tigris in English

noun
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a river in southwestern Asia. It rises in the mountains of eastern Turkey and flows southeast for 1,150 miles (1,850 km) through Iraq, passing through Baghdad, to join the Euphrates River to form the Shatt al-Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf.

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3. However, heavy rains caused the Tigris to overflow.

4. The Assyrians dwelt in the region of the upper Tigris River

5. At Arbeia, Iraqi Bargemen from the Tigris patrolled the Tyne

6. Cicero watches the duel between Maximus Decimus Meridius and Tigris of Gaul.

7. Next, Alexander turned northeast, moving through Palestine and toward the Tigris River.

8. These include the Tigris, and its tributaries Hezil and Kızılsu, and also Çağlayan.

9. Yeah, I took the Tigris through the Nile, and there was absolutely no traffic.

10. Assyrian lands referred to the region on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia

11. The city was built on the shore of the Tigris probably in 307 or 305 BC.

12. The Cushites appear to have spread along tracts extending from the higher Nile to the Euphrates and Tigris

13. The resulting peace settlement gave the Romans control of the area between the Tigris and the Greater Zab.

14. Occupying territories along the Tigris, Aramaean groups start to settle in Babylonia's countryside, taking control of it

15. Babylonia rests on a flat plain with the two large rivers flowing through it, the Tigris and Euphrates

16. 15 Daniel, we recall, received these angelic messages on the bank of “the great river” Hiddekel, also known as the Tigris.

17. The Assyrians The Ancient Assyrians who Conquered Samaria The Assyrians dwelt in the region of the upper Tigris River

18. Some major battles in the First Opium War were fought here and on the waters of the Bocca Tigris.

19. Further North lay the city of Ashur on a rocky promontory overlooking an important crossing of the River Tigris.

20. 3 Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.

21. The fortress city of Hatra, on the Tigris in his rear, continued to hold out against repeated Roman assaults.

22. The rich alluvial plain built up by silt from the flooding Euphrates and Tigris Rivers provided the natural material needed.

23. This is because the overflowing waters of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers flooded the region annually, creating a marshy “sea.”

24. Babylonia, ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf).

25. The most ancient cities were built on alluvial plains, such as that between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where intensive agriculture was possible.

26. The ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a complex system of canals and levees to divert water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for irrigation.

27. Carp is a bottom-feeding fish, and the Tigris is a waterway teeming with industrial refuse and the sewage of towns along its path.

28. Intensive irrigation agriculture of the lower Tigris and Euphrates and of tributaries such as the Diyala and Karun formed the main resource base of the Sassanid monarchy.

29. Babylonia is a plain which is made up of the alluvial deposits of the mountainous regions in the North, where the Tigris and Euphrates have their source

30. Assyria can be found at the north part of Mesopotamia with two symbolic rivers running through it, the Tigris and the Euphrates along with many tributaries

31. The Assyrians were one of the major peoples to live in Mesopotamia during ancient times. They lived in northern Mesopotamia near the start of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

32. Iraq's Tourism Board is also seeking investors to develop a "romantic" island on the River Tigris in Baghdad that was once a popular honeymoon spot for newlywed Iraqis.

33. Abu Nawas was lined with fish restaurants that overlooked the Tigris; as I passed, men held up chunks of masgouf, their beloved bony fish, and asked me to join.

34. But Chordates do have many amazing species.The white tiger (Panthera tigris) is a chordate.The tiger is also from the class Mammalia, order Carnivora, and family Felidae, meaning it is a meat-eating cat.

35. Some librarians escape, and over the course of days and weeks, they dip the stones into the Tigris and suck up that collective wisdom that we all think is lost to civilization.

36. The Assyrian homeland was located near a mountainous region, extending along the Tigris as far as the high Gordiaean or Carduchian mountain range of Armenia, sometimes known as the "Mountains of Ashur".

37. Assyria [N] [T] [H] the name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the original capital of the country, was originally a colony from Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom.

38. Basra is situated on the western bank of the Shaṭṭ Al-ʿArab (the waterway formed by the union of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) at its exit from Lake Al-Ḥammār, 70 miles (110 km) by

39. Geographically, Assyria occupies the northern and middle part of Mesopotamia, situated between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; while the southern half, extending as far south as the Persian Gulf, constitutes the countries of Babylonia and Chaldea.

40. Assyria "The name derived from the city Asshur on the Tigris, the" "original capital of the country, was originally a colony from" "Babylonia, and was ruled by viceroys from that kingdom

41. Centered on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia, the Assyrians came to rule powerful empires at several times, the last of which grew to be the largest and most powerful empire the world had yet seen

42. Babylonia was an ancient country in Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers; corresponding approximately to modern Iraq.Babylonia is the Greek form of the name babili – sometimes translated as gate of God – known from cuneiform texts.

43. It is generally believed that, anciently, the Tigris and Euphrates had separate entrances into the sea, but that over the centuries the accumulation of silt has filled in the head of the gulf so that now the rivers unite.

44. This city was founded on the Tigris by the second Abbaside Caliph Abou Giafar al Mansur (762 or 764) and named by him Medinet es-Selam, or City of Salvation; Bagdad is a popular name said to mean "Garden of Dat", a Mussulman dervish

45. The Arameans inhabited the Fertile Crescent (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) in the 14th century BCE, but did not begin seriously influencing the region until three centuries later, when they began to spread into southern Anatolia and northern Arabia, which were Assyrian territories.

46. The first Abbasid ruler governed from Kufa (modern-day Iraq), but al-Mansur moved the capital to Baghdad for one practical reason: it was the center of the trade route that crisscrossed the Euphrates and Tigris, as well as the caravan route from Syria and Egypt.

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48. Basra, port in southern Iraq, on the Shaṭṭ al-Arab, the outlet into the Persian Gulf of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates.Jews settled there under the *Umayyad regime and one of the nine canals near the town is called Nahr al-Yahūd ("River of the Jews")

49. Armenia (land of Aram) is nowhere mentioned under that name in the original Hebrew, though it occurs in the English version, (2 Kings 19:37) for Ararat.Description.--Armenia is that lofty plateau whence the rivers Euphrates, Tigris, Araxes and Acampsis pour down their waters in different directions; the first two to the Persian Gulf, the last two respectively to the Caspian and Euxine seas.