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	ArchAtlas: Tellspotting: Balikh
		The Balikh river runs from north to south, in between the middle Euphrates to the west and the Khabur to the east, running roughly parallel with both of them.
		The well-watered northern parts of the Balikh valley form a stepping-stone in the east-west corridor of the northern Fertile Crescent, between the other two rivers, as well as a north-south axis in its own right.
		The railway follows the frontier with Syria, which is the roughly horizontal double line at the base of the map.
	www.archatlas.dept.shef.ac.uk /Tellspotting/Balikh.php (180 words)

	Tell Sabi Abyad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the upper Balikh valley of northern Syria lays the prehistoric mound Tell Sabi Abyad (Arab for ‘mound of the white boy’).
		A branch of the Balikh river (called the Nahr et-Turkman) is believed to have once run along the side of the complex but is now situated west of the mounds, partly due to its course being changed as time passed by the villagers of Hammam et-Turkman for irrigation purposes.
		The Balikh stone assemblages from Sabi Abyad reflect a domestic village situation and relate to the site’s geographical location, between the Levant and Mesopotamia, indicating the extent of the trade networks due to Sabi Abyad having contact with both areas.
	www.art.man.ac.uk /ARTHIST/ay2091/sites03-04/sabi-1.htm (2183 words)

	The Patriarchs
		In simpler terms, it is the valley of the river Balikh, between the Euphrates in the west and the Habur in the east.
		So, the Valley of the Balikh was the area from where Abraham was supposed to continue his journey to Canaan, after his father Terah died in Haran.
		And the servant went to the valley of the Balikh, unto the city of Nahor, but not before asking his master what to do, if he finds a girl and she will not want to return with him.
	www.eg-ban.com /patriarchs06.html (5226 words)

	GEO World - Jul 2002 - Fieldwork Applications: An Ancient Cityscape Revealed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Raqqa lays at the confluence of the Euphrates and its tributary, the Balikh, in north-central Syria.
		The modern Euphrates and Balikh Valleys are intensively cultivated, and irrigated agriculture has been practiced from at least the Bronze Age.
		The Balikh Valley north of Raqqa has traces of settlement from the Neolithic onward, while Tell Bi'a, northeast of Raqqa, was occupied from the third millennium B.C. To appreciate the city's strategic location and its broad landscape setting, remotely sensed imagery has been used.
	www.geoplace.com /gw/2002/0207/0207cs.asp (864 words)

	Tell Sabi Abyad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The earliest levels (Eleven to seven) are part of the first stage of the pottery Neolithic, known as Balikh II and generally date around 6000 – 5200 B.C. of this there are three suggested sub phases Balikh IIA to IIC.
		The lowest level is provisionally thought to be part of Balikh IIA on the basis of parallels between the ceramics found there and those found at sites such as Tell Assouad.
		The upper three levels or Balikh IIIB date from the Halaf at around 5100 – 5000 B.C. These levels are characterised by an open arrangement of circular and rectangular structures.
	www.art.man.ac.uk /ARTHIST/ay2091/sites03-04/sabi-2.htm (2596 words)

	1995-96 JAZIRA PROJECT ANNUAL REPORT
		By the close of the 1994 field season a large portion of the central Balikh Valley had been mapped and checked in the field.
		Part of the 1995 field season was spent "in the footsteps of Mallowan," examining sites and geomorphology in the vicinity of former sources of the Balikh River at 'Ain al-'Arous and Tell Abyad (located a little to the north of the northern limit shown in fig.
		Part of the 1995 campaign was therefore aimed at examining the central Balikh Valley downstream of the verified canal in order to trace its lower reaches, together with sites that were apparently dependent upon it for irrigation water.
	www-oi.uchicago.edu /OI/AR/95-96/95-96_Jazira.html (1668 words)

	Oriental Institute \| EXPEDITION TO EGYPT, 1919
		To Sir Max Mallowan the Balikh Valley in northern Syria (near present day Raqqa) was something of a backwater, so one may wonder why I spend most of my summers baking in the relentless heat in a bare bleak valley devoid of trees and most wildlife.
		Despite their obvious differences, however, similarities can be found and here I will attempt to illustrate one theme that links the two areas: that of agricultural technology, and the ability of human communities to harness it to their own advantage.
		The crucial data derived from a section across the Balikh River, exposed some twenty kilometers downstream by engineers who were constructing a new canal from Lake Tabqa, which showed a broad channel cut into the alluvium of the Balikh adjacent to the substantial Bronze Age pile of Tell es-Seman (fig.
	oi.uchicago.edu /research/pubs/nn/fal95_jaz.html (2496 words)

