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Tigris–Euphrates river system (2,910 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf. Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries. From their sources and upper courses

Iraqi literature (712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

such cultures occupied in the Middle East between the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Sumerian literature is unique due to the fact that the

Lower Mesopotamia (544 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Near Hamrin Mountains and extends to the Persian Gulf. Here the Tigris and Euphrates lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area

Water conflict (6,540 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

living downstream that rely on both the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers with no water. The Tigris and Euphrates River GAP project, which consists of (1.7

Geography of Iraq (4,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

desert (west of the Euphrates), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers), the northern highlands of Iraq, Lower Mesopotamia, and the

List of dams and reservoirs in Iraq (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Adhaim Dam Badush Dam Bekhme Dam Darbandikhan Dam Dibis Dam Diyala Weir Duban Regulator Duhok Dam Dukan Dam Fallujah Barrage Haditha Dam Hemrin Dam Hindiya

Ikaros (Failaka Island) (448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

is located 50 kilometres (31 mi) southeast of the spot where the Tigris and Euphrates empty into the Persian Gulf. For thousands of years, the island served

Hawizeh Marshes (715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have been populated for more than 5,000 years. They are fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq and the Karkhen River in present-day Iran

Al-Qurnah (1,554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

conglomeration of Nahairat. Qurna is located at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to form the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Local folklore holds Qurnah

Aram-Naharaim (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

later used the name "Mesopotamia" for all of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates. However, the usage of the Hebrew name "Aram-Naharaim" does not match

Haffar (190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

waterway (known as Arvand Rud in Iran), the joint estuary of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The extra water from the Karun, which, at times during the

Capture of Baghdad (1534) (298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Baghdad's capture was a significant achievement given its mastery of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their international and regional trade. It represented

Karkheh Dam (465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marshes is affected by the torrential sediments of rivers such as Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq and Karkheh in Iran. Karkheh dam caused to decline the quantity

HMS Gnat (T60) (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

during the First World War as part of a flotilla operating on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After the war, the vessel was transferred to China, where

Ašipu (476 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

were scholars and practitioners of diagnosis and treatment in the Tigris and Euphrates valley (now Iraq) around 3200 BC. Sumerian and Akkadian ritual and

Middle East steppe (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Iraq to the western border of Iran. The upper plains of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers dominate most of the ecoregion. The terrain is mostly open

Kuphar (1,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

etc.) is a type of coracle or round boat traditionally used on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in ancient and modern Mesopotamia. Its circular shape means

Maserati Shamal (1,019 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

areas of Mesopotamia, particularly in the large plain between the Tigris and Euphrates. With its newly developed twin-turbocharged V8, the Shamal was Maserati's

Geography of Mesopotamia (2,426 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the

Shatt al-Arab (2,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

waterway formed relatively recently in geological time, with the Tigris and Euphrates originally emptying into the Persian Gulf via a channel further to

Yiwa (tribe) (297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

moved from Central Asia to Western Iran and the upper reaches of Tigris and Euphrates in the 13th century. The capital of Suleyman Shah became the city

Median Wall (170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

city of Babylon at a point where the distance between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates decreases considerably. It was believed to have been constructed

Mesopotamian shrub desert (399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eastern portion of the ecoregion includes central Mesopotamia, and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run through it. The ecoregion has an arid subtropical climate

Nahrain University (561 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Nahrain" meaning The Two Rivers (as in the two rivers of Iraq: Tigris and Euphrates). With two campuses in central Baghdad, Nahrain University is widely

Mesopotamia, Oxford (244 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

means "between the rivers", and is shared with an area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in present-day Iraq. The land was purchased by the University

Mesopotamian Marshes (3,620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

divided into three major areas, the Central Marshes lie between the Tigris and Euphrates, while the Hammar Marshes lie south of the Euphrates and the Hawizeh

Khwarwaran (1,070 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Sasanian Empire. Intensive irrigation agriculture of the lower Tigris and Euphrates and of tributaries such as the Diyala and the Karun formed the empire's

Battle of Qarqar (1,301 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

campaign, leaving Nineveh on the 14th day of Iyar. He crossed both the Tigris and Euphrates without incident, receiving the submission and tribute of several

Amarah (1,259 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Iran. It lies at the northern tip of the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates. It had a population of about 340,000 in 2002, 420,000 in 2005, and

Garden of Eden (5,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in Armenia. Others theorize that Eden

Cyprinion kais (131 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

genus Cyprinion. It is found in the drainage basins of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and was also found in the Queiq system but it appears to have been

River valley civilization (1,026 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

signs of the existence of states in the Near East. Located along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in West Asia, the name later given to that civilization, Mesopotamia

20 Battery Royal Artillery (2,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from across Great Britain, he set out with the two small steamers Tigris and Euphrates, which he dismantled and carried across the desert to the rivers

Glyptothorax (1,769 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indo-China to Java, Indonesia. They are found in Asia Minor (in the Tigris and Euphrates River drainages) and southwards to Southeast Asia. The genus is very

Ninurta (4,187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Asag using his talking mace Sharur and uses stones to build the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to make them useful for irrigation. In a poem sometimes referred

Culture of Iraq (3,555 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the most influential cultures in the world. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as

Near Eastern archaeology (938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by several seas and includes parts of Northern Mesopotamia. The Tigris and Euphrates rise in Turkey and flow south into Iraq. Cyprus (ancient Alashiya)

List of ecoregions in Iran (210 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Drainages Namak Northern Hormuz Drainages Orumiyeh Lower Tigris and Euphrates Upper Tigris and Euphrates Turan Plain Upper Amu Darya Olson, D. M., Dinerstein

