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    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...
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    Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes, used to be the largest wetland ecosystem of Western Eurasia. The unique wetland landscape is home to the Marsh people, who...
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  • Lake Hammar (Arabic: هور الحمّار, Hawr al-Ḥammār) is a saline lake in southeastern part of Iraq within the Hammar Marshes. It has an area of 600–1,350 km2...
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    system. The marshes formerly covered an area of around 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi). The main sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar marshes, were drained...
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    in Iran. The Hawizeh marsh is critical to the survival of the Central and Hammar marshes also make up the Mesopotamian Marshes, because they are a refuge...
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    wetland areas of the Mesopotamian Marshes: Huwaizah Marshes Central Marshes East Hammar Marshes West Hammar Marshes Uruk Archaeological City Ur Archaeological...
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    2003. The western Hammar Marshes and the Qurnah or Central Marshes had become completely desiccated, while the eastern Hawizeh Marshes had dramatically...
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    engaged within the Hammar Marshes of the Tigris–Euphrates river system in Iraq while attempting to reach and cross the Lake Hammar causeway and escape...
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    or Qurna Marshes are a large complex of wetlands in Iraq that, along with the Hawizeh and Hammar marshes, make up the Mesopotamian Marshes of the Tigris–Euphrates...
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  • sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar Marshes were all drained at different times for different reasons. Initial draining of the Central Marshes was...
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    The area is close to the Mesopotamian Marshes(Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs.[citation needed] The topography is...
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    village of Basrah Governorate in Iraq between the Shatt al Arab and Hammar Marshes. It is located at 47.4465n, 30.986e. It has a primary and a Girls school...
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    2003 Invasion of Iraq. The marshes are typically divided into three main sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar Marshes and all three were drained...
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  • 2003 Invasion of Iraq. The marshes are typically divided into three main sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar Marshes and all three were drained...
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    riverine thickets, crop fields and orchards. It was also observed in the Hammar Marshes. In Iran, it was recorded only in a few localities in the south and...
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    geography is dominated by the Hammar Marshes, a subset of the Mesopotamian Marshes, and by the Euphrates River that feeds the marshes. "هذه ذي قار". الموقع الرسمي...
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  • The area is close to the Mesopotamian Marshes(Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs. The area suffered greatly during...
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    Arab and Hamma marshes. The town has a primary school and at least 3 mosques. The area is close to the Mesopotamian Marshes(Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally...
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    The area is close to the Mesopotamian Marshes(Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs. The town has two mosques, a girls...
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    area is also close to the Mesopotamian Marshes(Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs. The town has two mosques and girls...
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    system. The marshes formerly covered an area of around 20,000 km2 (7,700 sq mi). The main sub-marshes, the Hawizeh, Central, and Hammar marshes, were drained...
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    Wadi Khanega. Adjacent to eastern edge of the seasonal lake are the Hammar Marshes. In the 3rd Millennium BC a canal, Id-edin-Eriduga (NUN)ki "the canal...
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    engaged within the Hammar Marshes of the Tigris–Euphrates river system in Iraq while attempting to reach and cross the Lake Hammar causeway and escape...
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    The area is close to the Mesopotamian Marshes (Hammar Marshes), and has traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs. The village has a school. The area...
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    levels, with a remarkable regrowth of the Hammar and Hawizeh Marshes and some recovery of the Central Marshes. Iraq suffers from desertification and soil...
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  • marshlands in the south of Iraq east of the ancient city of Ur in the Hammar Marshes. The similar site of Tell Lehem (Tell el-Leḥem) is located 30 kilometers...
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    the species in borings made in the Hammar Marshes, and Plaziat and Younis found it in other localities of the Hammar Formation; they described it as a...
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    intensified a prior systematic forced relocation of Marsh Arabs and the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. The Gulf...
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  • Name Area (ha) Area (acre) Central Marshes 219,700 543,000 Hammar Marsh 180,000 440,000 Hawizeh Marsh 137,700 340,000 Sawa Lake 500 1,200...
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    marshland, known as Lake Hammar, the result of centuries of flooding and inadequate drainage. Much of it is permanent marsh, but some parts dry out in...
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