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Also known as 'Adhaim River

The ʿAdhaim (العظيم) is a river in Iraq that originates in the Zagros Mountains in Sulaymaniyah Governorate and joins the Tigris river after at , some downstream (east-to-southeast) of Samarra.

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Instance of
river
Country
Iraq
Continent
Asia
Image
Adhaim Dam Upstream Face.jpg
Length
230
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mouth of the watercourse
Tigris

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The ʿAdhaim (العظيم) is a river in Iraq that originates in the Zagros Mountains in Sulaymaniyah Governorate and joins the Tigris river after at , some downstream (east-to-southeast) of Samarra.

Its basin extends to . The river is fed by rainwater and peak discharge is between January and March.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “'Adhaim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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