Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of Central Asia rising in the Tian Shan and flowing about 2,220 km (1,380 mi) generally southwest through eastern Uzbekistan and northern Tajikistan, then flowing generally northwest back through Uzbekistan and south-central Kazakhstan to the Aral Sea.
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- proper noun A major river of
Central Asia , running parallel to theAmu Darya .
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The Oxus and the Jaxartes -- currently known as the Syr Darya and Amu Darya are all the water that region has.
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Jaxartes: Flowing into the Aral Sea, the modern Syr Darya was the northeastern boundary of the Persian Empire and the scene of fierce fighting by Alexander.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Jaxartes: Flowing into the Aral Sea, the modern Syr Darya was the northeastern boundary of the Persian Empire and the scene of fierce fighting by Alexander.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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Jaxartes: Flowing into the Aral Sea, the modern Syr Darya was the northeastern boundary of the Persian Empire and the scene of fierce fighting by Alexander.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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The hydrological role of snow and ice from the mountains is particularly high for the Tarim, Syr Darya, Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) rivers.
ICIMOD Press release 2009
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Cotton uses about 3.5 acre feet of water per acre of plants, leading Soviet planners to divert ever-increasing volumes of water from the region's two primary rivers, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya, into inefficient irrigation canals, resulting in the dramatic shrinkage of the rivers 'final destination, the Aral Sea.
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In the Aral Sea basin in Central Asia, there is an uneasy arrangement among five countries over the sharing of the two rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, that drain into the sea.
When Population Growth and Resource Availability Collide 2009
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Similarly, the volume of water in the Aral Sea basin has been reduced by 75% since 1960 due mainly to large-scale upstream diversions of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river flow for irrigation of close to 7 million hectares.
Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Wetlands and Water~ Summary for Decision-makers 2008
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The major rivers, including the Syr Darya, Ili (Yili), and Chu, flow generally westward.
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During the Soviet period, the sharing of water resources among the five Central Asia republics was on the basis of master plans for the water resources development in the Amu Darya and Syr Darya river basins.
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