Theophilus of Antioch (2,936 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to Autolycus) indicate that he was born a pagan, not far from the Tigris and Euphrates, and was led to embrace Christianity by studying the Holy Scriptures

List of ecoregions in Iraq (137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert Arabian Interior Lower Tigris and Euphrates Upper Tigris and Euphrates Persian Gulf Olson, D. M., Dinerstein, E., Wikramanayake

Failaka Island (3,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Failaka Island is located 50 km southeast of the spot where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers empty into the Persian Gulf. For thousands of years, the island

Beth Nahrain (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that Beth Nahrain specifically referred to the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A more accurate Syriac variant is the name Bêṯ Nahrawwāṯā

Khawr Abd Allah (760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that point, it links by canal again to the northwest and into the Tigris and Euphrates proper. It forms the northeastern coastline of Jazirat Bubiyan and

William Wallace Allison Burn (1,221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reconnaissance flights in support of the operations of the IEF on the Tigris and Euphrates. His aircraft was forced down with mechanical problems while on a

Bala taxation (1,083 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

because the agriculture in this area was irrigated by water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Those projects were built by Gurush/Geme (Sumerian), men

Battle of Es Sinn (4,104 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

allowed for the capture of Kut, and with it control over the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers, by British forces the following day. After consolidating

Talmudic academies in Babylonia (3,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

academies, which were mainly situated in an area between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and primarily between Pumbedita (modern Fallujah, a town west of

Fertile Crescent (3,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the surrounding portions of Turkey and Iran. In addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, riverwater sources include the Jordan River. The inner boundary

Iraq (16,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the 6th millennium BC, the fertile alluvial plains between Iraq's Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, referred to as the region of Mesopotamia, gave rise to some

Apamea (Babylonia) (618 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

It cannot be at Korna, as some suppose, e.g., Ptolemy, where the Tigris and Euphrates meet, for both Stephanus and Pliny place Apamea at the point where

Rafetus (424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Igor G. Danilov (2009) Rafetus euphraticus: had been found at Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Khūzestān Province of Iran. The

Motoko Arai (886 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1999, Arai returned to the science fiction genre with her novel, Tigris and Euphrates, which details a society's plan to populate a new world with artificially

Shamshi-Adad I (2,265 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have been "King of the Universe" and "Unifier of the Land Between Tigris and Euphrates". He asserted that the king of the Upper Land had paid tribute to

First Sealand dynasty (2,920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

gradually expanded southwards with the silting up of the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (the region known as mat Kaldi "Chaldaea" in the Iron Age)

Tala, Cyprus (346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

representing the sources of three rivers, perhaps the Jordan, Tigris, and Euphrates. The Gospels and church plate are Russian. About a mile from the

Kurna (disambiguation) (113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

in Crete, Greece Qurnah, village in Iraq at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq West Qurna Field, one of Iraq's largest

Transport in Iraq (596 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

about 130 km. The channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use. The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft; the

Middle East (7,720 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

agriculture in limited areas here, such as the Nile Delta in Egypt, the Tigris and Euphrates watersheds of Mesopotamia, and the basin of the Jordan River that

Two Rivers (332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Land of the Two Rivers or The Two Rivers, referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers Two Rivers High School (disambiguation), several schools Two

Gavin Young (532 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He fashioned his experiences into a book, Return to the Marshes

Climate change in Iraq (3,424 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

annual temperatures will increase by 2°C by 2050. The flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which provide 98% of Iraq's surface water, has decreased

Gihon (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

encompassed a Mesopotamian area that is repeatedly flooded by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This view has some support from Herodotus, who thought there

Action of Khan Baghdadi (500 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Khan al Baghdadi. Most battles in Mesopotamia had been tied to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. If an attack was successful, the loser would withdraw along

List of ecoregions in Turkey (276 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Northern Anatolia Orontes Southern Anatolia Thrace (freshwater) Upper Tigris and Euphrates Western Anatolia Western Transcaucasia Aegean Sea Black Sea Levantine

Raw material (1,297 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

materials. Without the presence of clay on the riverbanks of the Tigris and Euphrates in the Fertile Crescent, such kilns would have been impossible for

Mesopotamian campaign (6,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the landings, Allied forces won a string of victories along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, including repulsing an Ottoman attempt to retake Basra at

Dilmun (3,046 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rivers" where Dilmun was said to lie is for her the union of the Tigris and Euphrates at Qurnah. A number of scholars have suggested that Dilmun originally

Iraq Campaign Medal (1,283 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relief of the map of Iraq, surmounted by two lines representing the Tigris and Euphrates rivers throughout, superimposed over a palm wreath. Above is the

Ramadi Barrage (146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2015. Retrieved 27 February 2012. "Managing Water For Peace: The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers". United Nations University. Retrieved 27 February 2012. Wikimedia

Qurnah disaster (898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shipwreck at Al-Qurnah (modern Iraq), at the confluence point of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It represents one of the most high profile disasters in the

Stylus (1,072 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

styli in various materials: reeds that grew on the sides of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and in marshes and down to Egypt where the Egyptians used

Iraq (disambiguation) (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

al-'Arabi Upper Mesopotamia, northern part of the region between Tigris and Euphrates Iraq, an alternate name of Arak, Iran, a city in Markazi Province

Akkadian Empire (10,570 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

both of which were localized in the general confluence area of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Although the city of Akkad has not yet been identified on

609 BC (182 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jehoiakim. The Persian Gulf recedes by a large portion, extending the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by 187mi (300km). Ashur-uballit II (probably), last king of

Hieros gamos (924 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility and warfare. Along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers there were many shrines and temples dedicated to Inanna. The

