Online dictionary of Iraq war: locality

Page number: 1

Abu Ghraib

alternative words: Abu Ghurayb, Abu Ghraib prison
keywords: locality
related topics: Baghdad , Saddam Hussein
related web sites: http://www.antiwar.com/news/?articleid=2444 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_(prison)
explanation: Located 32km west of Baghdad near International airport and covering 1.15 km2, Abu Ghraib prison was built in 60's by British contractors and notorious for tortures and summary executions of Saddam's political opponents. Amnesty international estimates several hundreds inmates were executed without judgments. In 2004, the Western media revealed the same facility continued to be used by the coalition force to torture their opponents, too. Now it is closed and planed to be destroyed.

Euphrates river

alternative words: Euphrates, Euphrate
keywords: locality
related topics: Tigris river , Basra , Shatt al Arab
related web sites: http://i-cias.com/e.o/euphrats.htm , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrates
explanation: With the Tigris river, the Euphrates is one of the 2 largest rivers in the middle east. It takes a source from the eastern Turkish mountains, crosses Syria and Iraq, then pours onto Persian Gulf after merging with the Tigris at Qurna near Basra to become Shatt al Arab. Crossing an arid region, the water distribution provokes frequently a dispute among riverside countries. The Euphrates is cited by the Bible as one of 4 rivers that flow from the garden of Eden. Its length is 2,780 km.

Shatt al Arab

alternative words: Shatt al-Arab
keywords: locality
related topics: Euphrates river , Tigris river , Ottoman empire , Basra
related web sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shatt_Al_Arab
explanation: During the ancient Mesopotamian civilization eras, the Euphrates and the Tigris pours separately into Persian Gulf. Soils brought by the rivers have reclaimed progressively the land and nowadays they are confluent at Qurna near Basra before reaching Persian Gulf. This common section of 200km length is called Shatt al Arab, i.e. cost of Arabs and forms an Iraq-Iran border at its lower part according to a peace treaty, signed by Ottoman and Persian empires in 1639 but it was always contested by both sides.

Tigris river

alternative words: Tigris
keywords: locality
related topics: Euphrates river , Mosul , Baghdad , Basra , Shatt al Arab
related web sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigris , http://lexicorient.com/e.o/tigris.htm
explanation: With the Euphrates river, the Tigris is one of the 2 largest rivers in the middle east. It takes a source from the eastern Turkish mountains, goes through Iraq by irrigating Iraqi major cities such as Mosul, Samarra and Baghdad, then pours onto Persian Gulf after merging with the Euphrates at Qurna near Basra to become Shatt al Arab. The Tigris is cited by the Bible as one of 4 rivers that flow from the garden of Eden. Its length is 1,850 km.

Page number: 1
4 articles extracted from postgresql database.