in Cambodia.

Thorfinn and Snorri, with Freydis ( plus possibly Bjarni ), sail down the east coast with 40 men or more and establish a camp on the shore of a seaside lake, protected by barrier islands and connected to the open ocean by a river which is navigable by ships only at high tide.