West Asia (3,806 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

000 km2 (35,000 sq mi) across West Asia for agriculture. Also, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers contribute very well. West Asia is primarily arid and semi-arid

Mesopotamia (10,458 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Zagros Mountains and from the Armenian Highlands, the source of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that give the region its name. The usefulness of irrigation

Taybat al-Imam (427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

structures. Other images depicted include the scene of Paradise, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the churches of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the basilica of

197 (405 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris and Euphrates. Legio I, II, and III Parthica are levied by Septimius Severus for

Liber Memorialis (466 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chapter V De Orbe Terrarum (The World), Ampelius refers to the "Tigris and Euphrates in Parthia," which suggests that Ampelius wrote before the Sassanians

Battle of Dujaila (3,228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

designated Indian Expeditionary Force D, had advanced up both the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Originally dispatched to capture the Shatt al Arab and Basra

Gilit Mesopotamian Arabic (707 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mesopotamia and Lower Mesopotamia. The isogloss is between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, around Fallujah and Samarra. During the Siege of Baghdad (1258)

Mesopotamian Arabic (1,109 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mesopotamia and Lower Mesopotamia. The isogloss is between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, around Fallujah and Samarra. During the Siege of Baghdad (1258)

Bit Adini (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Assyrians attacked Bit Adini by crossing the Calah region between the Tigris and Euphrates. Ahuni, the then ruler of the kingdom, submitted and gave tribute

Al-Gharraf River (337 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Turks or the Anglo-Indian Force to transport troops between the Tigris and Euphrates and vice versa. By 20 May 1916 the British occupied the right (south)

Iraq Commitment Medal (1,252 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Iraq represents the area of operation. The lines symbolize the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, recalling Iraq’s title as “the land of two rivers.” The two

John Felix Jones (503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Jones, who continued for several years the examination of the Tigris and Euphrates. Consequent on the disputes between Persia and Turkey in 1843, Jones

Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes (2,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

series of sluices, embankments and canals on the lower ends of the Tigris and Euphrates that would drain water for agriculture. These notably included the

Taurus Mountains (1,235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ancient Syrians to be the work of the storm-god Adad to make the Tigris and Euphrates rivers rise and flood and thereby fertilise their land. The Hurrians

Nazım Pasha (781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Iraqi Society (in Arabic). Baghdad: House and Library of the Tigris and Euphrates. ISBN 9780773451209. OCLC 213318073. Fieldhouse, David (17 April

Boann (1,508 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

other countries, including the River Severn, Tiber, Jordan River, Tigris and Euphrates. Additionally, it mentions alternate names for various parts of the

George A.W. Lamond (302 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

where he was engaged in building the new Port of Basra over the Tigris and Euphrates. He fell ill with a fever and was sent to Sri Lanka to recover, but

Matelda (1,794 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Triumphant. They head towards Eunoe, which Dante mistakes for the Tigris and Euphrates. After Dante asks Beatrice for the name of the water, Beatrice finally

Wadi al-Batin (518 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

situated at the head of the Persian Gulf (present-day Iraq), where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his research on this area using information

Farman Aviation Works (1,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

airboats from Farman and Charles de Lambert's company for use on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Farman Aircraft began producing civilian airboats in the

River (6,527 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that flow to provide water to the world. These rivers include the Tigris and Euphrates, and two rivers that are possibly apocryphal but may refer to the

Assyria (Roman province) (1,102 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

scholars argue that the Assyria Provincia was located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in present-day central Iraq, a location that is corroborated

Lake Tharthar (641 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Tigris River during flood seasons and to recharge water to the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers during dry seasons, when there is shortage of water in both

Sumer (12,485 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Carpathian Mountains, and Mesoamerica. Living along the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops

Environmental issues in Iraq (973 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

degradation and ecological changes in Iraq are dams situated on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. These dams lead to low water levels, sediment buildup, erosion

Battle of Qurna (835 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

position at the small town of Qurna to the north. Since both the Tigris and Euphrates join at Qurna, it made for an ideal position to make a stand, since

Shar-Kali-Sharri (2,941 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

inscription (HS 195) he also marked, after visiting the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the giving of a cult object to Enlil at Nippur. "The god

Aram, son of Shem (1,226 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by the descendants of Aram included all of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers "to the north of the Chaldees to the border of the mountains

North Mesopotamian Arabic (990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mesopotamia and Lower Mesopotamia. The isogloss is between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, around Fallujah and Samarra. During the Siege of Baghdad (1258)

Debate between bird and fish (648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mesopotamia and dwelling places for humans; for water for the fields, the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, and the marshes, marshland, grazing lands for humans, and

Tektek Mountains (967 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

northern border of the Urfa-Harran plain, between the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Reaching an altitude of 801 meters (2,628 ft), this spur

Freshwater marsh (2,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marshlands are located in southern Iraq and Iran. The confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers create the Mesopotamian Marshlands. The Mesopotamian Marshlands

Samarra Barrage (280 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

February 2012.[permanent dead link] "Managing Water For Peace: The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers". United Nations University. Retrieved 27 February 2012. Iraq

Mostogradnja (782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Europe, Asia and Africa. These included a series of bridges over Tigris and Euphrates in Iraq. By the early 1980s, Mostogradnja had 5,000 employees and

Hadrianopolis in Paphlagonia (530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

decorated with mosaics and have images of the rivers of Gihon, Pishon, Tigris and Euphrates imprinted on them, which are mentioned in the Bible. Various animals

Annalong (1,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bringing about its eventual construction. He also proved that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were navigable, advocating the adoption of a route to India

Church of Alibeglo (129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Places: 912964 (Tigris/Diglitus fl.)". Pleiades. Managing the Tigris and Euphrates Watershed Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law "Historical

