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    The Yarmuk River (Arabic: نهر اليرموك, romanized: Nahr al-Yarmūk, Hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְמוּךְ‎, romanized: Nəhar hayYarmūḵ; Greek: Ἱερομύκης, Hieromýkēs;...
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    The Battle of the Yarmuk (also spelled Yarmouk) was a major battle between the army of the Byzantine Empire and the Arab Muslim forces of the Rashidun...
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  • Yarmouk (redirect from Yarmuk)
    the free dictionary. The Yarmouk River (or Yarmuk River) is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. Yarmouk or Yarmuk may also refer to: Battle of Yarmouk...
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  • eastwards to the Yarmuk River where the borders of Israel, Jordan and Syria converge. The issue of water sharing from the Jordan–Yarmuk system turned out...
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  • Governorate, located west of Daraa. It is situated on the slopes north of the Yarmuk River. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics, Kuwaya had a population...
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    on the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea but is otherwise landlocked. The Yarmuk River, an eastern tributary of the Jordan, forms part of the boundary between...
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  • Ruqqad (category Rivers of Syria)
    of Yarmuk between the Byzantines and Muslims in 636 took place in an area bordered by Wadi ar-Raqqad, close to its junction with the Yarmuk River. The...
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  • in the 2004 census. It is situated 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) north of the Yarmuk River (border of Syria and Jordan) and 22 kilometers (14 mi) south of Tafas...
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  • though it is also held that it may have been during the Battle of the Yarmuk in 636. According to the historian al-Ya'qubi (d. 898), Ikrima was married...
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  • deep gorge where the streams meet. It is near the approaches to the Yarmuk river, which represents the border between Syria and Jordan. In 1596 Hit appeared...
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    along the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee and reaching south to the Yarmuk River, in what is now called the Golan Heights. This location places it on...
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    territories of the Golan plateau and the bishopric of Pella south of the Yarmuk River), with its capital in Scythopolis (Bet Shean). The province experienced...
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  • Thumbnail for Headwater Diversion Plan (Jordan River)
    construction of a dam in the Kingdom of Jordan (the Mukheiba dam on the Yarmuk River) was designed to hold 200 million cubic metres of water. Work on the...
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    Levant to make use of pottery. The Yarmukian derives its name from the Yarmuk River, which flows near its type site of Sha'ar Hagolan at the foot of the...
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  • January 2022. Maḥmūd Shākir (1983). Maydan màrakat al-Yarmuk (Islamic Empire -- History, Yarmūk river, Battle of, 639) (in Arabic). Dār al-Ḥarmīn. p. 37...
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  • flow south as the Jordan River. Just south of Tiberias, the Yarmuk River joins the Jordan River. In total, the Jordan River flows for roughly 350 km,...
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    became known as the Johnston Plan. In this, water from the Jordan River and Yarmuk River would be divided between Israel (40%), Jordan (45%) and Syria and...
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    name Afikim means "riverbeds", and refers to the Jordan River and its tributary, the Yarmuk River, and is also taken from the Bible, Ezekiel 34:13: "I will...
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    website on the Hejaz railway Archived 4 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine Yarmuk River railway bridges, 1933 aerial photographs. Aerial Photographic Archive...
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    importance. Politically contested watersheds include the Tigris–Euphrates river system which drains to the south-east through Iraq into the Persian Gulf...
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    Amatha; Arabic: الحمة السورية al-Hamma) is a hot springs site in the Yarmuk River valley, located in an area under Israeli control, near the Golan Heights...
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    border. The lowest point is at the Yarmuk River, which sits at 200 m below sea-level at its confluence with the Jordan River. The buffer zone is currently...
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    Mount Hermon, the 35th in the south from the B'nat Ya'acov bridge to the Yarmuk River border with Jordan, and the 42nd in reserve, earmarked for a theater-level...
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    Bashar al-Assad launched the Wahdah Dam project at a ceremony on the Yarmuk River in February 2004. Jordan has sought to remain at peace with all of its...
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    defeated Byzantines troops from the Battle of the Yarmuk, a major battle fought on the banks of the Yarmuk River north of Fahl, had gathered. The Muslim force...
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    Khurbet el 'Arayis, to the east of Kefar Haruv, on the north bank of the Yarmuk River. Now a destroyed village in the southern Golan Heights, 2 kilometers...
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    over "utilization of such of the waters of the River Jordan and its basin including the Yarmuk River and all other affluents" and a right to "erect a...
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    Gideon. It was located 14 km south of Tiberias, on the north bank of the Yarmuk River, on the border between Mandatory Palestine and Transjordan. In 1838 Al-Dalhamiyya...
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  • to occupy the railway bridges at Jisr Majami, across the Jordan and Yarmuk Rivers. The capture of Jenin on the southern edge of the Esdraelon Plain, also...
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  • It is located in the southern Golan Heights, near the point where the Yarmuk River and wadi Ruqqad meet. The winemaker is Uri Hetz. The winery features...
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