alternative words: Shatt al-Arab
keywords:
locality
related topics:
Euphrates river
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Tigris river
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Ottoman empire
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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.
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