Aseel Hameem (340 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Al-Lail 2019: Hawa Baghdad 2019: Ahly W Nasy 2019: Kan Khaled 2021: Tigris and Euphrates 2022: Almas Maksoor 2022: Raheeq "Top 20 most viewed songs by Arabic

Ismail Fatah Al Turk (1,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Arabic Medicine, Baghdad, Bronze and Marble, 8 × 2 metres, 1982 Tigris and Euphrates, Haifa Street, Baghdad, 5 metres, 1982 Two Figures, bronze sculpture

Zahraa Ben Mime (299 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Year Name Arabic name role 2017 The vortex الدوامة Hala 2019 Hawa Baghdad هوى بغداد Shams 2021 Tigris and Euphrates: tales from Hawa Baghdad هوى بغداد

Uqair (2,574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

civilization lay only 300 miles north of Uqair at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Mesopotamia, a very fertile region north of this confluence

Khorramshahr (1,001 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bahmanshir channel) to the Shatt al-Arab (the joint estuary of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, known in Iran as Arvand Rud). The extra water made the joint

Ancient Egyptian agriculture (2,492 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was much more predictable and calm than other rivers, such as the Tigris and Euphrates, it was not always perfect. High floodwaters were destructive and

Barton Cylinder (1,429 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Finding yet another parallel with Genesis, Barton mentions that "The Tigris and Euphrates are twice spoken of as holy rivers – and the 'mighty abyss' (or 'well

Karun (1,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Roud at Khorramshahr, where its water, together with that of the Tigris and Euphrates, turns sharply southeast to flow to the Persian Gulf. The largest

Jebel Sasan (564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jebel Maqlub to the east. As moist air travels up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates it deposits moisture on the southern slopes of these hills, creating

Tigris (1,711 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Tigris/Diglitus fl.)". Pleiades. Retrieved March 9, 2012. Managing the Tigris and Euphrates Watershed Bibliography on Water Resources and International Law Peace

Kuwait Bay (1,286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the head of the Persian Gulf (present-day Kuwait), where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his research on this area using information

Sawad (8,285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the town of Qatr. According to Donald Hill, after about 1200, the Tigris and Euphrates started to gradually shift toward their present courses, which they

Water resources law (2,091 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the civilizations in the surrounding lands were dependent on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to survive. As a result, the leaders needed to develop intricate

Enūma Eliš (6,478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marduk with the aid of Aruru), as well as the creation of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, of land and plants, as well as the first houses and cities. Other

Iranian Arabs (2,063 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

west of the lower Euphrates river in southern Iraq and between the Tigris and Euphrates in northern Iraq. This stretch included Arvand Rud, which meets at

History of gardening (9,634 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

continue to develop. Mesopotamia, the "land between the Rivers" Tigris and Euphrates, comprises a hilly and mountainous northern area and a flat, alluvial

Northern Syria Buffer Zone (8,322 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

corridor" by some parties) would be established in the areas between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (notably excluding the Manbij area) in Northern Syria, totaling

Iraq–Turkey relations (5,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

public-works project (GAP project) aimed at harvesting the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers through the construction of 22 dams, for irrigation and hydroelectric

Muhammad ibn Ra'iq (1,493 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

had secured control over the Jazira—the "island" plain between the Tigris and Euphrates in upper Mesopotamia—while most of Iran was ruled by Daylamite warlords

Tourism in Balochistan, Pakistan (1,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ancient civilization of Babylon through Iran and into the valleys of Tigris and Euphrates. Alexander the Great (326 BC) had an encounter with the Sibia tribe

Abdul Qadir Al Rassam (1,203 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

everyday life in Iraq and landscapes, especially of area around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. A collection of his work is in The Pioneers Museum, Baghdad

Tahini (1,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

about the cultivation of sesame 3,500 years ago in the region of the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia. It was mainly used as a source of oil. Tahini is

Hydroelectricity in Turkey (4,246 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comparison, 56 billion kWh was generated. Due to climate change in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins, reduced precipitation is forecast, such as happened

Mashoof (1,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

giood or anya, are used for navigating large waterways like the Tigris and Euphrates and Shatt al-Arab. Giood often have sails, a ship's wheel, and a

Juris Zarins (1,152 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the head of the Persian Gulf (present-day Kuwait), where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his research on this area using information

Bilulu (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sources as a deity associated with various sources of water, including Tigris and Euphrates. Julia M. Asher-Greve suggests that the theonym Bilulu is older,

Bilulu (984 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sources as a deity associated with various sources of water, including Tigris and Euphrates. Julia M. Asher-Greve suggests that the theonym Bilulu is older,

Confluence (3,528 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Iraq at the town of Al-Qurnah is the confluence of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, forming the Shatt al-Arab. At Devprayag in India, the Ganges River

List of cities and towns on the Euphrates River (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Map of the Tigris and Euphrates watershed.

Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station (822 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

complex of canals, sluices and dikes on the lower portions of both the Tigris and Euphrates. In 1953, construction began on the Main Outfall Drain, also known

Geostrategy (5,836 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

river valleys of the Nile in Egypt and the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia. The Nile and Tigris and Euphrates not only provided the fertile soil for crop

St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth (1,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paradise window is particularly fine, depicting the Pishon, Gihon, Tigris and Euphrates. The window was donated by Charles Henry Crompton-Roberts, of Drybridge

Therapeutic garden (2,935 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

agricultural plots lay in the fertile river valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates providing agriculture and inspiration for the first designed gardens

E. S. Drower (1,373 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1917. Magdalene: A Study in Methods, London, Cassell, 1919. By Tigris and Euphrates, London, Hurst & Blackett, 1923. Sophy: A Tale of Baghdad, London

Rim-Sîn I (543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rim-Sin. He defeated them, then occupied Pi-Naratim (the mouths of the Tigris and Euphrates) in 1807, Zibnatum in 1805, Bit-Susin and Uzarbara in 1804, and Kisarra

Abu'l-Saraya (1,361 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

forces, and confronted the rebel army across the canal linking the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Harthama moved against the rebels on the day after Eid al-Fitr

Sailfin molly (1,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

where it thrives in the Persian Gulf waters at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river deltas, threatening to outcompete many killifish species endemic

List of World Heritage Sites in Iraq (1,024 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marshlands of Mesopotamia: Situated around the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, the marshlands covered a vast area in southern Iraq and were home

Land loss (2,073 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Persian Gulf. The river itself is formed by the joining of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. A decrease in freshwater entering the river due to irrigation

John Nixon (Indian Army officer) (1,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

allocated. From January 1915 until November, the British advanced up the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The furthest advance was by General Townshend's 6th (Poona)

Ibbi-Sin (951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Studies of Persian Gulf sediments indicate that the stream flow of the Tigris and Euphrates was very low around 2100–2000 BCE. [...] Any damage to the agricultural

List of ancient Greek cities (169 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Απάμεια), Afamia (أفاميا or آفاميا) Apamea near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, in Iraq abandoned Apameia (Απάμεια) Apamea Sittacene, Iraq, surrounded

Agriculture in Italy (2,464 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fertile Crescent (Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates). Later, after having crossed the Alpine arc, the peasants who came

Šubula (1,430 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not certain. In one text, Ishum and Šubula are called the "gods of Tigris and Euphrates." According to the god list An = Anum, Šubula's wife was Tadmuštum

Lopo Homem (1,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Tables of the Law on Mount Sinai, and the Tower of Babel between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Central Atlantic Ocean with the Azores. One side of the map

Upper Mesopotamia (3,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Northern part of the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

Şanlıurfa Province (3,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Projesi (GAP)) designed to: exploit the hydropower potential of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; dramatically expand irrigation for agriculture; and develop

Shuruppak (3,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Morozova, Galina S. (2005). "A review of Holocene avulsions of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and possible effects on the evolution of civilizations in

Hydrology (4,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Estimates of changes in water storage around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, measured by NASA's GRACE satellites. The satellites measure tiny changes

Coracle (2,792 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used as ferries, lighters, fishing vessels, and water taxis on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers since at least the 9th century BC. They share details with

Flood myth (4,115 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Morozova, Galina S. (2005). "A review of Holocene avulsions of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and possible effects on the evolution of civilizations in

Beatus map (1,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

emerged in Babel. Mesopotamia is the region located between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. There we find the regions of Babylon and Chaldea. Babylon was the

Archaeology awareness playing cards (1,421 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Iraq's civilisation originated in the Fertile Crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Humans first created agricultural settlements here over 8

Akshak (1,457 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

exact location is uncertain. Classical writers located it where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are closest together and it was mentioned along with Kish

Tell Uqair (2,236 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

marking the site of ancient Kutha. It lies about halfway between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The topography consists of two contiguous mounds, north (Mound

Bee Movie (3,825 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

coasts. Seinfeld said he set the film in New York because it was "the Tigris and Euphrates of comedy", and Katzenberg was the main reason for making the film

190s (2,705 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the East. His soldiers embark on an artificial canal between the Tigris and Euphrates. Legio I, II, and III Parthica are levied by Septimius Severus for

Warka Vase (1,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

– of carving. The bottom register depicts the vegetation in the Tigris and Euphrates delta, such as the natural reeds and cultivated grain. Above this

Old Bridge, Hasankeyf (5,897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University Press Zekeriya, Kurşun (2012), "Does the Qatar Map of the Tigris and Euphrates belong to Evliya Çelebi?" (PDF), Journal of Ottoman Studies [Osmanlı

The Mirage (Ruff novel) (1,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

November 9, 2001, when members crashed two hijacked planes into the Tigris and Euphrates World Trade Center Towers in Baghdad, another hitting the Arab Defense

Foreign relations of the Arab League (2,848 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

came from Iraq and Syria due to the Turkish Water Projects on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, especially the Atatürk Dam. Also the Hatay Province's choice

Marsh Arabs (3,748 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

completely recover, given increased levels of water extraction from the Tigris and Euphrates. Many of the resettled Marsh Arabs have gained representation through

Dulaim (2,274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

settlement on agricultural and pastoral areas on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates, and controlled on the areas and subject the other tribes in the

Prehistory of Mesopotamia (16,409 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

emergence of writing in the area of the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as well as surrounding areas such as the Zagros foothills

Semen (5,147 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

previously nonexistent plants.: 49 Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by masturbating and ejaculating into their empty riverbeds

Ishum (2,186 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

instead. In one text, Ishum and Shubula are called the "gods of Tigris and Euphrates." When first introduced to the Mesopotamian pantheon, Ishum was not

Tile (4,048 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in Mesopotamia where river mud was found in abundance along the Tigris and Euphrates. Here the scarcity of stone may have been an incentive to develop

Etymology of Khuzestan (2,114 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as the Bani Kaab tribe, came from the west and southwest of the Tigris and Euphrates outside of Khuzestan, beginning in the 15-16th centuries.[citation

Arsenical bronze (3,113 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Akkadians, those of Ur, and the Amorites, all based around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and centres of the trade networks which spread arsenical bronze

List of burial places of Abrahamic figures (746 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hebrew inscriptions are still present in the room. Located where Tigris and Euphrates meet. Zechariah ben Jehoiada Tomb of Zechariah, Mount of Olives,

