Great Gulf

The Great Gulf was a large gulf that had once divided Beleriand and the other northern parts of Middle-earth from the unknown south during the First Age.The Atlas of Middle-earth The First Age, The Elder Days, "First Age of Arda"
The Great Gulf was created after the destruction of the Two Lamps by Melkor and in the following war, when the Valar widened the great sea Belegaer. The Gulf started at the southern end of Beleriand, and from there flowed east all the way to where later was south Gondor, where a narrow strip of land separated it from the Sea of Helcar.
North of the Great Gulf lay the lands of Beleriand and Eriador, south of it lay those lands which later would be known as Far Harad.
After the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age, the Great Gulf drained the Sea of Helcar and effectively disappeared itself, because much of Middle-earth was drowned. Only its eastern end remained, and became known as the Bay of Belfalas.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Groot Golf
Albanian 	Gjiri e Madhe
Amharic 	ታላቁ ባሕር ሥላጤ
Arabic 	خليج الكبير
Armenian 	Մեծ Ծոց
Assamese 	মহান উপসাগৰ
Asturian 	Gran Golfu
Azerbaijani 	Böyük Körfəzi
Basque 	Golkoa Handia
Belarusian Cyrillic	Вяліка Заліў
Bengali 	গ্রেট উপসাগর
Bosnian 	Velika Zaliv
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Велико Залив
Cambodian 	ឈូងសមុទ្រដ៏អស្ចារ្យ
Catalan 	Gran Golf
Cebuano 	Gran Gulpo
Chinese 	大海湾
Croatian 	Velika zaljev
Czech 	Velká záliv
Danish 	Stor Golf
Dari 	خلیج بزرگ
Dutch 	Groot Golf
Estonian 	Suur laht
Finnish 	Suuri lahti
French 	Grande Golfe
Frisian 	Grat Golf (Northern) Grut-Golf (Western)
Friulian 	Grandi Golf
Georgian 	დიდი ყურე
German 	Große Golf
Greek 	Μεγάλη Κόλπος
Hindi 	ग्रेट खाड़ी
Hungarian 	Nagy Öböl
Icelandic 	Stóra Flói
Irish Gaelic 	Murascaill Mhór
Italian 	Gran Golfo
Japanese 	グレート湾
Kannada 	ಗ್ರೇಟ್ ಗಲ್ಫ್
Kazakh 	Ұлы Шығанағы (Cyrillic) Ulı Şığanağı (Latin)
Korean 	그레이트 걸프
Kurdish 	Kendava Mezin (Kurmanji) (Sorani) کەنداوی مەزن
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Улуу булуңу
Latvian 	Liel līcis
Lithuanian 	Didžioji įlanka
Luxembourgish 	Grouss Golf
Macedonian Cyrillic	Велика Залив
Maithili 	ग्रेट खाड़ी
Malagasy 	Golfa Lehibe
Malayalam 	ഗ്രേറ്റ് ഉൾക്കടൽ
Maltese 	Golf il-Kbir
Marathi 	ग्रेट आखात
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Их булан
Nepalese 	ग्रेट खाडी
Norwegian 	Storgolfen
Occitan 	Grand Golf
Pashto 	ستر خليج
Persian 	خلیج بزرگ
Polish 	Wielka Zatoka
Portuguese 	Grã Golfo
Punjabi 	ਗ੍ਰੇਟ ਖਾੜੀ
Romanian 	Marea Golful
Russian 	Велико Залив
Sanskrit 	ग्रेट् खाड़ी
Sardinian 	Golfu Manna
Scottish Gaelic 	Mhòr Camas
Serbian 	Велика Залив (Cyrillic) Velika Zaliv (Latin)
Sicilian 	Gran Gulfu
Sinhalese 	මහා ගල්ෆ්
Slovak 	Veľká záliv
Slovenian 	Velika zaliv
Somali 	Khaliijka Weyn
Spanish 	Gran Golfo
Swahili 	Ghuba Kubwa
Swedish 	Storgolfen
Tajik Cyrillic 	Халиҷ Кабир
Tamil 	பெரிய வளைகுடா
Tatar 	Бөек Култыгы
Telugu 	గ్రేట్ గల్ఫ్
Thai 	อ่าวใหญ่
Turkish 	Büyük Körfezi
Turkmen 	Uly Aýlag
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Велика Затока
Urdu 	عظیم خلیج
Uzbek 	Буюк Қўлтиғи (Cyrillic) Buyuk Qoʻltigʻi (Latin)
Venetian 	Gran Golfo
Vietnamese 	Đại Vịnh
Welsh 	Gwlff Fawr
Yiddish 	גרויס איינגאס
==References==
Category:Bodies of water