The Murat River , also called Eastern Euphrates ( Turkish : Murat Nehri , Kurdish : Çemê Miradê , Armenian : Արածանի , romanized : Aratsani ), is a major source of the Euphrates River. The Ancient Greeks and Romans used to call the river Arsanias ( Ancient Greek : Ἀρσανίας ). It originates near Mount Ararat north of Lake Van , in Eastern Turkey, and flows westward for 722 km (449 mi) through mountainous terrain. Before the construction of the Keban Dam , the Murat River joined the Karasu River or Western Euphrates 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the dam site and 13 km (8.1 mi) north of the town of Keban .
4-541: In Muş Province , the river is interrupted near Toklu by the Alpaslan-1 Dam , which was completed in 2009. The Alpaslan-2 Dam was completed in 2021 and is located downstream of Alpaslan-1. The river merges into the reservoir of the Keban Dam , at one time Turkey's largest dam, which was completed in 1974 and provides electrical power. In Bingöl and Elazığ provinces, Kalehan Energy has four dams planned for
8-647: The addition of the toponymic suffix -iya and Greek Arsanias ) under the influence of many other Armenian toponyms beginning with Ara- . The main source of the Murat River starts in the Diyadin district of Ağrı . The Kocasu River , which originates in the Bingöl Mountains , flows into the Murat River by the village of Sarıpınar village in the Bulanık district after taking the waters coming from
12-901: The river: from upstream to downstream, the Upper Kaleköy Dam , Lower Kaleköy Dam , Beyhan I Dam , and Beyhan II Dam . The Beyhan I and Upper Kaleköy dams are already completed. Once completed, all four dams will have a combined installed capacity of 1,855 MW. The present name is usually connected with the Turkish given name Murat or the word from which that name derives, murat ' purpose, intention, desire ' . But this may be folk etymology, so Hrach Martirosyan tentatively proposes derivation from Old Armenian [[[wikt:մօր#Etymology_2|mōrat]]] Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch ( help ) , [[[wikt:մօր#Etymology_2|murat]]] Error: {{Lang}}: Non-latn text/Latn script subtag mismatch ( help ) ' mud, marsh ' . The river
16-654: Was called Arșania in sources of the Neo-Assyrian Empire , and Arsanias in Classical Greek and Roman sources. Those forms may be derived from an earlier form of Armenian Արածանի Aratsani , which Armen Petrosyan derives from an Armenian descendant of the Proto-Indo-European root * h₂erǵ ' white, bright ' . Armenian Aratsani may have developed from an earlier form * Artsani (whence Akkadian Arșania with
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