1st Australian Wireless Signal Squadron (1,110 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

across the desert to the Shatt al-Hayy, a channel connecting the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The cavalry reached the channel by dawn and began advancing

Barrel (3,496 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fifth century BC [...] could carry nearly 25 tons of wine along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers to Babylon. Most wine histories say that Herodotus wrote that

Jujube (3,157 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

narrative says that a river flowed from the garden and split into Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where the city is currently). The tree is a tourist spot

A Choice of Kipling's Verse (4,207 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

partially about him. Mesopotamia is an historical region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus

Rapiqum (2,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

peoples, numerous as blades of grass, from the mighty waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, ...of the Tigris, that my lord has entrusted to me, ... citizens

A. Monem Mahjoub (1,525 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the Sumerian language, which originated on the shores of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium B.C. Mahjoub

House of Egibi (1,589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wayback Machine Retrieved 2012-07-28 Lady Ethel Stefana Drower - By Tigris and Euphrates - Hurst & Blackett, Limited, 1923 Retrieved 2012-07-28 (secondary)

Watermill (5,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ships moored in midstream. This technique was employed along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in 10th-century Iraq, where large ship mills made of teak

Agriculture in Mesopotamia (8,712 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Other watercourses in Mesopotamia are the rivers that flow into the Tigris and Euphrates. The tributaries of the former originate in the Zagros; from north

Once Upon a Time in Mesopotamia (813 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

partially shot in Iraq, in the land of clay and reed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The book Il était une fois la Mésopotamie, on which the film

Hatay Province (4,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

December 2009, the Hatay dispute stalled a water agreement over the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Turkey asked Syria to publicly recognize Hatay as a Turkish

Ancient Semitic-speaking peoples (4,245 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Empire and other civilizations of Assyria and Babylonia along the Tigris and Euphrates (modern Iraq, northeast Syria, southeast Turkey and the fringe of

Peter Cusack (musician) (1,477 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Azerbaijan oil fields, and areas around controversial dams on the Tigris and Euphrates river systems in south east Turkey. Cusack's performances are a central

Kurdistan (6,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reservoir for the Near and Middle East, forming the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as well as other numerous smaller rivers, such as the Little

Anglo-Iraqi War (12,452 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Meanwhile, Iraqi forces had now occupied vital bridges over the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and reinforced their garrison at Ramadi, cutting off land

Rivers of Babylon (2,824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

land? The namesake rivers of Babylon (in present-day Iraq) are the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The song also has words from Psalm 19:14: Let the words of

History of masturbation (4,582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sumerian mythology, the god Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by masturbating and ejaculating into their empty riverbeds

Francis Rawdon Chesney (2,447 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

During the Euphrates expedition, two steamers, Tigris and Euphrates, got caught in a violent hurricane and the former was sunk with the loss of many lives

History of the Middle East (10,838 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Egypt that of the lower Nile River, and for Mesopotamia that of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Levantine agriculture depended on precipitation rather than

Shammar (4,353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

major cities, especially the Jazirah plain, the area between the Tigris and Euphrates from Baghdad to Mosul. Droughts triggered several migrations of Shammar

Enki (6,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates. But there is still the problem of "who will keep the cosmos working"

Order of Free Gardeners (2,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

with the letters P, G, H, E, initials of Pishon, Gihon, Hiddekel (Tigris) and Euphrates (the four rivers of the Garden of Eden) and A, N, S, initials of

Chaldea (5,976 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

referred to the low, marshy, alluvial land around the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which at the time discharged their waters through separate mouths

Traditional fishing boat (5,294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

larger vessels. These coracles have been in continuous use on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, particularly around Baghdad, through the 1970s. Some of the

Venetian glass (5,526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Byzantine and Islamic glass are evident". The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is considered the birthplace of glassmaking. Glass was made

History of Iraq (2011–present) (2,782 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

second-driest season in the past four decades in 2021. Water flows in the Tigris and Euphrates are down between 30 and 40 percent. Half of the country's farmland

Petroleum seep (3,479 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

although it was also found in the Levant and Persia. Along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the area was littered with hundreds of pure bitumen seepages

Finances of the Islamic State (3,093 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seek new revenue streams from drug trafficking. The acreage between Tigris and Euphrates has produced half of Syria's annual wheat crop and a third of Iraq's

Chaldean flag (919 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which encompass Chaldean-Assyrian villages and establishments, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. In the middle of the flag, an eight-fold Mesopotamian star

Technology (10,419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

used a complex system of canals and levees to divert water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for irrigation. Archaeologists estimate that the wheel was

Larsa (2,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

large system of internal canals and a port area, all linked to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Old Babylonian times. In a destroyed level of the Grand

Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad (4,273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

After the Battle of Es Sinn, the Anglo-Indian force controlled the Tigris and Euphrates rivers through much of what is now southern Iraq. Sensing that Baghdad

History of Baghdad (3,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

further settlement from outsiders. Baghdad's location between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created a trade link to further destinations such as China

Birecik (3,760 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2020, pp. 84. Husain, Faisal H. (2021). Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire. Oxford University Press. pp. 40–8. ISBN 978-0-19-754729-8

Airboat (4,598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and they are used by both American and Iraqi forces to patrol the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshes of southeastern Iraq, and the Shatt al-Arab waterway

James Fitzjames (3,842 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

promoted with great energy, it was not a success. The two steamers, Tigris and Euphrates, had to be transported in pieces 130 miles (210 km) across the mountains

Minorities in Iraq (5,632 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

70,000 total living in the country mainly in the area around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Mandaeans, although an ethnic and religious minority, consider

