The Shatt al-Arab (Arabic: شط العرب, lit. 'River of the Arabs'; Persian: اروندرود, romanized: Arvand Rud, lit. 'Swift River') is a river about 200 kilometres...
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1974–1975 Shatt al-Arab conflict consisted of armed cross-border clashes between Iran and Iraq. It was a major escalation of the Shatt al-Arab dispute,...
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The Shatt al-Arab dispute was a territorial dispute that took place in the Shatt al-Arab region from 1936 until 1975. The Shatt al-Arab was considered...
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Shatt Al-Arab District (Arabic: شط العرب) is a district of Basra Governorate, Iraq. Its seat is the City of Al-Harita (Arabic: الهارثة). v t e...
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Tigris–Euphrates river system (redirect from Shatt al-Arab basin)
south-easterly direction through the central plain and combine at Al-Qurnah to form the Shatt al-Arab and discharge into the Persian Gulf. The rivers and their...
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Saddam Hussein (redirect from Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti)
the Shatt al-Arab, which had been under Iranian control. Saddam Hussein aimed to secure Iraq's territorial claims, particularly regarding the Shatt al-Arab...
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Al-Fāw (Arabic: ٱلْفَاو; sometimes transliterated as Fao) is a port town on Al-Faw Peninsula in Iraq near the Shatt al-Arab and the Persian Gulf. The...
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Iran–Iraq War (section Operation Tariq al-Quds)
abrogated the 1937 treaty over the Shatt al-Arab and Iranian ships stopped paying tolls to Iraq when they used the Shatt al-Arab. The Shah argued that the 1937...
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pay navigation fees to Iraq while sailing through a stretch of the Shatt al-Arab spanning several kilometres. On 22 September, Iraqi aircraft pre-emptively...
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December 1975. The territorial disputes in question concerned Iraq's Shatt al-Arab and Iran's Khuzestan Province, and Iraq had wished to negotiate to end...
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599 km (994 mi) from the tripoint with Turkey in the north down to the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) waterway and out to the Persian Gulf in...
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part of a delta for the Shatt al-Arab (Arvand Rud) river, formed by the confluence of the major Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The al-Faw peninsula borders...
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Persian Gulf (redirect from Gulf Arab/Arabic)
connected to the Gulf of Oman in the east by the Strait of Hormuz. The Shatt al-Arab river delta forms the northwest shoreline. The Persian Gulf has many...
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The Shatt Al-Arab Corniche, or Basra Corniche, is one of the most important tourist attractions in Iraq. It consists of a street and a promenade overlooking...
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the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab in Iraq, which empties into the Persian Gulf. The Euphrates is the fifteenth-longest...
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Basra Governorate (redirect from Al Basrah province)
district. Other districts of Basra include Al-Qurna, Al-Zubair, Al-Midaina, Shatt Al-Arab, Abu Al-Khaseeb and Al-Faw located on the Persian Gulf. It is the...
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Hawizeh Marshes. Finally, the Tigris joins the Euphrates near al-Qurnah to form the Shatt-al-Arab. According to Pliny and other ancient historians, the Euphrates...
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The Arab–Israeli conflict is the phenomenon involving political tension, military conflicts, and other disputes between various Arab countries and Israel...
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Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (category Recipients of the Order of Al-Hussein bin Ali)
the Shatt al-Arab. On 19 April 1969, the Shah abrogated the treaty, and as a result Iran ceased paying tolls to Iraq when its ships used the Shatt al-Arab...
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Shatt Al-Arab University College is a private Iraqi university established in 1993 in Basrah in the south of Iraq. Faculty of Computer Science Faculty...
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Shatt Al-Arab Sport Club (Arabic: نادي شط العرب الرياضي), is an Iraqi football team based in Shatt Al-Arab District, Basra, that plays in Iraqi Second...
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"Tigris Euphrates Delta-Coastal". Safaa, Al-Asadi; Abdulzahra, Alhello (2019). "General assessment of Shatt Al-Arab River, Iraq" (PDF). International Journal...
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Upper Mesopotamia (redirect from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia)
Mesopotamia into almost an island, as they are joined together at the Shatt al-Arab in the Basra Governorate of Iraq, and their sources in eastern Turkey...
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the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to form the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Local folklore holds Qurnah to have been the original site...
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Shatt may refer to: the Shatt people the Shatt language the Shatt al-Arab river, which empties into the Persian Gulf Chott This disambiguation page lists...
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Emirate of Muhammara (section 18th-19th century: The rule of the Al Bu Nasir, Princes of Fallahiyah)
of Arab tribes across the Shatt al Arab preserved the Arab identity of the eastern bank of the Shatt. Thus Richard Frye maintains that the Arabs of Khuzistan...
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Khuzestan Plain borders Mesopotamia and is separated from it by the Shatt al-Arab (known as Arvand Rud in Iran) river. In the 19th and early 20th centuries...
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Khorramshahr (redirect from Al-Mohammerah)
(6.2 mi) north of Abadan. The city extends to the right bank of the Shatt Al Arab waterway near its confluence with the Haffar arm of the Karun river...
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