Hindiyya Canal
Hindiyya Canal Indian Canal, Schatt al-Hindiyya |
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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 |
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muzzle | at Kufa again in the Euphrates coordinates: 32 ° 3 '34 " N , 44 ° 23' 39" E 32 ° 3 '34 " N , 44 ° 23' 39" E
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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.
literature
- Meir Litvak: Shi'i Scholars of Nineteenth-Century Iraq: The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala '. 2010 ( online excerpt )
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).