Yeşilırmak River
Yeşilırmak (literally "green river") is a Turkish place name that may refer to several things: *Yeşilırmak (river), a river in northern Turkey *Elif Jale Yeşilırmak (born 1986), Turkish female wrestler of Russian origin *Limnitis Limnitis ( el, Λιμνίτης; tr, Yeşilırmak) is a coastal village in the Tylliria region of north-western Cyprus. The upper parts of the village are located 20 metres above sea level, but Limnitis extends all the way down to the beach ...

Yeşilırmak (river)
The Yeşilırmak ( tr, Yeşilırmak 'Green River'; classical grc, Ἶρις, Iris) is a river in northern Turkey. From its source northeast of Sivas, it flows past Tokat and Amasya, crosses the Pontic Mountains and the Çarşamba Plain, reaching the Black Sea east of Samsun after . Its tributaries include the Çekerek (ancient Scylax) and the Kelkit (ancient Lycus). It was mentioned by Menippus of Pergamon in the 1st century BC. Strabo's ''Geographica'' describes it as flowing through Comana Pontica, the plain of Dazimonitis (Kaşova) (), and Gaziura (probably modern Turhal) before receiving the waters () of the Scylax, then flowing through Amaseia (Amasya) before reaching the valley of Phanaroea. Starting with Dionysius Periegetes, in his ''Periegesis of the World'', the Iris is often confused with the Thermodon (modern Terme Terme (formerly spelled ''Termeh''; Ancient Greek: Thèrmae, Θέρμαι) is the seat of Terme District, Samsun Province, Turkey. Terme is loca ...
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Elif Jale Yeşilırmak
Elif Jale Yeşilırmak, née Yulia Guramievna Rekvava (russian: Юлия Гурамиевна Реквава), (born July 30, 1986 in Smolensk, Russia) is a Russian- Turkish female wrestler. She is the first woman wrestler to represent Turkey at the Olympics. She is a member of Trakya Birlikspor. Born on July 30, 1986 in Russia, Yulia Rekvava won the bronze medal for her native country in the 59 kg division at the 2009 European Wrestling Championships held in Vilnius, Lithuania. She later moved from Sweden to Turkey, and was naturalized shortly before the 2011 World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul converting to Islam and taking the Turkish name Elif Jale Yeşilırmak. Yeşilırmak became silver medalist in the 67 kg division at the Golden Grand Prix held in February 2012 at Klippan, Sweden. She won the bronze medal in the 63 kg division at the 2012 European Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. She became so the second woman wrestler from Tu ...
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