Ros (river)

The Ros (Ukrainian: Рось) is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper. The Ros finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyshche Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast. It is 346 kilometres (215 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 12,600 square kilometres (4,900 sq mi).[1] Larger settlements on the river are Bila Tserkva, Bohuslav, and Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi.[2][3][4]

Ros
The Ros near Sukholisy
Location
CountryUkraine
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationOrdyntsi, Ukraine
MouthDnieper
 • location
Kremenchuk Reservoir
 • coordinates
49°38′11″N 31°38′10″E
Length346 km (215 mi)
Basin size12,600 km2 (4,900 sq mi)
Basin features
ProgressionDnieper→ Dnieper–Bug estuary→ Black Sea
Tributaries 
 • leftRosava
Ros river on a map from the mid-1600s.

Some historians have suggested the possibility that the name of the Kievan Rus', the old East Slavic state, may have originated from the name of the Ros river, part of the anti-Normanist theories of the origin of the Rus'.

Cities and towns on the Ros'

References
  1. Рось, Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  2. Izsák Tibor (2007). Ukrajna természeti földrajza (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. p. 95. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  3. "NÉVJEGYZÉK-SZÓTÁR az UKRAJNA TERMÉSZETI FÖLDRAJZA tantárgyhoz" (pdf) (in Hungarian). II. Rákóczi Ferenc Kárpátaljai Magyar Főiskola. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  4. "Ros River". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
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