Editing Guadalquivir (section)

== Name ==

The modern name of Guadalquivir comes from the [[Arabic language|Arabic]] ''al-[[wādī]] l-kabīr'' ({{lang|ar|اَلْوَادِي&nbsp;الْكَبِيرْ}}), meaning "the great river".<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGbnCmzDJAIC&pg=PA237|title=Materiales para el estudio de la toponimia hispanoárabe: nómina fluvial|volume=1|first=Elías|last=Terés Sádaba|pages=236–237|location=Madrid|year=1986|publisher=[[Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas]]. Instituto de Filología|isbn=84-00-06277-9|quote=El ''Glossarium'' editado por Seybold recoge ''wādī'' y ''wād'' bajo las acepciones of 'amnis', 'flumen' 'flubius', 'riuus' [...] Guadalquivir: ''al-Wādī-l-kabīr'' 'el Río grande'.}}</ref><ref name="JayyusiMarín1992">{{cite book|author=Rafael Valencia|editor=Salma Khadra Jayyusi |editor2=Manuela Marín|title=The Legacy of Muslim Spain|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbfORLWv1HkC&pg=PA136|year=1992|publisher=Brill|isbn=90-04-09599-3|page=136|chapter=Islamic Seville: Its Political, Social and Cultural History}}</ref><ref name="NunStewart2014">{{cite book|author=Eric Ziolkowski|editor1=Jon Stewart |editor2=Katalin Nun|title=Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuRIBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA280|volume=16|date=28 October 2014|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-4724-4136-2|page=280|chapter=Kierkegaard's Subterranean Fluvial Pseudonymity}}</ref>

There were a variety of names for the Guadalquivir in Classical and pre-Classical times. According to [[Titus Livius]] (Livy), ''The History of Rome'', Book 28, the native people of [[Tartessians]] or [[Turdetani]]ans called the river by two names: ''Certis'' ''(Kertis)'' and ''Rherkēs'' ({{lang|grc|Ῥέρκης}}).<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=baetis-geo |author=Smith, William |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |chapter=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BAETIS |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Greek geographers sometimes called it "the river of [[Tartessos]]", after the city of that name. The Romans called it by the name {{lang|la|Baetis}} (which was the basis for name of the province of [[Hispania Baetica]]).