Yarmouk River
Destroyed bridge over the Yarmuk
Template: Infobox River / Obsolete
The Yarmuk Yarmuk or (Arabic نهر اليرموك Nahr al- Yarmuk, DMG Food Fight ʾ l - Yarmuk, Hebrew נהר הירמוך Nahar haJarmuch, lat Hieromykes ) is the largest tributary of the Jordan. It forms the border between Syria and Jordan and just before the confluence with the Jordan between Israel and Jordan.
The headwaters of the Yarmuk arise at the lower southern slopes of Jabal al-Druze. The only two perennial (year-round water-bearing ) inflows on the Syrian side are the opening out of the north of Nahr el- PROFESSORS ( Nahr Harir ), the source of 0.2 m3/sec. Provides water, and Wadi Zeidi, whose highest sources around the lake at Mezerib ( Muzayrib, 11 kilometers northwest of Daraa ) lie. In the west and southwest of this village the Zaizun Waterfalls ( Shallalat Zaizun ) fall spectacularly into the Yarmuk gorge. The other northern tributaries run only during the rainy season in winter and spring water. A third tributary, Wadi esh - Shellaleh ( Shallah ) opens one of the south.
The dehydrated from the Yarmuk basin has an area of about 7000 square kilometers. The largest group are the volcanic basalt plain of Hauran on both sides of the border. In the further course towards the west of the Yarmuk crosses the landscape part of the Golan Heights (al- Dschaulān ), where he receives water from Nahr - he Rukkad, which rises at the foot of Mount Hermon, and from the Wadi water throughout the year leading Masud. At the transition from basalt plateau of the Hauran to the limestone formations of the southern Golan spring on both sides of the river most of the sources. The Yarmuk flows in cascades through a deep gorge; just before the junction with the limestone cliffs are up to 300 meters high.
With the approval of Israel, Jordan and Syria jointly build a dam located at Makaren, the Al- Wahda Dam ( " Dam of the unit "). With a 87 meter high dam wall to be dammed up to 110 million cubic meters of water. The height above the sea is 72 meters here, a few miles downriver at the waterfalls of Wadi Khaled ( a station of the Hedjaz Railway ) is the river like at sea level, which flows into the Jordan River is 250 meters below.
When the influence of Yarmouk in Jordan south of Tiberias at naharaim the first powerhouse Tel - Or ( " Lichtenberg ") was in the years from 1927 to 1932 built in what was then Palestine, of which today only the ruins after the destruction of the First Arab-Israeli war can be seen.
On 20 August 636, the Battle of Yarmuk took place in the Muslim Arabs the Eastern Roman troops of the Emperor Heraclius taught a decisive defeat.