Araxes

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Synonyms for Araxes

a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea

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Some studies were reported that the egg diameters to be 0.96-1.35 in Rokytna River and 0.65-1.22 in Klikava Dam Lake (Libosvarsky, 1979), 0.58-1.03 in Sariyar Dam Lake (Ekmekci, 1996), 0.86-1.48 mm in Aksehir Lake (Altindag, 1997), 0.88-1.02 mm in Tozanli Stream (Karatas, 1997), 0.46-1.04 mm in Todurge Lake (Unver, 1998), 0.92-1.45 mm in Aras River (Turkmen et al., 1999), 0.38-0.71 mm in Topcam Dam Lake (Sasi, 2004), 0.70-0.88 mm in Karakaya Dam Lake (Kalkan et al., 2005) and 1.10-1.24 mm in Hafik Lake (Unver and Kekilli, 2012).
He pointed to the two countries' long-standing relations, and said, "Cleaning Aras River will make us happy." Babloya said that Iran-Armenia Parliamentary Friendship Group will be enacted in the Armenian parliament soon in line with promoting parliamentary ties between the two legislations.
Let us leave thousands of roses to Aras river and let peace pigeons fly," Turkan said and noted nobody could achieve anything by hatred.
A moat, which was filled by the Aras River, had been dug around the citadel to defend it against enemies.
In the last week of the Ahmadi-nejad Administration, it announced a plan to pipe water across the mountains from the Aras River, Iran's boundary with Azerbaijan and Armenia, to Lake Urumiyeh.
Aharounian also said that Iran and Armenia are due to build a 170mw power plant on Aras river which will provide 90mw of electricity to Iran and 80mw of electricity to Armenia.
From hydrological point of view, the study area comprises of Aras River basin originating from Turkey, Armenia, and Iran.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani underlined that Tehran and Yerevan should join hands to set up a working group to clean Aras River.
(Ahmadi-nejad wanted to pipe water in from the Aras River, the border between Iran and Azerbaijan.) Experts have also proposed the creation of new industries to reduce reliance on agriculture, which gobbles up water.
The investment will boost the bordering Aras River hydraulic power plant's capacity to 1.7 gigawatts per year.
The document envisages cooperation in construction of power plants at Khoda Afarin and Qiz Qalasi dams on Aras river as well as the construction of Ordubad power plant on the Azerbaijani side and Marazad power plant on the Iranian side.