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Yarmuk River

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Yarmuk River

River, northwestern Jordan. It rises in southwestern Syria and flows southwest to its confluence with the Jordan River. For most of its total course of about 50 mi (80 km), it forms the boundary between Syria and Jordan. A major battle along the river between invading Muslim Arabs and Byzantine forces in 636 AD established Muslim dominance in Palestine. That dominance, broken only by the period of the Crusades (1099–1291), lasted until World War I (1914–18). Since the Six-Day War of 1967, the lower river valley has been under Israeli control.



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Jordan maintains a major canal that diverts water from the Yarmuk River, the Jordan River's largest single tributary.
00 Hardcover Praeger illustrated military history DS97 In 636 AD, after protracted skirmishes, the Arab and Byzantine armies faced each other on the banks of the Yarmuk River.
The Jordanians were in dispute with Syria over water in the 1990s following the latter's creation of diversionary dams on the Yarmuk River.
 
 
 
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