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Major rivers like the Arvand, Aras, Zayandeh, Sefid and Atrak were few and far between in Persia. With the growth of urban settlements during the ages, locally dug deep wells (up to 100 meters deep) could no longer keep up with the demand, leading to the systematic digging of a specialized network of canals known as Qanat .
Karun River lies between the Susa plain, the location of the ancient cultures dating back to the fifth millennium BC and, to the south, the newly discovered ancient culture of the Zohreh River plain from the same period. The principal ancient site being excavated near the Zohreh River is Tol-e Chega Sofla, which has many parallels with Susa. [8]
The Karun-3 dam, one of the many large power dams on the Karun River. Arvand Rud. Haffar, originally an artificial channel now forming the estuary of the Karun; Karun River Marun River; Dez River. Bakhtiari River; Koohrang; Tigris (Iraq) Karkheh River. Seimareh River; Chankula River; Sirwan River (Diyala River) Alwand River; Little Zab
The Sepid-Rud (Persian: سفیدرود, lit. 'white river', Gilaki: سپیده رود) (also known as Sefid-Rud) is a river, approximately 670 kilometres (416 mi) long, rising in the Alborz mountain range of northwestern Iran and flowing generally northeast to empty into the Caspian Sea at Rasht.
This is a list of conflicts in the Near East arranged chronologically from the epipaleolithic until the end of the late modern period (c. 20,000 years Before Present – c. AD 1945). The Near East is generally associated with Anatolia , the Levant , Mesopotamia , Persia , Egypt , the Arabian Peninsula , and the Caucasus .
The Choaspes River (Iran) or Karkheh or Karkhen (Persian: کرخه) (perhaps the river known as the Gihon Ancient Greek: Γεῶν Book of Genesis 2:13 —one of the four Rivers of Paradise in the of Garden of Eden/Paradise in the Bible and as the river Choaspes Ancient Greek: Χοάσπης [1] in ancient times; also called Eulæus, in Ancient Greek: Εὔλαιος or Εὐλαῖος ...
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.
The Shah argued that the 1937 treaty was unfair to Iran because almost all river borders around the world ran along the thalweg, and because most of the ships that used the Shatt al-Arab were Iranian. [18] Iraq threatened war over the Iranian move, but on 24 April 1969, an Iranian tanker escorted by Iranian warships (Joint Operation Arvand ...