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    The Amu Darya (/ˌɑːmuː ˈdɑːrjə/ AH-moo DAR-yə),(Persian: آمو دریا) also shortened to Amu and historically known as the Oxus (/ˈɒksəs/ OK-səss), is a major...
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    stresses that the latter two are not necessarily Sayhūn (Syr Daria) and Jayhūn (Amu Daria). In a hadith narrated by Ibn Abbas Tigris is also included into...
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  • to the Lebap Region of Turkmenistan. Completed in 1964, it has a main span of 390 metres (1,280 ft). Amu-Daria River Bridge at Structurae v t e v t e...
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  • named Daria or Darya St. Daria (died c. 283), early Christian martyr Daria (hurricane), or the Burns' Day Storm Daria (moth), a genus of moth Amu Darya...
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    leave Afghanistan, crossing on foot the Friendship Bridge spanning the Amu-Daria river on 15 February 1989, the day the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan...
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    JSTOR Archived 8 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine "The old beds of the Amu-Daria", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3. (Sep. 1898), pp. 306–310,...
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    during a huge land reclamation program in areas such as the Syr-Daria and Amu-Daria rivers and the Aral Sea. The Russian army was instructed to exterminate...
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    Urgench is situated in north-western Turkmenistan, on the left bank of the Amu Daria River. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, part of the Achaemenid...
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  • 2nd Corps under General Władysław Anders: From the camp on the river Amu-Daria - where I was sent from the North - I was evacuated finally with other...
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    bridge at Kerki, in Lebap Province of Turkmenistan, built over the river Amu Darya. The cost of the bridge was $123 million. It was developed by the Ukrainian...
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