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Yarmuk

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Yarmuk (yärmk`), river, c.50 mi (80 km) long, rising near the Jordan-Syria border and flowing generally W to the Jordan River, S of the Sea of Galilee. One of the region's larger rivers, it is used primarily for irrigation. The East Ghor Canal branches from the Yarmuk to irrigate the E Ghor Ghor, Ghowr (gôr), or Ghur
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 region of the Jordan valley.

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In December, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported Syrian anger over construction of a new water reservoir in the east of the occupied Golan, near the 1967 border, reducing the amount of water which would reach the shared Yarmuk River.
Sunnis are in Ghazalia, Hay al-Adil, and Yarmuk," he says, rattling off areas of the capital.
Jordan maintains a major canal that diverts water from the Yarmuk River, the Jordan River's largest single tributary.
 
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