	Tell Sabi Abyad - Archaeology in Syria - Tell Sabi Abyad
		The well-known archaeologist Max Mallowan, during his archaeological field-work assisted by his wife Agatha Christie (yes, indeed, the best-seller author), was not the first Westerner to visit the Balikh valley in Northern Syria.
		This is why the Balikh is an important water source for the steppes of Northern Syria.
		The Syrian steppe along the Balikh river is a vast and beautiful plain.
	www.sabi-abyad.nl /tellsabiabyad/detell/info/index/?language=en (557 words)

	The Genesis narrative in the light of recent scholarship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The city has been definitely located in upper Mesopotamia, between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, in the Balikh valley and can be found on the site of the modern Harran in Turkey.
		It has been shown that Harran was a pilgrimage city, for it was a center of the Sin cult and consequently closely related to the moon-god cult of Ur.
		After indicating a stay of indeterminate length in Harran, the Bible says only that Terah died there, at the age of 205, and that Abraham was 75 when he took up the journey again with his family and his goods.
	ragz-international.com /genesis_narrative_in_the_light_o.htm (1612 words)

	A Directory of Wetlands in the Middle East
		The main source of water for the lake was the spring of Ain al-Arus; the marshes to the north of the lake were fed directly by branches of the Balikh River.
		However, in the autumn of 1984, the lake was completely dry, and by 1992, the lake, marshes, spring and river itself were all dry because of diversion of water for irrigation on the Anatolian Plateau in Turkey and pumping of groundwater for irrigation in Syria.
		Disturbances and threats: The drainage of wetlands in the Balikh valley and the conversion of steppe to rain-fed and irrigated farmland, with associated intensification of agriculture, use of agrochemicals and increased levels of human disturbance, are critical problems.
	www.wetlands.org /RSIS/WKBASE/MiddleEastDir/SYRIA.htm (8894 words)

	The Neolithic of the Levant (Excerpt 70)
		As one of the determinations is altogether much too early (Mc-607) it may be that the other dates are also incorrect.
		The site is Tell Khirbet Bassal which lies on the Karamuk - a tributary which flows parallel with the Balikh on the west.
		It has not been excavated but Halaf sherds were found near the summit and flint and obsidian artifacts lower down together with fragments of stone bowls comparable with those at Bouqras...
	ancientneareast.tripod.com /70.html (1018 words)

	Balikh - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Balikh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Here you will find more informations about Balikh.
		The Balikh River is a river in Turkey and Syria that empties into the Euphrates.
		The ancient city of Haran, where Abram's father lived, was said to have been situated on this River, though others have identified Haran's River as the Khabur
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Balikh.html (101 words)

	»►Balikh, Map of south america« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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	map-of-south-america.osbercad.com /balikh.html (167 words)

	Tual al-’Abba (Important Birds Areas of Syria)
		However by 1992 (and perhaps as early as 1984) the lakes, springs, and river itself were all dry due to major and unsustainable water abstraction from the Balikh river for irrigation in Turkey and Syria.
		The majority of the steppe is cultivated with cereals and cotton and otherwise very heavily grazed by livestock; crop failures are common during droughts.
		A1, B2 Conservation issues The drainage of wetlands in the Balikh valley and the conversion of steppe to rain-fed and irrigated farmland, with associated intensification of agriculture, use of agrochemicals and increased levels of human disturbance, are critical problems.
	www.birdlife.org /datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=8294&m=0 (431 words)

	WilkinsonT_25_1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		This landscape survey of the Balikh Valley in Syria straddles the limit of rain-fed cultivation.
		By coupling the evidence from such features with archaeological site survey, I suggest that water supply in the Balikh River constrained total settlement, and therefore population, to a limited size.
		During the phase of nucleated Early and Middle Bronze Age settlement, nodal settlements formed a focus for the limited pattern of irrigation canals.
	www.bu.edu /jfa/Abstracts/W/WilkinsonT_25_1.html (182 words)

	balikh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Overig onderzoek in de Balikh vallei / Other research in the Balikh valley AKKERMANS P.M.M.G. 1988 andquot;An Updated Chronology for the Northern Ubaid and...
		Human settlement in the Balikh valley has a long history, and due to its central geographic position...
		Urhoy is located on the Balikh River, in the North-Western region of Beth-Nahreen (Mesopotamia), between the two great rivers...
	balikh.networklive.org (332 words)

	Regional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Prior to sedenterization, this region was important for its wells and was one of the first areas resettled in the early 20th century, indicating a high potential for agropastoral economies.
		Berthold Einwag reconnoitered the northern half of the Balikh —Euphrates uplands in 1993 (Einwag 1993).
		While the sites are located in rugged terrain, far away from the cities of the Euphrates and Balikh, the need for the costly transport of cereal surpluses could be obviated by using them for the pastoral economy.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /anthro/sweyhat/RegionalProj.htm (4770 words)

