The Berezan is a
Ukrainian river flowing into the
Berezan Estuary of the
Black Sea. The river is 49 km long, the catchment area is 890 km
2. Slope 1.5 m / km. The
trapezoidal river valley is 2 km wide. The
channel is meandering, in the upper reaches 5 m wide, 1.2–1.5 m deep. In the summer it partially dries up. It is used for
irrigation.
The river originates from the village of
Stepove and flows through the territory of
Voznesensk and
Mykolaiv Raions of
Mykolaiv Oblast.
In 1974, near the village of Yablonya, in the Berezan River basin, burial 11 of mound 11 was investigated, which belongs to the
Sivashovka-type monuments of the 2nd half of the 7th century - early 8th century.
Etymology
Vladimir Nikonov (1904 - 1988) indicates that the name may be derived from the
Avestan
Avestan (), or historically Zend, is an umbrella term for two Old Iranian languages: Old Avestan (spoken in the 2nd millennium BCE) and Younger Avestan (spoken in the 1st millennium BCE). They are known only from their conjoined use as the scrip ...
''berezant'', Scythian ''bresant'', which means high.
[Yanko M.T. - K .: Znannya, 1998. - P. 39]
History
In ancient times, the river was in
Sarmatia and was named Sagaris. The Beresan District of
Black Sea German
The Black Sea Germans (german: Schwarzmeerdeutsche; russian: черноморские немцы; uk, чорноморські німці) are ethnic Germans who left their homelands (starting in the late-18th century, but mainly in the ea ...
colonists was located on the Berezan in the 19th century, when the area was known as South Russia. From 1809 to 1820, eleven German-Russian "mother colonies" were founded in the Beresan Valley: seven Catholic (
Karlsruhe,
Katharinental,
Landau,
München
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,
Rastadt
Rastatt () is a town with a Baroque core, District of Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in the Upper Rhine Plain on the Murg river, above its junction with the Rhine and has a population of around 50,000 (2011). Rastatt was an ...
,
Speyer, and
Sulz) and four Lutheran (
Johannestal,
Rohrbach,
Waterloo
Waterloo most commonly refers to:
* Battle of Waterloo, a battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat
* Waterloo, Belgium, where the battle took place.
Waterloo may also refer to:
Other places
Antarctica
*King George Island (S ...
, and
Worms).
See also
*
Berezan Estuary
*
Berezan Island
Berezan (Cyrillic: Береза́нь; Ancient Greek: Borysthenes; former tr, Pirezin) is an island in the Black Sea at the entrance of the Dnieper-Bug Estuary, Ochakiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. Located 8 kilometers from the city of Och ...
*
Berezan' Runestone
Further reading
* Resources of surface waters of the USSR. Description of rivers and lakes and calculations of the main characteristics of their regime. - T. 6. Ukraine and Moldova. Issue 1. Western Ukraine and Moldova (excluding the Dniester basin). - L., Gidrometeoizdat, 1978. - 260-263 p.
References
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External links
German foundations on the Beresan
Tributaries of the Black Sea
Rivers of Mykolaiv Oblast