The Syr-Daria (in Persan: سيردريا, in Uzbek: Sirdaryo , in Kazakh and Russian: Сырдарья , in Inhabitant of Tajik: Сирдарё ; also retranscribed as Syrdarya ) Fleuve of Central Asia, also known is a like the Jaxartes , of its name in old Greek ὁ Ιαξάρτης.

The river has two sources in the mountain of Tian Shan (the celestial mountain in Mandarin) with the Kirghizstan and in the east of the Ouzbékistan. The river runs out on more than 2212 km in the west and the North-West through the south of the Kazakhstan until the Mer of Aral. Along its road it irrigates the most fertile cotton cultures of all the Central Asias, as well as the towns of Kokand, Khodjent, Kyzyl-Orda and Turkestan.

An important system of channels, built at the 18th century by the Khan S of Kokand, crosses the areas through which the river runs. A massive expansion of the irrigation canals during the Soviet era to irrigate the fields of Coton was the cause of an ecological catastrophe in the area. The river being drained well before reaching the Sea of Aral, it remains little of things of this one, compared to its original size.

The name comes from the Persan and was used a long time in the East but it is more recent in the Western writings: before the 20th century, the river was known under several versions of its old Greek name. It delimited the most septentrional limit of the conquests of Alexandre Large the. Here in 329 front J was founded. - C. the city of Alexandria Eskhate (word for word: “Alexandria more lontaine”) as being a permanent garrison. The city is known today under the name of Khujand.

See too

• List of rivers in the world
• Amou-Daria