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Jihun
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English
Proper noun
The Ceyhan river.
en Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed. Anazarbus 1911 Hugh Chisholm Anazarbus...an ancient Cilician city, situated in the Aleian plain about 10 m. W. of the main stream of the Pyramus (Jihun)
en Quatrains of Omar Khayyám 1883 Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward Henry Whinfield No. 92 60 Skies like a zone our weary lives enclose, / And from our tear-stained eyes a Jihun flows; / Hell is a fire enkindled of our griefs; / Heaven but a moment's peace, stolen from our woes.