Quwaiq

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Quwaiq
Qoueiq
The Quwaiq in Aleppo

The Quwaiq in Aleppo

Data
location Gaziantep Province (Turkey) and Aleppo Governorate (Syria)
source in the southern Gaziantep Plateau
Infiltration in the plain south of Aleppo Coordinates: 36 ° 11 ′ 16 ″  N , 37 ° 8 ′ 25 ″  E 36 ° 11 ′ 16 ″  N , 37 ° 8 ′ 25 ″  E

The Quwaiq (also Qoueiq), Quweiq or Qoueiq ( Arabic قويق, DMG quwayq [ quwajq ]; in northern Syriac vernacular ʾwēʾ [nordwɛːʔ]) (ancient Chalos), also called Aleppo River, is a river and its valley that flows through the Aleppo Governorate, Syria and Turkey. The northern Syrian city of Aleppo is also located on the 129 kilometer long river . The Quwaiq rises in the southern Gaziantep Plateau in southeastern Turkey. The Akpınar Deresi brook in the Kilis plain is one of the upper reaches of the Quwaiq. The ancient city of Chalkis lay on its banks. It flows partially along the western edge of the Matah Depression. The valley has been inhabited for thousands of years and in ancient times the Quwaiq valley was known for its flint industry and ceramics.

In the late 1960s, the Quwaiq River dried up completely as a result of irrigation projects on the Turkish side of the border. Recently, water was diverted from the Euphrates to revive the dead river and thus the agriculture in the plains south of Aleppo, but many Syrians resent the Turks for their handling of the river.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mario Liverani: Neo-Assyrian geography . Università di Roma, Dipartimento di scienze storiche, archeologiche e antropologiche dell'Antichità, 1995, p. 121 (accessed on September 30, 2011).
  2. ^ Robert R. Phenix: The sermons on Joseph of Balai of Qenneshrin: rhetoric and interpretation in fifth-century Syriac literature . Mohr Siebeck, December 20, 2008, ISBN 978-3-16-149676-9 , p. 53 (accessed September 30, 2011).
  3. ^ Wolfgang Wagner: Groundwater in the Arab Middle East . Springer, July 25, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-19350-7 , p. 165 (accessed September 30, 2011).
  4. ^ Peter Neal Peregrine , Melvin Ember, Human Relations Area Files, inc: Encyclopedia of Prehistory: South and Southwest Asia . Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-0-306-46262-7 , p. 42 (accessed September 30, 2011).
  5. ↑ Erik Gren: Orientalia Suecana . Almquist & Wiksell Periodical Co., 2002, p. 37 (Accessed September 30, 2011).

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