The Awaj ( ar, نهر الأعوج ''Nahr al-A‘waj'', literally 'crooked') is a river in
Syria. It rises on the eastern slopes of
Mount Hermon
Mount Hermon ( ar, جبل الشيخ or جبل حرمون / ALA-LC: ''Jabal al-Shaykh'' ("Mountain of the Sheikh") or ''Jabal Haramun''; he, הַר חֶרְמוֹן, ''Har Hermon'') is a mountain cluster constituting the southern end of th ...
near
Arnah, flows east for to the south of
Damascus and terminates in the Buhairat al-Hijanah.
The river is usually identified as the Biblical
Pharpar Pharpar (or Pharphar in the Douay–Rheims Bible) is a biblical river in Syria. It is the less important of the two rivers of Damascus mentioned in the Book of Kings (2 Kings 5:12), now generally identified with the A‘waj (literally, 'crooked'), ...
, mentioned in the
Book of Kings.
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Water resources management in Greater Damascus Water management in Greater Damascus, a metropolitan area with more than 4 million inhabitants, is characterized by numerous challenges, including groundwater overexploitation, increasing water demand, intermittent supply, and pollution. These chal ...
Rivers of Syria
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