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Water has played an important role in the household, economic (agricultural) and military spheres in the Ottoman Empire and water issues have been in the spotlight of the authorities, which continues hitherto in the modern Republic of Turkey. The Ottoman Empire has faced a number of water challenges (supply of drinking water to cities, providing farmers with irrigation water and so on), and therefore began to build aqueducts, canal systems, cisterns, public fountainsand so on. But they weren’t large storage water structures, with only some exceptions in Istanbul.
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The English-language name Anatolia derives from the Greek Ἀνατολή (Anatolḗ) meaning “the East” and designating (from a Greek point of view) eastern regions in general.
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We think that it has two main reasons․ 1) In modern Iraq the Tigris surpasses Euphrates in terms of the volume of its flow, 2) Unlike the Euphrates, the Tigris flows through Baghdad, Central Iraq.
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Gabrielyan, H. (2024). Historical and Geographical Overviews of the Euphrates-Tigris and the Orontes Basins. In: Turkey's Water Policy as Part of the Political Strategy. Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im Spannungsverhältnis der Regionen Südosteuropa und Mittlerer Osten. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-44070-1_4
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