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Yarmuk River |
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Yarmuk RiverRiver, 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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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. Jordan maintains a major canal that diverts water from the Yarmuk River, the Jordan River's largest single tributary. In return, as part of the agreement, Syria would then increase its allocation of flow to Jordan through the Yarmuk River, which would be diverted to the Abdullah Canal in Jordan on the eastern side of the Jordan Valley. |
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