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Gozan
Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
or Go´zan, a river of Media, to the country watered by which Tiglathpileser first, and after wards Shalmaneser, transported the captive Israelites (; ). It is now almost universally admitted that the Gozan is no other than the present Ozan, or, with the prefix, Kizzil-Ozan (Golden River), which is the principal river of that part of Persia that answers to the ancient Media. This river rises eight or nine miles south-west of Sennah, in Kurdistan. It runs along the north-west frontier of Iraq, and passes under the Kafulan Koh, or, Mountain of Tigris, where it is met by the Karanku. These two rivers combined force a passage through the great range of Caucasan, and, during their course, form a junction with the Sharood. The collective waters, under the designation of Sifeed Rood or White River, so named from the foam occasioned by the rapidity of its current, flow in a meandering course through Ghilan to the Caspian Sea.
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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Gozan'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/kbe/g/gozan.html.
