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    The Amu Darya /ˈɑːmuː ˈdɑːr.jə/, also called the Amu, the Amo, and historically the Oxus /ˈɒksəs/ (Latin: Ōxus; Greek: Ὦξος, Ôxos), is a major river in...
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    main rivers in the endorheic basin of the Aral Sea, the other being the Amu Darya (Jayhun, also known by its classical name the Oxus). In the Soviet era...
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    Aral Sea (redirect from Daryâ-ye Khârazm)
    World Register as a resource to study the environmental tragedy. The Amu Darya river flowed into the Caspian Sea via the Uzboy Channel until the Holocene...
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    The Amu Darya sturgeon or false shovelnose sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni) is a critically endangered species of fish in the family Acipenseridae...
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    or Xârazm) or Chorasmia (/kəˈræzmiə/) is a large oasis region on the Amu Darya river delta in western Central Asia, bordered on the north by the (former)...
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    Transoxiana (category Amu Darya)
    known. Geographically, it is the region between the rivers Amu Darya to its south and the Syr Darya to its north. The region of Transoxiana was one of the...
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    The dwarf sturgeon, little shovelnose sturgeon, or small Amu-Darya shovelnose sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni) is a species of fish in the family...
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    Qosh Tepa Canal (category Amu Darya)
    a canal being built in northern Afghanistan to divert water from the Amu Darya. The main canal is expected to be 285 km long and the overall initiative...
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  • Valley is drained by the Kyzyl-Suu towards the Amu Darya, which discharges into the South Aral Sea. Amu Darya Vakhsh/Kyzyl-Suu Kök-Suu Much of northeastern...
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    Caspian Sea (redirect from Daryā-i Xazar)
    in from the north, and the Kura River from the west. In the past, the Amu Darya (Oxus) of Central Asia in the east often changed course to empty into...
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    civilization in Central Asia based in the area south of the Oxus River (modern Amu Darya) and north of the mountains of the Hindu Kush, an area within the north...
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    distributary of the Amu Darya River, which continued on to the Caspian Sea. Today, its main source of water is a canal from the Amu Darya but also the runoff...
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    the south, the Paropamyz Plateau, the Koytendag Range to the east, the Amu Darya Valley, and the Caspian Sea to the west. Turkmenistan includes three tectonic...
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    and Kashan rivers; in the Amu Darya basin as far the Aral Sea and along the entire coast of the Aral Sea; along the Syr-Darya to the Fergana Valley as...
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    century, they settled in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya and in the (former) delta of Amu Darya on the southern shore of the Aral Sea. The name Karakalpak...
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  • Peach-Pit Amu Darya, a river in central Asia Amu (pharaoh) Ammu (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title AMU. If an...
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    the Soviet Union decided that the two rivers feeding it, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, would be diverted in order to irrigate cotton and food crops...
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    Türkmenabat is located at an altitude of 187 m (614 ft) on the banks of the Amu Darya River, near the border with Uzbekistan. Türkmenabat is at the center of...
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  • based on the mention of the Sakā tigraxaudā as living between the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, where Arrian also located the Massagetae. The scholar Marek...
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  • 1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon)...
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    "land of Cush" with Hindu Kush, and Gihon with Amu Darya (Jihon/Jayhon of the Islamic texts). Amu Darya was known in the medieval Islamic writers as Jayhun...
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    the Amu Darya (Oxus River) as far west as Khwaja Salar (near Khamyab), and a joint Russian-British commission would define the boundary from the Amu Darya...
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    This article provides a list of the maritime ports and harbours of Turkmenistan. Turkmenbashy International Seaport Alaja Loading Terminal (oil) Ekerem...
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    Pamirs", separated by the Yarkand valley from the Kunlun Mountains. PAMIR AMU DARYA HELMAND HINDU KUSH Since the Victorian era, they have been known as the...
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    few lakes. The two largest rivers feeding Uzbekistan are the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, which originate in the mountains of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan...
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    northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya. Its administrative centre is Türkmenabat (formerly named Çärjew). It...
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    Old Termez, located a few kilometers west of the modern city along the Amu Darya river, was established sometime before the 3rd century BC. The city may...
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    in 2021 was 145,000, an increase from 139,100 in 1999. It lies on the Amu Darya River and the Shavat canal. The city is situated 450 km (280 mi) west...
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    located in Central Asia, in the land between the confluent rivers Amu Darya and Syr Darya, a region historically known as Transoxania. Today it is divided...
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    Karakum Desert (category Amu Darya)
    about 58 m (190 ft) higher than the Caspian Sea. The delta is that of the Amu Darya river to the northeast, demarcating the long border with the Kyzylkum...
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