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The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.

The name ''Besokan'' is of [[Olgish language|Olgish]] origin, most likely related to ''Besok'', an ethnonym for to the inhabitants of the Besokan Valley and possibly the lands to its west (largely [[Soskish peoples|Soskish]] and [[Reknayans (ethnicity)|Reknayan]] populations). The term means ‘gift people’ or ‘fee people’, referring either to valuable gifts brought to Belkdondíl by Soskish merchants or to their function as merceraries, notably as hired cavalrists, in the [[Olgish peoples|Olgish]] kingdoms. The ending ''-an'' is a commonly found Olgish nominalizer, or could be a related to the root ''*an-'' ‘to proceed, progress’, referring either to the river itself or demarking the area the Besok came from. The term is found denoting the border, or possibly a country, between Belkondíl and (Old) Seligon in the [[Lonsorigi|earlier Olgish writings]] (c. 700 B.E.B.) and by the end [[Olgish Expansion]] had been established as the general name for the river.

==Course and Hydrology==

==Course and Hydrology==

[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]

[[File:Loire in Amboise.jpg|thumb|The Besokan is shallow for most of its upper course, passing fields of sand and gravel, comparable to the Loire in central France.]]

The [[Olgish peoples|Olgs]], knowing the river as ''Besokan'', were aware of its existence and religious significance at least since their first contact with the [[Soskish peoples|Sosks]] c. 2400 B.E.B., and from its first mention in writing, in the [[Lonsorigi|Elder Lonsorigi]] (c. 700 B.E.B.), it was designated the border between [[Belkondíl]] (the Olgish world) and [[Seligon]] (the foreign east). Even after its decline as a spiritual landmark, the Besokan was recongized as a major body of water and critical resource to the Kernogori and eastern Belkondíl. [[Melvas of Bernab]], writing in the 4th century L.R., lists it as one of the ‘seven great rivers’ in his ''Landmarks of the World'', beside [[Cëlac]], [[Brethan]], [[Ilathw]], [[Kalpa]], [[Muïnulis]], and [[Eargliss]].

The [[Olgish peoples|Olgs]], knowing the river as ''Besokan'', were aware of its existence and religious significance at least since their first contact with the [[Soskish peoples|Sosks]] c. 2400 B.E.B., and from its first mention in writing, in the [[Lonsorigi|Elder Lonsorigi]] (c. 700 B.E.B.), it was designated the border between [[Belkondíl]] (the Olgish world) and [[Seligon]] (the foreign east). Even after its decline as a spiritual landmark, the Besokan was recongized as a major body of water and critical resource to the Kernogori and eastern Belkondíl. [[Melvas of Bernab]], writing in the 4th century L.R., lists it as one of the ‘seven great rivers’ in his ''Landmarks of the World'', beside [[Cëlac]], [[Brethan]], [[Ilathw]], [[Kalpa]], [[Muïnulis]], and [[Eargliss]].