	Water, Institutions and Development in Syria: A Downstream Perspective from the Euphrates and Tigris
		It is joined by its major tributaries, the Balikh and Khabur, and flows Southeast before entering Iraq.
		According to official Syrian sources, this is due to the still incomplete phases of the GAP (Interview with State Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1999).
		Other important rivers are tributaries of the Euphrates, such as its left bank Sajur River, and the Balikh and Khabur Rivers on its right bank.
	www.dams.org /kbase/submissions/showsub.php?rec=env108 (7208 words)

	Euphrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The upper reaches of the Euphrates flow through steep canyons and gorges then southeast across Syria and then through Iraq.
		The Khabur and the Balikh River join the Euphrates in eastern Syria.
		Downstream, through its whole length, the Euphrates receives no further water flow.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Euphrates (808 words)

	3SI History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Study and design of 20 km of the main canal of 140 m3/sec of AL BALIKH project – with GERSAR.
		Study of the water planning of the Balikh Basin – Syria – with SOGREAH.
		Study of the possible impacts of a highway between Damascus and Bloudan on the Figeh and Boukein springs – with SOGREAH.
	www.3si-damas.com /ref2.html (1303 words)

	Harran
		It is situated on Balikh River, 40 km southeast of Sanliurfa.
		The reason for this decline, is partly because of damming and irrigation projects in Turkey, which has weakened condtions for agriculture in the Balikh Valley.
		Harran is a place of legends and myths, and stories go that Adam and Eve came here after being expelled from the Garden og Eden.
	i-cias.com /e.o/harran.htm (407 words)

	Map Locations for Archaeological Discoveries from Biblical Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In the region of Haran there is unmistakable evidence of the extended Hebrew residence in the vicinity of the Balikh and Habur Rivers, two tributaries of the Euphrates east of the great bend south of ancient Carchemish.
		The town of Haran (Gen. 11:31; 12:5) is still in existence on the Balikh River sixty miles west of Tell Halaf.
		It was flourishing in the nineteenth and eighteenth centuries B.C., as is known from in its cuneiform sources.
	home.comcast.net /~watchmanbiblestudy/Resources/SeeItNow.htm (581 words)

	Archaeological sites in Syria
		The Archaeological Landscape of the Balikh Valley (Syria)
		The Archaeological Landscape of the Balikh Valley, Syria: 1995-96 Oriental Institute Annual Report.
		A Balikh Prospect: (This article originally appeared in The Oriental Institute News and Notes, No. 147, Fall 1995, and is made available electronically with the permission of the editor.)
	danenet.wicip.org /mbas/country/syria.html (221 words)

	Al-Battani biography
		Al-Battani was born in Harran, called Carrhae in earlier times by the Romans, which lies on the Balikh River, 38 km southeast of Urfa.
		The town had been renamed al-Rashid at that time but, by the time al-Battani began observing there, it had reverted to the name of ar-Raqqah.
		The town was on the Euphrates River just west of where it joins the Balikh River (on which Harran stands).
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Al-Battani.html (1291 words)

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		The evidence shows conclusively that Abraham's family settled in the region a little south of Ron's site for Babel, in the area of the Euphrates "loop" and the tributary, the Balikh River.
		A town called Nahuru (Nahor, the name of Abraham's grandfather as well as a brother) is known from both the Cappadocian tablets and the Mari texts to be in the same region.
		The name of Abraham's father, Terah, is preserved at Til-sa-Turah, the "ruin of Terah" in the Balikh Valley.
	www.wyattnewsletters.com /babel/babel07.htm (1065 words)

	Tony James Wilkinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In addition, by integrating archaeological and landscape surveys with ancient historical and art historical records it is possible to document and examine more critically interactions between human populations and environmental change over long time periods.
		Current field activities comprise research on the following Oriental Institute projects: Syrian Jazira Landscape Project (Balikh Valley Syria, with National Museum, Leiden, Netherlands; Tell Beydar, Syria, with Leuven University, Belgium), Hamoukar Project (Oriental Institute); Yemen, Dhamar Project (Oriental Institute); The Amuq Valley Project (with Aslihan Yener of the Oriental Institute).
		1998 "Settlement and irrigation in the Balikh Valley, Syria from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BC," Subartu IV.1: 151-70.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /depts/nelc/facultypages/wilkinson (1824 words)

	5. Babel and Ur of the Chaldees
		It is also located on the Balikh River—the Euphrates, flowing south, turns west, then south and then east, around this plain area.
		The Balikh River branches off the western curve of the Euphrates and flows directly south and meets up with the eastern curve.
		There is a great deal of logic in assuming that the people who remained closest to Noah and his immediate family would have had access to the greatest amount of knowledge.
	www.biblerevelations.org /ronwyatt/babelandur.htm (1742 words)

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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/oclc/29356629 (129 words)

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