Ros River

Ros' River
Ros' near Bohuslav
Country Ukraine
Physical characteristics
Main source Ordyntsi, Ukraine
River mouth Kremenchuk Reservoir
Length 346 km (215 mi)
Basin features
Basin size 12,575 km2 (4,855 sq mi)
Ros river on a map from the mid-1600s.

Ros (Ukrainian: Рось; Ros’) is a river in Ukraine, 346 km in length, a right tributary of the Dnieper river. The Ros river finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyschenskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast.

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, the theory referred to as the antinormanist theory of the origin of Rus'.

Cities and towns on the Ros'

Coordinates: 49°38′11″N 31°38′10″E / 49.63639°N 31.63611°E / 49.63639; 31.63611


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