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Panj (river) vs. Parni

The Panj (Пяндж; رودخانه پنج; "River Five") (Панҷ, پنج; "Five"), traditionally known as the Ochus River and also known as Pyandzh (derived from its Slavic word ("Pyandz"), is a river in Afghanistan and Tajikistan and is a tributary of the Amu Darya. The river is long and has a basin area of., Great Soviet Encyclopedia It forms a considerable part of the Afghanistan–Tajikistan border. The river is formed by the confluence of the Pamir River and the Wakhan River near the village of Qalʿa-ye Panja (Qalʽeh-ye Panjeh). From there, it flows westwards, marking part of the border of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. After passing the city of Khorugh, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region of Tajikistan it receives water from one of its main tributaries, the Bartang River. It then turns towards the southwest, before joining the river Vakhsh and forming the greatest river of Central Asia, the Amu Darya. The Panj played an important role during Soviet times, and was a strategic river during the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan in the 1980s. The Parni (Πάρνοι, Parnoi), Aparni (Ἄπαρνοι, Aparnoi) or Parnians were an East Iranian people who lived around the Ochus (Ὧχος Okhos) (Tejen) River, southeast of the Caspian Sea.