1. D3 Euphrates

2. Or “of Trans-Euphrates.”

3. Book thrown into the Euphrates (59-64)

4. Northwestward they move, following the curve of the Euphrates.

5. He may have lived along the Euphrates River

6. The former is bisected by the Euphrates valley.

7. Cyrus fulfills prophecy by diverting the waters of the Euphrates

8. The capital of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River

9. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.” —Genesis 2:11-14.

10. They made their way northwest, following the great arc of the Euphrates River.

11. Her kingdom now stretched from the river Nile to the river Euphrates.

12. As far as its ability to protect Babylon is concerned, the mighty Euphrates evaporates.

13. (Genesis 11:31, 32) Then his household crossed the Euphrates River and headed south.

14. The distance from Jerusalem to the Euphrates River was some 300 miles (500 km).

15. From the moment that the waters of the Euphrates began to subside, Babylon was doomed!

16. The majority of settlements were concentrated in Lydia, northern Syria, the upper Euphrates and Media.

17. The Sassanids were driven back over the Euphrates and defeated in the Battle of Resaena (243).

18. When he reaches the Euphrates River at Thapsacus, he announces that he is marching against Artaxerxes II.

19. Both Isaiah and Jeremiah foretold that Babylon’s protecting waters, the river Euphrates, “must be dried up.”

20. The river Euphrates separated Rome from its eastern neighbor during the first 250 years of our Common Era.

21. Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

22. There, on what was then the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, Ur is a thriving city!

23. She and her son fled toward Persia, only to be captured by the Romans at the Euphrates River.

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

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

26. It was the lowering of the waters of the Euphrates that enabled Cyrus to gain access to the city.

27. 3 Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.

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

29. They connected the dense forests of Gaul with Greek cities and linked the Euphrates River with the English Channel.

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

31. Babylonia definition, an ancient empire in SW Asia, in the lower Euphrates valley: its greatest period was 2800–1750 b.c

32. Four angels are released from the vicinity of the Euphrates River, aptly picturing the release in 1919 of God’s anointed witnesses from Babylonian captivity.

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

34. And Babylonian mythology is mainly the projection into the heavenly sphere of the earthly fortunes of the early centres of civilization in the Euphrates valley.

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

36. IN THE dead of night, enemy soldiers advance stealthily along the bed of the Euphrates River toward their objective, the mighty city of Babylon.

37. Babylon's ruins are located in what is today Iraq, near the modern town of Hilla and on the eastern bank of the Euphrates river.

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

39. 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

40. The Antonine age is considered the apogee of the Empire, whose territory ranged from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates and from Britain to Egypt.

41. The Babylonians took their name from their capital and only major city, Babylon, located on the Euphrates River west of Sumeria and south of Assyria

42. An ancient city of SW Asia, on the Euphrates River, famed for its magnificence and culture: capital of Babylonia and later of the Chaldean empire

43. The city of Babylon, whose ruins are located in present-day Iraq, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port town on the Euphrates River

44. Aleppo is located at the crossroads of great commercial routes and lies some 60 miles (100 km) from both the Mediterranean Sea (west) and the Euphrates River (east).

45. In the 3rd century, the Roman frontiers weakened against the Germanic tribes across the Rhine and Danube, and the Sassanid Empire across the Euphrates increased its own attacks.

46. 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

47. 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

48. 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.

49. According to the International Standard Bible Commentary, Assyria “extended from Babylonia northward to the Kurdish mountains and at times included the country westward to the Euphrates and the Khabur.”

50. Aintab Sentence Examples Blanckenhorn the boundary between the two regions runs from the Bay of Jebele along the Afrin River to Aintab, and thence to the Euphrates above Birejik.

51. 11 To fulfill this prophecy, Jehovah put it into the mind of Cyrus the Persian to turn aside the waters of the Euphrates River and divert them into a local lake.

52. 19 The king of Egypt did not march out from his own country again, because the king of Babylon had taken all his territory, from the Wadi of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

53. Cappadocia The region known as Cappadocia in classical times was reaching the Black Sea to the north and the Taurus Mountains to the south, the Euphrates to the east and the Salt Lake to the west

54. It said that Babylon’s protecting waters, the river Euphrates, “must be dried up,” and that “the gates [of Babylon] will not be shut.”—Jeremiah 50:38; Isaiah 13:17-19; 44:27–45:1.

55. Babylonian EmpireType of GovernmentLocated on the banks of the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), the city-state of Babylon was the capital of two empires over the course of its long history

56. 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

57. 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.

58. 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.

59. It denotes the extreme north of the continent of Arabia which is thrust in like a wedge between the fertile lands which drain into the Euphrates on the East and into the Jordan valley on the West

60. The driving force of that empire was the Akkadians, so called after the city of Akkad, which Sargon chose for his capital (it has not yet been identified but was presumably located on the Euphrates between Sippar and Kish)

61. 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.

62. Amorite (Egyptian Amar, Akkadian Tidnum or Amurrukm (corresponding to Sumerian MAR.TU or Martu) refers to a Semitic people who occupied the country west of the Euphrates from the second half of the third millennium BC, and also the god they worshipped, Amurru.

63. On the north it is bounded by part of Syria, on the east by the Persian Gulf and the Euphrates, on the south by the Arabian Sea and the straits of Babelmandel, and on the west by the Red sea, Egypt, and Palestine.

64. It is the largest city in Syria, and is situated on a plateau in the northwest of the country, some 100 kilometres from both the Mediterranean to the west, and the Euphrates River to the east, a location that has kept Aleppo at

65. 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.

66. 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.

67. (Eze 16:4) In limited quantities salt is beneficial on certain acid soils or when mixed with manure, but if allowed to accumulate in the soil, it kills vegetation and the land becomes barren and unfruitful, as was the case with the once-fertile Euphrates Valley.

68. And it is foretold that at God’s command an angel “poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.” —Revelation 17:1, 5; 16:12.

69. The Biblical term Amorite was applied to those descendants of Canaan who resided in a portion of the territory known to the people of the Euphrates basin as Amurru (Sumerian: 𒈥𒌅, MAR.TU, "the land to the West") many centuries before the Israelites entered the Promised Land.

70. Amarnah (Arabic: تل العمارة ‎, romanized: Tal al-'Amārat; Kurdish: Emarnê ‎) or Amarine (Arabic: عمارنة ‎, romanized: Âmārenah), also referred to as Tal al-Amara is a village in northern Aleppo Governorate, northern Syria.Situated on the northern Manbij Plain, bordering the Jarabulus Plain's wetlands towards river Euphrates, the village is located about halfway between

71. Anciently the country on both sides of the Euphrates was habitable as far as the river Khabur; at the present time it is all desert from Birejik downward, the camping ground of Bedouin Arabs, the great tribe of Anazeh occupying esh-Sham, the right bank, and the Shammar the left bank, Mesopotamia of the Romans, now called elJezireh or the island.

72. 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.

73. Carol Edgarian is the author of the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize.Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many others.She is cofounder and editor of Narrative, a digital publisher of fiction, poetry, and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which