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Amara
Amara , town (1987 pop. 208,797), SE Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is a river port and a marketplace for rice, dates, grains, produce, wool, hides, and livestock. ... Read more
Amida
Amida , ancient city, E Asia Minor, on the Tigris River. It became (AD 230) a Roman colony and was later (4th cent.) captured by Shapur II of Persia. It is the modern Diyarbakir , Turkey. ... Read more
Tigris
Tigris , river of SW Asia, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) long, rising in the Taurus Mts., E Turkey, and flowing SE through Iraq to join the Euphrates River, with which it forms the Shatt al Arab. The Tigris is called the Hiddekil in the Bible. It flows swiftly and receives many tributaries, including the Di... Read more
Pearl
Pearl Chin. Zhujiang, river, 110 mi (177 km) long, S Guangdong prov., S China. Formed at Guangzhou by the confluence of the Xi and Bei rivers, it flows E then S past Guangzhou and Huangpu island to form a large estuary between Hong Kong and Macao. The river links Guangzhou to Hong Kong and the So... Read more
river
river stream of water larger than a brook or creek. Land surfaces are never perfectly flat, and as a result the runoff after precipitation tends to flow downward by the shortest and steepest course in depressions formed by the intersection of slopes. Runoffs of sufficient volume and velocity join t... Read more
Euphrates
Euphrates , Turkish Frat, Arabic Al Furat, river of SW Asia, c.1,700 mi (2,740 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Kara and the Murad rivers, E central Turkey, and flowing generally S through Turkey into Syria, then SE through Iraq, joining with the Tigris River in SE Iraq to form the Shat... Read more
Fertile Crescent
Fertile Crescent historic region of the Middle East. A well-watered and fertile area, it arcs across the northern part of the Syrian desert. It is flanked on the west by the Mediterranean and on the east by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and includes all or parts of Israel, the West Bank, Jordan,... Read more
Seleucia
Seleucia , ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris below modern Baghdad. Founded (c.312 BC) by Seleucus I, it soon replaced Babylon as the main center for east-west commerce through the valley. The city was the eastern capital of the Seleucids until the Parthians conquered it. The Seleucids then ... Read more
delta
delta [from triangular shape of the Nile delta, like the Greek letter delta ], a deposit of clay, silt, and sand formed at the mouth of a river where the stream loses velocity and drops part of its sediment load. No delta is formed if the coast is sinking or if there is an ocean or tidal current s... Read more
Manicouagan
Manicouagan , river, 310 mi (499 km) long, rising in E central Que., Canada, and flowing S to the St. Lawrence River near Baie Comeau. The river is an important source of hydroelectricity. ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Tigris River"

Tigris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...the Euphrates River, with which it...Shatt al Arab. The Tigris is called the...that rely on the river's resources. The Tigris is subject to...the banks of the Tigris, and the river served as an important...transportation route. The Tigris floodplain was... Read more
Boca Tigris
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition China: see Pearl , river. Read more
river
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...diminishing in popularity now that quantitative studies of river behavior are more common. See also flood ; water rights ; waters, territorial . Important River Systems River valleys have been important centers of civilization; they...to produce hydroelectric power. Among the most important river ... Read more
Euphrates
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...joining with the Tigris River in SE Iraq to form...running between the Tigris and Euphrates to serve as a route for river barges. In its upper...old castles. The river's lower course supplies...merging with the Tigris at Basra, Iraq, the... Read more
Zab
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...principal tributaries of the Tigris River. The Great Zab, 265 mi (426...generally S through Iraq to the Tigris. The Little Zab, 250 mi (402...flows SW through Iraq to the Tigris. Both rivers are extensively...irrigation, flood control on the Tigris, and hydroelectricity. Bakhma... Read more
Shatt al Arab
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , tidal river, 120 mi (193 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing SE to the Persian Gulf, forming part of the Iraq-Iran border; the Karun is its chief tributary. The...Arabs) who lived there. Restoration of the marshlands began in 2003, following the invasion of Iraq by ... Read more
Al Kut
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , town, SE Iraq, on the Tigris River. It is a port and a market center for grains, dates, fruit, and vegetables. There is a large barrage on the Tigris there diverting much of its water to regional irrigation canals (Shatt el Gharraf). Much of the town was destroyed during World... Read more
Diyala
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , river, c.275 mi (440 km) long, rising as the Sirvan River in NW Iran and flowing SW through the Zagros Mts. into E Iraq, where it enters the Tigris River S of Baghdad. The Diyala is unnavigable, but its valley is an important trade route between... Read more
Karkheh
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , ancient Choaspes, river, c.350 mi (560 km) long, rising in the Zagros Mts...Khuzestan lowland, where it forms a swamp bordering the Tigris River. An ancient storage dam on the river at Shush made Khuzestan one of the most prosperous agricultural... Read more
Ma'dan(Marsh Arabs)
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...Marsh Arabs LOCATION: Iraq (marshes at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers) POPULATION: Unknown LANGUAGE: Arabic...Marsh Arabs inhabit the marshy area at the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. They are a seminomadic tribal...Ma'dan live are created by the annual flooding of the ... Read more

Dictionary entries related to "Tigris River"

