Sly River
River in Algeria
The Sly River is a river in northern Algeria, North Africa.
The Sly River is a tributary of the Chelif River and joins the Chelif just east of the town of Sidi ben Thiour.
In the early 1900s, a barrage was built across the Sly, with the capability of irrigating 10,000 acres.
The public source identifies “Sly River” as river in Algeria. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around River and Algeria.
Why this record matters
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28223378. Authority coordinates are 36.097, 1.136. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Sly River” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.