Syr Darya

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Syr Dar·ya

 (sîr där′yə, dər-yä′)
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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Syr Darya

(Russian sir darjˈja)
n
(Placename) a river in central Asia, formed from two headstreams rising in the Tian Shan: flows generally west to the Aral Sea: the longest river in central Asia. Length: (from the source of the Naryn) 2900 km (1800 miles). Ancient name: Jaxartes
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Syr Dar•ya

(ˈsɪər ˈdɑr yə)
n.
a river in central Asia, flowing NW from the Tien Shan Mountains to the Aral Sea. 1300 mi. (2100 km) long. Ancient name, Jaxartes.
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Many of the uranium legacy sites are concentrated along the tributaries to the Syr Darya River, which runs through the densely populated Fergana Valley, the agricultural centre of the region which is shared by the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The young woman reportedly decided to get rid of the constant reproaches and insults of her mother-in-law and threw herself into the Syr Darya in April this year.
Baikonur is a city of republic significance in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river, rented and administered by Russia.
Simply put, the subject of the dispute in Central Asia is two large rivers, the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya, in which there is not enough water for all the needs of the region.
Both the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya sounded special to our ears all those years ago when we studied Central Asian geography in school, but now they had all come to life.
Among their topics are Dunhuang and two revolutions in the history of the Chinese book, a possible adaptation of the Book of the Giants in the Manichaean Traite, the Rouran Qaghanate and the western regions during the second half of the fifth century based on a Chinese document newly found in Turfan, on the Chinese name for the Syr Darya in Xuanzang's Account of Western Regions, beyond deciphering: an overview of Tocharian studies during the past 30 years, and Kaniska in the Old Turkic tradition.
During their meeting, the mountainous countries Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, and the lower land countries Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, who are the main consumers of such large transboundary rivers as Syr Darya and Amu Darya, which form the basin of the Aral Sea (the fourth largest lake in the world), expressed their anxiety regarding the uneven distribution of water resources.
Cotton uses about 3.5 cubic 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.
(Barki Tojik) to provide project implementation consulting services for the modernisation of the 126-MW Kayrakkum hydroelectric facility on the Syr Darya River in northwest Tajikistan.
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