The Dujayl Canal was a medieval irrigation canal providing water to
Baghdad. Originally it brought water from the
Euphrates
The Euphrates () is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia. Tigris–Euphrates river system, Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia ( ''the land between the rivers'') ...
, 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 river.
Sources
* , pp. 51, 65, 80, 85
Irrigation canals
Euphrates
Tigris River
Iraq under the Abbasid Caliphate
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