At the Kut Barrage much of the water is diverted into the Shatt al-Hayy, which was once the main channel of the Tigris.

The Kut Barrage was constructed in the city in the 1930s to provide irrigation water for the surrounding area.

Its purpose is to maintain a sufficiently high water level in the Tigris to provide water for the Gharraf irrigation canal, which branches off the Tigris just upstream from the Kut Barrage.

Before the construction of the Kut Barrage, the Gharraf canal only received water during periods of flood in the Tigris.

The water level in the canal is maintained by the Gharraf Head Regulator, which was constructed at the same time as the Kut Barrage.

The Kut Barrage was constructed between 1934 and 1939 by British firms.

In 2005, repairs and maintenance works were carried out at the Kut Barrage and the Gharraf Head Regulator for a total cost of US $ 3 million.

To make up for a lack of hard currency, Thailand's township, Amphoe Kut Chum, once issued its own local scrip called Bia Kut Chum: Bia is Thai for cowry shell, was once Baht, and is still current in metaphorical expressions.

The direct translation of the Chinese name of the building is " Central Centre " or the " centre of Central ", even though the building is in fact near the boundary of Central and Sheung Wan ( Wing Kut Street ).

The Vostok 2 landing site coordinates are, which is 11. 5 km South of Krasny Kut, Saratovskaya oblast in the Russian Federation.

Al-Kūt (; BGN: Al Kūt ; also spelled Kut-Al-Imara or Kut El Amara, ) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about south east of Baghdad.

It is the capital of the province long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.

The old town of Kut is within a sharp " U " bend of the river, almost making it an island but for a narrow connection to the shore.

The area around Kut is a fertile cereal grain growing region.

The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, looted following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is located near Kut.

Contingency Operating Base ( COB ) Delta is an American military installation located on the right bank of the Tigris directly across from Kut.

Among the famous people from Kut is Ahmed Muslim Eesa.

The relief attempt by Gorringe is usually termed the First Battle of Kut.

In British Army battle honours, the siege of Kut is named as " Defence of Kut Al Amara ".

It is bordered in the west by Sheung Wan, with the border being along Aberdeen Street and Wing Kut Street.

The Kut, a Korean shamanistic ritual, is the origin of all Korean oral myths and is the prime mechanism for handing down myths to successive generations.

It had successfully repulsed an attack on Istanbul in the Gallipoli Campaign and on Baghdad in the Siege of Kut.

After a failed attempt to move on Baghdad, stopped by the Ottomans at the bloody Battle of Ctesiphon, the British and their large contingent of Indian sepoy soldiers were forced to retreat to Kut, where the Ottomans under German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz laid siege.

Titov ejected from the capsule as planned and parachuted separately to land at 0718 UTC on 7 August 1961, near Krasny Kut, Saratov Oblast.

* The US launched Operation Desert Strike with a series of cruise missile attacks on Iraqi targets in Kut, Iskandariyah, Nasiriyah, and Tallil in response to Iraqi troops moving to the northern part of Iraq.

U. S. forces distribute information leaflets on the streets of Kut | Kut, Iraq

Townshend, with some 8, 000 surviving soldiers, finally surrendered Kut on April 29, 1916.

The British went back on the offensive in December 1916 with a larger and better-supplied force under General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude and reconquered Kut on February 23, 1917.

Situation at Kut on 28 September 1915.

The first attempt to relieve Kut ( the Battle of Sheikh Sa ' ad ) came on 6 January.

Advancing up the Tigris and winning the battles of Mohammed Abdul Hassan, Hai and Dahra in January 1917, recapturing Kut in February 1917, he took Baghdad on 11 March 1917.

The Alliance reacted by dispensing a reactionary force on 8 April to Kut, forcing al-Sadr followers to melt away into the city's population.

The Indian Army soon met with stiff opposition outside Baghdad, and were forced back to Kut on 4 December, where the city was besieged.

The 13th Division, as the strongest unit available, became the spearhead the Tigris Corps ' attempt to relieve the Kut garrison beginning on 6 April 1916.

On 12 December 1916, the division would advance from Sheik Sa ' ad on Kut.

The extreme points of the oblast's borders are: Bilosarayska Kosa ( spit ) on the south, Shevchenko of Velykonovosilkivskyi Raion on the west, Verkhnyi Kut of Shakhtarskyi Raion on the east, and Lozove of Krasnolymanskyi Raion on the north.

