Lower Euphrates and Tigris Marshes Environmental Studies Term Paper
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The marshlands are part of a key international river system, the Tigris and Euphrates, which is the largest river system in southwest Asia and is one of the great cradles of civilization. The Mesopotamian Marshlands consisted of an intricate web of inter-connected marshes, shallow freshwater lakes, and seasonally inundated floodplains spanning an area of, until recently, 15, 000 km2.