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* Murghab River ( Afghanistan ), the river that rises in northwestern Afghanistan and ends in the Kara Kum desert of Turkmenistan
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The oasis of Merv is situated on the Murghab River that flows down from Afghanistan, on the southern edge of the Karakum Desert, at 37 ° 30 ’ N and 62 ° E, about north of Herat, and south of Khiva.
Merv is advantageously situated in the inland delta of the Murghab River, which flows from its source in the Hindu Kush northwards through the Garagum desert.
– Murghab River ( Tajikistan )
* A northern route led up the valley of the Pamir River to Zorkul lake, then east through the mountains to the valley of the Murghab River, then across the Sarikol Range to China.
* A central route branched off the southern route through the Little Pamir to the Murghab River valley.
Agriculture in Mary Province is irrigated by the Karakum Canal, which runs east to west through the center of the province, and by the Murghab River, which runs south to north, entering the province from Afghanistan.
The capital of Mary Province is the city of Mary, located at the intersection of Murghab River with the Karakum Canal.
West of the Pamir Knot is the Little Pamir, a broad U-shaped grassy valley 100 km long and 10 km wide, which contains Chaqmaqtin Lake, the headwaters of the Aksu or Murghab River.
Upon reaching the Murghab River, he changed his mind and headed for Khurasan.
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The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River was blocked by a big landslide.
* Murghab River ( Tajikistan ), the river that rises in northeastern Afghanistan and flows into Tajikistan, through the Sarez Lake and on to the Bartang River
It located at the junction of the Murghab River and the Pamir Highway.
From there, it continues east for about 310 kilometers to Murghab, where it crosses the Murghab River.
In its upper reaches, it is known as the Murghab River and Aksu River ; it flows in the Wakhan in Afghanistan, then in the Roshan District of the Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan.
Below Murghab the river is called the Murghab River (: Мурғоб / مرغاب, meaning Bird River, also spelled as Murghob, Murgob, or Murgab ( from )).
Above that the Ghudara River and the Murghab Rivers join to form the Bartang.
Murghab and Afghanistan
– Murghab, Afghanistan
* FOB Todd, Murghab District, Badghis Province, Afghanistan
It rises in north-western Afghanistan and runs north-west towards the Murghab District, which takes it name from the river, and then the Kara Kum desert in Turkmenistan, where it peters out.
The Murghab originates in the center of Afghanistan, on a plateau situated among the chain of mountains of Safed Koh or Paropamisus to the south and that of Band-i Turkestan in the north.
Beyond Mukhamedkhan, a small portion of the water of the Murghab is used for irrigation ; approximately 10000 hectares are irrigated from the Murghab in Afghanistan.
The Murghab receives the waters of the Kaysar river on the right, then forms the border between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan over a 16 kilometer length.
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It was located in the valley of the river Murghab which has its sources in the mountains of Afghanistan, and passes through Murghab District in modern Afghanistan, and then reaches the oasis of Merv in modern Turkmenistan.
* Murghab District in Badghis Province, Afghanistan
* Murghab, Afghanistan
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), the valley of Murghab is narrow, measuring less than one kilometer in width, with steep slopes.
Murghab and river
It was in this period that a large dam ( the ' Soltanbent ') on the river Murghab was restored by a Persian nobleman, and the settlement which grew up in the area thus irrigated became known as ' Baýramaly ', by which name it is referred to in some 19th-century texts.
The city is an oasis in the Karakum Desert, located on the Murghab river.
In the territory of Turkmenistan, close to Takhta-Bazaar, the Murghab receives the Kachan river from the left bank, and 25 kilometers further, there is the confluence of the Kushk.
Murghab ( Tajik Мурғоб ; Russian Мургаб, from the Persian word مرغاب meaning " river of the birds ") is the capital of Murghob District in the Pamir Mountains of Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, Tajikistan.
Above Murghab a jeep road, of decreasing quality, follows the river southeast to Tokhtamish and Shaimak.
Over the following months the Murghab filled the space behind the Usoi to form Sarez Lake, which now fills about 60 kilometers in length of the Murghab river valley and contains 17 cubic kilometers of water.
