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  2. List of cities and towns on the Euphrates River - Wikipedia

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    Map of Syria. The upper reaches of the Euphrates flow through steep canyons and gorges, southeast across Syria, and through Iraq. From west to east, the Euphrates is in Syria joined by the Sajur, the Balikh and the Khabur. Lake Assad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River formed by the construction of the Tabqa Dam in 1973.

  3. Euphrates - Wikipedia

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    Map (in French) showing the locations of dams and barrages built in the Syro–Turkish part of the Euphrates basin. The Hindiya Barrage on the Iraqi Euphrates, based on plans by British civil engineer William Willcocks and finished in 1913, was the first modern water diversion structure built in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. [36]

  4. Tigris–Euphrates river system - Wikipedia

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    The Tigris–Euphrates Basin is shared between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. [6] [3] [4] [5] [7] Many tributaries of the Tigris river originate in Iran, and the Shatt al-Arab, formed by the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, makes up a portion of the Iran–Iraq border, with Kuwait's Bubiyan Island being part of its delta.

  5. Geography of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more ...

  6. Category:Populated places on the Euphrates River - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 3 December 2022, at 15:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply.

  7. Murat River - Wikipedia

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    The Murat River, also called Eastern Euphrates (Turkish: Murat Nehri, Kurdish: Çemê Miradê, Armenian: Արածանի, romanized: Aratsani), is a major source of the Euphrates River. The Ancient Greeks and Romans used to call the river Arsanias ( Ancient Greek : Ἀρσανίας ).

  8. Hammar Marshes - Wikipedia

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    1994 Map of The Mesopotamian Marshes with draining features. The Hammar Marshes (Arabic: هور الحمار) are a large wetland complex in southeastern Iraq that are part of the Mesopotamian Marshes in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. Historically, the Hammar Marshes extended up to 4,500 km 2 (1,700 sq mi) during seasonal floods. [1]

  9. Category:Bridges over the Euphrates River - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Bridges over the Euphrates River" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.