Jannah (6,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Badiuzzaman Said Nursi attracts attention to the rivers like the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates and quotes the hadith 'The source of each of those three rivers is

History of beer (7,666 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

filtered beer of the collector vat... It is [like] the onrush of Tigris and Euphrates." Approximately 5,000 years ago, workers in the city of Uruk were

Emirate of Muhammara (2,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chesney’ s expeditions (1835–37) to prove the navigability of the Tigris and Euphrates, which concluded that Muhammarah should be the center of communications

Basra (7,441 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

landmark. The Muhhmad Baquir Al-Sadr Bridge, at the union of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, was completed in 2017. Sayab's House Ruins is the site of

Berlin–Baghdad railway (4,859 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

early as 1871 a commission of experts studied the geology of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and reported plentiful oil of good quality, but commented

1991 Iraqi uprisings (6,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the continuation of the war and destruction. Honorable Sons of the Tigris and Euphrates, at these decisive moments of your life, and while facing the danger

Marc Garlasco (3,622 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Garlasco and colleagues focused on the main fighting areas in the Tigris and Euphrates river valleys where civilian deaths had been reported, visiting ten

Mecca (11,909 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Another previous route that ran through the Persian Gulf via the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was also being threatened by exploitations from the Sassanid

Armenian genocide (10,562 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

widespread pollution downstream. So many bodies floated down the Tigris and Euphrates that they sometimes blocked the rivers and needed to be cleared with

Battle of Siddim (4,398 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The main trade route between Ashur and Kanesh running between the Tigris and Euphrates passed through Harran. The empire of Shamshi-Adad I and Rim-Sin I

Masturbation (14,075 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sumerian mythology, the god Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates rivers by masturbating and ejaculating into their empty riverbeds

Trajan's Parthian campaign (4,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

towards the Taurus mountains to consolidate territory between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. He placed permanent garrisons along the way to secure the

Dam (11,137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to control water levels, for Mesopotamia's weather affected the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The earliest known dam is the Jawa Dam in Jordan, 100 kilometres

Sacred prostitution (6,870 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during certain rituals. Ancient Near Eastern societies along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers featured many shrines and temples or houses of heaven dedicated

Studies of the Book of Mormon (3,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

commencement of their journeys, both apparently travel north between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, both cross water barriers, both trips take years, and both

2015–2018 Iraqi protests (4,554 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

drinking water, due to five factors: Upstream dams in the rivers Tigris and Euphrates or their contributory rivers in Turkey, Syria and Iran had diminished

Aachen Cathedral (6,583 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an inscription written in dactylic hexameter, which refers to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers of Mesopotamia. According to one view, the pine cone would

Cultivated plant taxonomy (5,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Fertile Crescent (the fertile river valleys of the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates) in the Western Mediterranean. Food plant selections would also have

Cultivated plant taxonomy (5,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Fertile Crescent (the fertile river valleys of the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates) in the Western Mediterranean. Food plant selections would also have

History of Mesopotamia (6,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the Taurus and Zagros Mountains and the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period (10,000–8,700

Hittites (11,294 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hurrians, a people living in the mountainous region along the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern south east Turkey, took advantage of the situation

Islamic Golden Age (13,893 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Violators were fined or beaten.[citation needed] Apart from the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, navigable rivers were uncommon in the Middle East, so transport

Maksymilian Stanisław Ryłło (1,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

visited Asia Minor as a papal visitor and passed by Damascus and the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He made contracts with representatives of the Eastern Catholic

Water politics (11,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Within the Middle East, all major rivers cross at least one international border, with the most important, the Tigris and

Political history of the world (19,261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fertile land. A similar dynamic existed in Mesopotamia, where the Tigris and Euphrates did the same with the Zagros Mountains. Ancient Egypt was helped

History of Sumer (3,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

his kingdom extended "from the Lower Sea (Persian Gulf), along the Tigris and Euphrates, to the Upper Sea" or Mediterranean. His empire was overthrown by

Agriculture (18,331 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

started to live in villages from about 8,000 BC, relying on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and a canal system for irrigation. Ploughs appear in pictographs

Hatay dispute (1,550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and Syria in December 2009, although a water agreement over the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was halted when Turkey asked Syria to officially recognize

Water wheel (9,478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ships moored in midstream. This technique was employed along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in 10th-century Iraq, where large shipmills made of teak and

Abbasid Caliphate (16,173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cultivation was gradually adopted by the Europeans. Apart from the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, navigable rivers were uncommon, so transport by sea was very important

Water (20,166 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

so-called cradles of civilization, was situated between the major rivers Tigris and Euphrates; the ancient society of the Egyptians depended entirely upon the

Umar (12,271 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Arabia) Basra (Iraq) Kufa (Iraq) Jazira, in the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Syria Iliyā' (إلياء) (Palestine) Ramlah (Palestine) Upper Egypt Lower

Art of Mesopotamia (8,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

than in Egypt or the Indus Valley, meaning that the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers were very different from the deserts of today; in the highlands

Cradle of civilization (13,629 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Turkey, Northeast Syria and Northwest Iran), the convergence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers produced rich fertile soil and a supply of water for irrigation

History of Iraq (11,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Arabic (meaning "The Island" in reference to the "island" between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers), and Lower Mesopotamia came to be known as ʿIrāq-i ʿArab

History of astronomy (10,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

astronomy can be found in Mesopotamia, the "land between the rivers" Tigris and Euphrates, where the ancient kingdoms of Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia were

Climate change in the Middle East and North Africa (8,308 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

annual temperatures will increase by 2°C by 2050. The flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which provide 98% of Iraq's surface water, has decreased

