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 | | This huge diversion of water in Turkey may have serious implications for other countries, such as Syria and Iraq, that rely on the river. | | | Saddam's loyalists impede invasion Marines cross Euphrates; Basra is declared a target | | | The marshes were drained in the early 1990s to increase Iraqi government control over the Shitte Marsh Arabs living there; restoration of the marshes began in 2003. |
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| | Euphrates - MSN Encarta |
| | Iraq, in turn, has protested the use of Euphrates water associated with Syria’s project, and war between the two was only narrowly averted in 1975. | | | The Euphrates and Tigris rivers join in southeastern Iraq near Al Qurnah to form the Shatt al Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf. | | | Euphrates (Arabic Al Furāt, Turkish Firāt), river in southwest Asia, rising in Turkey and flowing through Syria and Iraq before joining the Tigris to form the Shatt al Arab. |
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| | In Islam, some of the hadiths of Muhammad suggest that the Euphrates will dry up, revealing unknown treasures that will be the cause of strife and war. | | | Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the drainage policy has been reversed, but it remains to be seen whether the marshes will recover. | | | The Euphrates is only navigable by very shallow-draft boats, which can reach as far as the Iraqi city of Hit, located 1,200 miles upstream and which is only 53 meters above sea level. |
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| | Euphrates (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | After the Flood, a new river was given this same name, possibly by Noah or his family. | | | In the ancient history of Assyria, and Babylon, and Egypt many events are recorded in which mention is made of the "great river." Just as the Nile represented in prophecy the power of Egypt, so the Euphrates represented the Assyrian power (Isa. | | | [The post-Flood river] is first mentioned in connection with the covenant which God entered into with Abraham (15:18), when he promised to his descendants the land from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates (compare Deut. |
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| | Voltayre's ENCYCLOPEDIA XENOBIOLOGICA: Euphrates |
| | Stations showed that no life forms were present and the planet was worthless. | | | The planet almost self-destructed in 2258 when the Custodian of the Great Machine became terminally ill. Once thought worthless, Euphrates is the location for the | | | Built by an unknown race, the Great Machine is a heavily fortified high-tech warehouse. |
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