** The Great War battalions: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 ' 18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 17 ' 18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 ' 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 ' 18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell ' Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17

Maude arrived to catch the end of the British failure at the Siege of Kut where he was promoted to Lieutenant-General, replacing General George Gorringe as commander of the newly dubbed Tigris Corps ( III Indian Army Corps ) in July 1916.

Wassmuss was a consular official, and in the first days of February 1915 Wassmuss and a few followers sailed a river steamer named Pioneer down the Tigris River to a point some 65 kilometers below Kut al Amara in Mesopotamia ( a town about 160 kilometers southeast of Baghdad ).

On 29 April 1916, following the Tigris Corps ' failure to break the Turkish siege and the sinking of the steamer Julnar as it attempted to steam upriver past the Turkish defenders, the Kut garrison surrendered.

** Mesopotamia: Egypt 1916, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Bagdhad, Mesopotamia 1916-18

** Mesopotamia: Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18

** Mesopotamia: Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18

* First World War: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 ' 15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914 – 15, Egypt 1915, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916 – 18, Persia 1918, Baluchistan 1918

* First World War: La Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914-15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914 – 15, Egypt 1915, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916 – 18, Persia 1918, Baluchistan 1918, Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal, Egypt 1915 – 16, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1916 – 18, Persia 1916 – 1918, North West Frontier India 1915 – 17, Egypt 1915, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1918, Shaiba, Kut al Amara 1915 ' 17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Baghdad, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915-18,

** The Great War battalions: Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914 ' 18, Aisne 1914, La Bassée 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 17 ' 18, Langemarck 1914, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Loos, Somme 1916 ' 18, Albert 1916, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Thiepval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, Arras 1917 ' 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917 ' 18, Arleux, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917 ' 18, St Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Lys, Estaires, Messines 1918, Hazebrouck, Kemmel, Béthune, Scherpenberg, Soissonnais-Ourcq, Tardenois, Drocourt-Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Épéhy, St Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Courtrai, Selle, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Doiran 1917, Macedonia 1915-18, Egypt 1916, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell ' Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1915-17

* The Great War ( 6 battalions ): Mons, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, Messines 1914 ' 17, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914 ' 15 ' 17, Langemarck 1914 ' 17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Bosschen, Festubert 1914, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, St. Julien, Aubers, Somme, 1916 ' 18, Guillemont, Ginchy, St. Quentin, Bapaume 1918, Rosières, Hindenburg Line, Cambrai 1918, Selle, France and Flanders 1914-1918, Kosturino, Struma, Macedonia 1915-17, Suvla, Sari Bair, Scimitar Hill, Gallipoli 1915, Gaza, Jerusalem, Tell ' Asur, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mespotamia 1916-18

* The Great War: Mons, Le Cateau, Retreat from Mons, Marne 1914, Aisne 1914, 18, Armentières 1914, Ypres 1914, 15, 17, 18, Langemarck 1914, 17, Gheluvelt, Nonne Boschen, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Gravenstafel, St. Julien, Frezenberg, Heliewaarde, Aubers, Festubert 1915, Hooge 1915, Loos, Mount Sorrel, Somme 1916, 18, Albert 1916, 18, Bazentin, Delville Wood, Pozières, Guillemont, Flers-Courcelette, Morval, Le Transloy, Ancre Heights, Ancre 1916, 18, Bapaume 1917, 18, Arras 1917, 18, Vimy 1917, Scarpe 1917, 18, Arleux, Messines 1917, 18, Pilckem, Menin Road, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde, Poelcappelle, Passchendaele, Cambrai 1917, 18, St. Quentin, Rosières, Avre, Villers-Bretonneux, Lys, Hazebrouck, Bailleul, Kemmel, Bethune, Drocourt Quéant, Hindenburg Line, Havrincourt, Epehy, Canal du Nord, St. Quentin Canal, Beaurevoir, Kortrijk, Selle, Valenciennes, Sambre, France and Flanders 1914-18, Piave, Vittorio Veneto, Italy 1917-18, Doiran 1917, 18, Macedonia 1915-18, Kut al Amara 1915, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Khan Baghdadi, Mesopotamia 1914-18.