Hindiyya Canal

Hindiyya Canal Indian Canal, Schatt al-Hindiyya
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Data
location	Iraq
River system	Shatt al-Arab
Drain over	Euphrates  → Shatt al-Arab  → Persian Gulf
origin	Branch from Euphrates at al-Hindiyya (southeast Kerbela ) 32 ° 30 '56 "  N , 44 ° 14' 50"  O
muzzle	at Kufa again in the Euphrates coordinates: 32 ° 3 '34 "  N , 44 ° 23' 39"  E 32 ° 3 '34 "  N , 44 ° 23' 39"  E

The Hindiyya Canal or Indian Canal ( Arabic شط الهندية Schatt al-Hindiyya ) is a canal thatsupplies Najaf with water from the Euphrates . It was built by Indian Shiites from Awadh and opened in 1803.

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literature

• Meir Litvak: Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala '. 2010 ( online excerpt )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Halm: The Shiites (=  Beck'sche series . Volume 2358 ). CH Beck, 2005, ISBN 3-406-50858-8 , pp. 118 ( limited preview in Google Book search).