The dam is formed of approximately of rock dislodged from the steeply sloped river valley of the Murghab, which cuts from east to west through the high and rough Pamir Mountains.
Murghab and Turkmenistan
The flow of Murghab was observed during 50 years ( 1936-1985 ) at Takhta-Bazaar, a location in Turkmenistan about thirty kilometers after the Murghab leaves the Afghan territory, and a score of kilometers upstream of the confluence with the Kushk.
River and Afghanistan
The land inhabited by the Afghan tribes ( i. e. ancestors of Pashtuns ) was called Afghanistan, which loosely covered a wide area between the Hindu Kush and the Indus River, principally around the Sulaiman Mountains.
It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan.
" According to Catherine Jarrige of the Centre for Archaeological Research Indus Baluchistan at the Musée Guimet in Paris: "… the Kachi plain and in the Bolan basin ( are ) situated at the Bolan peak pass, one of the main routes connecting southern Afghanistan, eastern Iran, the Balochistan hills and the Indus River valley.
For example, the mountain ranges along the western border with Afghanistan are sometimes described separately from the Balochistan Plateau, and on the eastern border with India, south of the Sutlej River, the Thar Desert may be considered separately from the Indus Plain.
South of the northern highlands and west of the Indus River plain are the Safed Koh Range along the Afghanistan border and the Sulaiman Range and Kirthar Range, which define the western extent of the province of Sindh and reach almost to the southern coast.
Bactria was located in northern Afghanistan ( present-day Afghan Turkestan ) between the mountain range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya ( Oxus ) River and some areas of current south Tajikistan.
Most of the southern border with Afghanistan is set by the Amu Darya ( darya is the Persian word for river ) and its tributary the Panj River ( Darya-ye Panj ), which has headwaters in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
In mid-2005 construction began on a bridge across the Panj River to Afghanistan which was funded by the United States and opened in August 2007, and plans called for construction of several other bridges ultimately connecting Tajikistan to warm-water ports to the south.
After a friendship treaty in 1750 between Ahmad Shah Durrani of Afghanistan and Mohammad Murad Beg of Bukhara, the Amu Darya ( Oxus River ) became the official border of Afghanistan.
In January 2007, with funding from the United States, Afghanistan and Tajikistan opened a bridge over the Pyanj River linking the two countries.
The main inland waterways are the Amu Darya River, which runs along the northern border, and the Garagum Canal, which runs from east to west from the Amu Darya near the Afghanistan border through Mary and Ashgabat to Turkmenbashi on the Caspian coast.
The chief inland waterway of land-locked Afghanistan is the Amu Darya River which forms part of Afghanistan's northern border.
Oldham and Jane Macintosh, while some Vedic scholars ( e. g. Kochhar 1999 ) believe the Helmand River of southern Afghanistan corresponds to the Sarasvati River.
In the younger Avesta, Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati, which gave its name to the present-day Hārūt River in Afghanistan, may have referred to the entire Helmand drainage basin ( the center of Arachosia ).
Suggestions for the identity of the early Rigvedic Sarasvati River include the Helmand River in Afghanistan, separated from the watershed of the Indus by the Sanglakh Range.
Lapis lazuli is found in limestone in the Kokcha River valley of Badakhshan province in northeastern Afghanistan, where the Sar-e-Sang mine deposits have been worked for more than 6, 000 years.
Flourishing around the Indus River basin, the civilization extended east into the Ghaggar-Hakra River valley and the upper reaches Ganges-Yamuna Doab ; it extended west to the Makran coast of Balochistan, north to northeastern Afghanistan and south to Daimabad in Maharashtra.
Today, the Pashtun homeland stretches from areas east of the Hindu Kush mountain range in Afghanistan to areas west of the Indus River in Pakistan.
The Hari River or Harirud ( Harī Rūd, sometimes Rudkhaneh-ye Hari Rud ) is a river flowing 1100 kilometers from the mountains of central Afghanistan to Turkmenistan, where it disappears in the Kara-Kum desert.
In western Afghanistan the Hari River flows to the south of Herat.
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