Tigris
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Tigris (Turkish: Dicle; Arabic: Dijlah), Turkey‐Syria‐Iraq A river whose Arabic name comes from the Old Persian name Tigra ‘Arrow’, an acknowledgement that it has a faster flow than its sister river, the Euphrates. Read more
Shaṭṭ al‐'Arab
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...x1E6D; al‐'Arab, Iraq A river formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers with...x1E6D;ṭ refers to the river itself to mean ‘River of the Arabs’. From...Rūd ‘Sublime River’. Read more
Assyria
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...ancient world, occupying a fertile area east of the River Tigris , corresponding to modern northern Iraq. In the city...on the Black Obelisk, found in 1846 at Calah on the River Tigris and now in the British Museum in London, that he received... Read more
Samarra
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Samarra a city in Iraq, on the River Tigris north of Baghdad; its 17th-century mosque is a place of Shiite pilgrimage. appointment in Samarra an unavoidable meeting with death... Read more
Baghdad
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Baghdad the capital of modern-day Iraq, on the River Tigris, which was a thriving city under the Abbasid caliphs, notably Harun of Chancery , in the 8th and 9th centuries. Read more
Mosul
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Mosul ( al‐Mawṣil ), Iraq Lying on the Tigris River, the name comes from the Arabic waṣala ‘to join’ or ‘to connect’, a reference perhaps to the... Read more
Nineveh
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Nineveh The capital of Assyria , on the eastern bank of the River Tigris , and once the most powerful city in the world; but it was captured by the Babylonians and Medes in 612 BCE. The city's end was... Read more
Euphrates
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...northernmost boundary of Israelite territory under David (2 Sam. 8: 3). Its waters irrigated the area towards the River Tigris and the land became the cradle of civilization. It is often referred to in the OT simply as ‘the river’. Read more
Hiddekel
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Hiddekel The name of the third river in Eden (Gen. 2: 14, AV; also Dan. 10: 4) and given its modern name ‘ Tigris ’ by NRSV, REB, and NJB). It is in modern Iraq. Read more
Mesopotamia
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Mesopotamia The land area between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates ; the southern part was held by babylonia and the northern by Assyria . The Code of Hammurabi (1792–1750 BCE) was found on a great stone at Susa, in modern Iran, and is now in Paris. Read more

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TURKEY'S APPROACH TO UTILIZATION OF THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS RIVERS.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...hydro-energy projects on the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers and their tributaries. With the...the riparian states of the Euphrates-Tigris river basin. The concepts of 'co-operation...basic users of the Euphrates and the Tigris Rivers in the near future, Turkey's...utilization the waters of the ... Read more
DEFINING THE POLITICAL/ECOLOGICAL THRESHOLD FOR THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS RIVERS.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Turkey's approach to the utilization of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers demonstrates the keen nationally focused attention...Continued disagreement over the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, as exemplified by Professor Tomanbay's article...principle of equity, for not only does it need water from the ... Read more
IRAQ: LOWERING OF THE WATER TABLE IN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 5/31/2001; 107 words ; ...country suffers from a lowering of the water table of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers as a result of the building of dams by...decrease in the amount of water reaching Iraq. The sources of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are in the Turkish mountains. The Euphrates River flows into Iraq after it passes ... Read more
SYRIA: BRITISH FINANCING FOR CONSTRUCTION OF TURKISH DAM ON TIGRIS RIVER.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 2/27/2001; 76 words ; ...Secretary to reconsider the British government's decision concerning the financing of the project for constructing a Turkish dam on the Tigris River. He added that construction of the dam would harm Syria and Iraq's rights over the Tigris waters. Read more
IRAQ: TIGRIS BANKS REINFORCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT WORKS.
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/19/2001; 76 words ; According to the Iktisad newspaper, in October 2000 the Ministry of Water and Irrigation completed phase 4 of the River Tigris banks reinforcement and development works. The newspaper quotes from a statement by Sumata Ka'itan, Executive Deputy... Read more
Not the Tigris.(Letter to the Editor)(Letter to the Editor)
Magazine article from: Soldiers Magazine; 4/1/2004; ; 153 words ; ...text reference to the completion of a bridge across the Tigris River. When I looked at the bridge in the picture, it took me...may be at Yusufiyah, the river is the Euphrates, not the Tigris! All of the Soldiers in my shop were, and I'm sure still... Read more
IRAQ: MESOPOTAMIAN ECOLOGICAL DISASTER WIPING OUT ASSYRIAN SETTLEMENTS.(Dam construction on the Tigris and Euphrates riverrs is opposed)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 9/2/2001; 166 words ; ...settlements, if the construction of 30 new dams along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is allowed to proceed. The United Nations...involves the building of more dams than the capacity of the Tigris and Euphrates and will be brought to the attention of the...the disappearance of water resources in and around the ... Read more
IRAQ: IRAQ RIVER PROJECT POSES ECOLOGICAL THREAT TO GULF.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database; 6/5/2000; 443 words ; ...Al-Shatt Al-'Arab River in Iraq, which is...confluence of the Tigris, Euphrates and Karun...been drained due to river diversion and the...canal linking the Tigris River to the central province...canal (the third river ) from Baghdad to...that flows from the Tigris and ... Read more
The Bekhme dam project in Kurdistan Iraq: a threat to the archaeology of the archaeology of the upper Zagros river valley.
Magazine article from: International Journal of Kurdish Studies; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...environment. Looking down river from a point near Amadia...reaches of the Greater Zab River, a major branch of the Tigris River, one is treated to a breath-taki...Rowanduz River, the Greater Zab River makes an abrupt right angle...to its confluence with the Tigris ... Read more
The river Ganges' long decline.
Magazine article from: World Watch; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...scientific as well as religious basis for the beliefs that this river can bring purification. Rivers continually purge themselves...rather than letting them settle to the bottom. (Damming a river reduces its flow, and hence obstructs its flushing capacity...and a high level of DO is normally a sign of a healthy ... Read more