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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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15. 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.

16. Or “of Trans-Euphrates.”

17. 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

18. 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.

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20. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

26. 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.

27. 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.

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

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

30. He may have lived along the Euphrates River

31. The former is bisected by the Euphrates valley.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

59. 15 Daniel, we recall, received these angelic messages on the bank of “the great river” Hiddekel, also known as the Tigris.

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

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

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

63. 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.

64. 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

65. 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

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

67. 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).

68. 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.

69. 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.

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

71. 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.

72. 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.

73. 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.

74. 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.”

75. 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.

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

77. 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.

78. 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.

79. 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.

80. 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