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  Hari_Rud
The Rudkhaneh-ye Hari Rud (sometimes Harirud) is a river flowing 1100 kilometers from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it disappears in the Kara-Kum desert.
The river meets the Jam Rud at the site of the Minaret of Jam, said to be the second tallest minaret in the world at 65 meters.
In Turkmenistan it is known as the Tejen or Tedzhen river and passes close to the city of Tedzhen.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hari_rud.html   (246 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kara Kum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Caspian Kara Kum or Garagum, the larger desert (c.115,000 sq mi/297,900 sq km), is W of the Amu Darya River and includes most of Turkmenistan.
The Murghab and Tejen rivers flow out of the Hindu Kush Mts.
The oases of Mary and Tejen are noted for cotton growing.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/KaraKum.asp   (387 words)

  
 Adherents.com
But during the seventh century B.C., the powerful Assyrians invaded their territory, forcing the Kush to retreat up the Nile River and resettle inthe ancient city of Meroe.
From 500 B.C. to A.D. 200 the Kushites controlled a wide empir that was known throughout Africa for its iron tools and weapons.
Their region includes the upper Yukon valley, the Yukon territory, and to the far east, the mouth of the MacKenzie River...
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 Amu Darya
The Kara Kum Canal (c.500 mi/800 km long) carries water from the Amu Darya near Kelif across S Turkmenistan to Ashgabat and supplements the flow of the Tejen and Murgab rivers.
The Amu Darya is paralleled by the Trans-Caspian RR, which has lessened the river's importance as a transport route.
Principal Rivers of the World - (See Rivers of the United States for other U.S. rivers.) Approx.
www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0803828.html   (281 words)

  
 IRANIAN HISTORY: PARTHIANS: Dynasty of Arsacid Empire - (CAIS) ©
The most important role during this period was played by the Parni, an Iranian tribe belonging to the Dahaewho, according to the ancient writers (Arrian, Anubasis 3.28.8,10; Quintus Curtius 8.1.8) lived in the territories between the Oxus and the Jaxartes at the time of Alexander of Macedon.
About the end of the fourth or at the latest by the middle of the third century B.C. the Parni had advanced as far as the frontiers of the Seleucid kingdom, whether in the vicinity of the Caspian Sea or on the river Tejen (Turkmenistan).
The movements of the Parni and Dahae beginning in the area between the Oxus and the Jaxartesand ending in the immediate vicinity of the Seleucid satrapy of Parthava, are difficult to reconstruct and therefore a matter of dispute among historians.
www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_dynasty.htm   (7121 words)

  
 Top 20 Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Rudkhaneh-ye Hari Rud (sometimes Harirud) is a river flowing from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it disappears in the Kara-Kum desert.
The river meets the Jam Rud at the site of the Minaret of Jam, said to be the second tallest minaret in the world at 65 metres.
A mention of the Tedzhen river - http://www.purethrottle.com/briancoad/Species%20Accounts/speciesaccountsintro.htmde:Hari Rud
encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Hari_Rud   (293 words)

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