Sādschūr (river)

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location	Turkey , Syria
River system	Shatt al-Arab
Drain over	Euphrates  → Shatt al-Arab  → Persian Gulf
origin	Confluence of the source rivers south of Gaziantep
muzzle	in the Tischrin Dam Coordinates: 36 ° 39 ′ 35 "  N , 38 ° 4 ′ 14"  E 36 ° 39 ′ 35 "  N , 38 ° 4 ′ 14"  E
length	108 km

The Sādjūr ( Arabic نهر الساجور; Turkish Sayur Çayı ; antique daradax ; Assyrian Sagura ) is a 108 km long river whose head rivers converge south of Gaziantep in Turkey and which flows into the Euphrates on the right side after 60 km in Turkey and 48 km in Syria in the area of ​​the Tischrin Dam .

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At the end of 2016, it formed a borderline between Kurdish and Turkish-backed units during the Turkish military offensive in northern Syria .

Individual evidence

1. ^ John F. Kolars, William A. Mitchell (1991): The Euphrates River and the Southeast Anatolia Development Project. Carbondale: SIU Press, ISBN 978-0-8093-1572-7 , page 109.

literature

• Immanuel Benzinger : Daradax . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 2, Stuttgart 1901, Col. 2151.