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... 37 KB (3,797 words) - 20:51, 25 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,619 words) - 01:51, 24 April 2024 |
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... 84 KB (9,442 words) - 16:02, 28 March 2024 |
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)... 44 KB (4,975 words) - 09:27, 22 March 2024 |
Amu Darya to its south and the Syr Darya to its north. Historically known in Persian as Farā-rūd (Persian: فرارود, [fæɾɒːˈɾuːd̪] – 'beyond the [Amu]... 13 KB (1,494 words) - 00:10, 24 January 2024 |
Dwarf sturgeon (redirect from Small amu-dar shovelnose sturgeon) The dwarf sturgeon, little shovelnose sturgeon, or small Amu-Darya shovelnose sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni) is a species of fish in the family... 7 KB (684 words) - 04:00, 5 July 2023 |
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... 1 KB (188 words) - 16:53, 3 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (853 words) - 12:32, 1 April 2024 |
List of rivers of Kyrgyzstan (section Amu Darya basin) 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... 4 KB (392 words) - 08:42, 10 January 2024 |
The Amu Darya Pipeline Bridge is a suspension bridge on the Amu Darya river. It is primarily a pipeline bridge but can also carry one lane of traffic... 2 KB (67 words) - 18:29, 13 November 2023 |
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... 8 KB (903 words) - 15:20, 15 March 2024 |
The Uzboy (sometimes rendered Uzboj) was a distributary of the Amu Darya which flowed through the northwestern part of the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan... 6 KB (826 words) - 09:18, 4 October 2023 |
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... 40 KB (3,850 words) - 08:26, 17 April 2024 |
1872) (Syr Darya sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus hermanni (Kessler, 1877) (Dwarf sturgeon) Pseudoscaphirhynchus kaufmanni (Kessler, 1877) (Amu Darya sturgeon)... 57 KB (5,446 words) - 00:21, 7 April 2024 |
Socialist Republic. The canal was intended to transport water from the Amu Darya river to Krasnovodsk (now Türkmenbaşy), a city in Turkmenistan on the... 6 KB (799 words) - 18:14, 29 March 2023 |
Ports and harbours in Turkmenistan (section Amu Darya) This article provides a list of the maritime ports and harbours of Turkmenistan. Turkmenbashy International Seaport Alaja Loading Terminal (oil) Ekerem... 2 KB (123 words) - 13:58, 16 July 2022 |
partly due to climate patterns, but also largely because the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers are mostly diverted in the eastern parts of Uzbekistan.... 29 KB (1,879 words) - 07:34, 13 April 2024 |
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... 11 KB (964 words) - 22:50, 1 March 2024 |
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... 41 KB (4,636 words) - 07:49, 28 April 2024 |
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... 86 KB (8,766 words) - 01:12, 1 April 2024 |
northeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan, Uzbekistan along the Amu Darya. Its administrative centre is Türkmenabat (formerly named Çärjew). It... 22 KB (1,580 words) - 21:52, 26 January 2024 |
"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... 4 KB (466 words) - 15:54, 14 February 2024 |
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... 36 KB (3,505 words) - 15:27, 2 April 2024 |