The Syr Darya (/ˌsɪər ˈdɑːr.jə/, Persian pronunciation: [siːɾ dæɾˈjɒː]), historically known as the Jaxartes (/dʒækˈsɑːrtiːz/, Ancient Greek: Ἰαξάρτης)...
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The Syr Darya sturgeon (Pseudoscaphirhynchus fedtschenkoi), or Syr Darya shovelnose sturgeon, is a species of fish in the family Acipenseridae. It is found...
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Aral Sea (redirect from Daryâ-ye Khârazm)
bringing unemployment and economic hardship. The water from the diverted Syr Darya river is used to irrigate about two million hectares (5,000,000 acres)...
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The Syr-Darya Oblast was one of the oblasts of the Russian Empire, a part of Russian Turkestan. Its center was Tashkent. The Syr-Darya Oblast was founded...
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built a line of forts from the north side of the Aral Sea eastward up the Syr Darya river. In 1847–1864, they crossed the eastern Kazakh Steppe and built...
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Kazakhstan along the Irgiz, Yaik, Emba, and Uil rivers, the Aral Sea area, the Syr Darya valley, the foothills of the Karatau Mountains in Tien-Shan, and the Chui...
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Yakhsha Arta ("upper Yakhsha") referring to the Jaxartes/Syr Darya twin river to Amu Darya). In Middle Persian sources of the Sasanian period the river...
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List of rivers of Kyrgyzstan (section Syr Darya basin)
other rivers are listed by the rivers they flow into. Some rivers (e.g. Syr Darya) do not flow through Kyrgyzstan themselves, but they are mentioned for...
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The Syr-Darya dace (Squalius squaliusculus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the Aral Sea basin. Froese, Rainer;...
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Caspian Sea (redirect from Daryā-i Xazar)
through a now-desiccated riverbed called the Uzboy River, as did the Syr Darya farther north. The Caspian has several small islands, primarily located...
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