Balikh River

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The exposure also Balikh, Balich, Nahr Balih, Nahr Belîkh, Arabic نهر البليخ, DMG Nahr al- Balih; is a tributary of the Euphrates.

The expo runs to the east of the Euphrates and west of the Khabur. It rises in Turkey and flows near the Syrian city of al-Raqqa in the Euphrates. The small tributary has a discharge rate of an average of 6 cubic meters per second, with a maximum of 12 and a minimum of 5 cubic meters per second, which is less than one-tenth the amount of water of the Khabur.

In exposure valley lay in what is now Turkey, the historic city of Harran, 30 km south of the Syrian border was Tell Sabi Abyad and ar - Raqqa on the Euphrates the ancient Near East settlement mound Tuttul. In its lower reaches, the exposure has created a one kilometer wide valley, whose bottom lies 20 meters below the flat undulating desert steppe. Just before the confluence, the valley expands to a width of four kilometers. The exposure flowed earlier downstream on the Euphrates along until it culminated several kilometers south of al-Raqqa in the Euphrates. Its riverbed is now artificially shortened and is run on a direct path to the Euphrates.