The Dujayl Canal was a medieval irrigation canal providing water to

Baghdad Baghdad ( or ; , ) is the capital and List of largest cities of Iraq, largest city of Iraq, located along the Tigris in the central part of the country. With a population exceeding 7 million, it ranks among the List of largest cities in the A ...

. Originally it brought water from the

Euphrates The Euphrates ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of West Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia (). Originati ...

, but by the end of the 10th century its connection to that river had silted up, and a new connection was dug to the

Tigris The Tigris ( ; see #Etymology, below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian Desert, Syrian and Arabia ...

river.

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* , pp. 51, 65, 80, 85 Irrigation canals History of the Tigris–Euphrates river system Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate Canals in Iraq {{Baghdad-stub