Indus Valley Civilisation (21,640 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that saw the rise of the civilisations of Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), Egypt (along the Nile), and northeast China (in the Yellow

Climate change in Turkey (8,231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hydroelectricity in Turkey is forecast, and Turkish dams in the Tigris and Euphrates river basins are reducing cross-border flow and exacerbating drought

Elam (9,931 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Achaemenid period.) Proto-Elamite civilization grew up east of the Tigris and Euphrates alluvial plains; it was a combination of the lowlands and the immediate

History of the ancient Levant (9,319 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

wall dubbed "Repeller of the Amorites", extending in between the Tigris and Euphrates, to hold them off. The Amorites are depicted in contemporary records

Parthian Empire (15,442 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eastern Fertile Crescent, the heart of the Parthian Empire along the Tigris and Euphrates. The heightened aggression can be explained in part by Rome's military

Trajan (18,739 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Taurus mountains in order to consolidate territory between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. He placed permanent garrisons along the way to secure the

Human sacrifice (15,127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

coast of the Levant extending north into Asia Minor and west to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Most of the land was arid and the religious culture of the

Iraq War and the war on terror (3,781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Be glad of the good news: America is mired in the swamps of the Tigris and Euphrates. Bush is, through Iraq and its oil, easy prey. Here is he now, thank

Travel in classical antiquity (3,472 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trade and transportation. In the Near East, river travel on the Tigris and Euphrates was supplemented by long-distance travel over land in wagon-like

Aleppo (18,559 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

crossroads of two trade routes and mediated the trade from India, the Tigris and Euphrates regions and the route coming from Damascus in the South, which traced

History of agriculture (13,531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Given the low rainfall of the region, agriculture relied on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Irrigation canals leading from the rivers permitted the growth

Empire and Communications (8,740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

civilizations in Mesopotamia. He starts with the fertile plains between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, but as the history unfolds, his discussion extends to large

Foreign relations of Iraq (4,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

challenges; dispute over water development plans by Turkey for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Territorial disputes in the Persian Gulf Disarmament of Iraq

History of navigation (7,969 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Indian Ocean and China Sea in the east, Apart from the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, navigable rivers in the Islamic regions were uncommon, so transport

September 1915 (8,140 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Charles Townshend defeated Ottoman forces at a strategic point in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, setting the Allied forces for siege on Kut in what is now

Lisbon–Macau Raid (2,882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Baghdad. On 28 April they tried again, following a route between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Reaching the coast, they sighted Bushehr at noon and made

History of Kuwait (15,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at the head of the Persian Gulf (present-day Kuwait), where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers run into the sea, from his research on this area using information

Old Assyrian period (11,648 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Universe, builder of Assur's temple, pacifier of the land between Tigris and Euphrates". In some inscriptions and seals this style was preceded by "appointee

Oil sands (18,070 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

although it was also found in the Levant and Persia. The area along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers was littered with hundreds of pure bitumen seepages. The Mesopotamians

Alain Gachet (2,913 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

threat of water shortages, generated upstream, in the dams along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. With the support of the European Union and UNESCO, Gachet

Human history (27,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

arose close to rivers, first in Mesopotamia (3300 BCE) with the Tigris and Euphrates, followed by the Egyptian civilization along the Nile River (3200

Cimmerians (20,507 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sargon II and Sennacherib had expanded from its core region of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys to rule and dominate a large territory ranging from Que (Plain

Uruk period (16,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

obtain the numerous raw materials which were not available in the Tigris and Euphrates floodplains, and founded their colonies on nodal points which controlled

US intervention in the Syrian civil war (20,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

zone in northern Syria along the Syria–Turkey border between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Separate from Turkey's own occupation zone in northern Syria

Meanings of minor-planet names: 15001–16000 (423 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was the capital of southern Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. JPL · 15417 15418 Sergiospinelli 1998 DU35 Sergio Spinelli

Maritime history (17,536 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Asian sea, dating back over 1000 years. Apart from the Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, navigable rivers in the Islamic regions were uncommon, so transport

October 1980 (8,959 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Iran's port on the Shatt al-Arab waterway at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The U.S. cargo ship SS Poet and its 33-man crew disappeared

September 1980 (8,503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

partial control of the Shatt al-Arab, the combined estuary of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in return for Iran's agreement to discontinue support to

Scythians (53,480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sargon II and Sennacherib had expanded from its core region of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys to rule and dominate a large territory ranging from Que (Plain

History of cities (5,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

day Iraq.[citation needed] Ancient Mesopotamia, the area of the Tigris and Euphrates within modern day Iraq and Syria, was home to numerous cities by

Water conflict in the Middle East and North Africa (5,277 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

month in Iraq, water inflows from Turkey decreased by 50% for both Tigris and Euphrates, meanwhile inflows of tributaries from Iran to Darbandikhan dam and

List of Mesopotamian deities (11,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

poem Lugal-e, he slays the demon Asag and uses stones to build the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to make them useful for irrigation. His major symbols were

Rationale for the Iraq War (19,798 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Be glad of the good news: America is mired in the swamps of the Tigris and Euphrates. Bush is, through Iraq and its oil, easy prey. Here is he now, thank

George Leo Haydock (5,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

its extent we do not know. If the sources of the Ganges, Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, be not now changed, and if these be the rivers which sprung from

Meanings of minor-planet names: 13001–14000 (445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Euphrates river flows through northern Syria and Iraq. At Al Qurnah the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come close together, forming the Tigris-Euphrates system.

Foreign relations of Syria (10,743 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

upstream riparian Turkey over Turkish water development plans for the Tigris and Euphrates rivers separation of the Hatay State and subsequent incorporation

List of country-name etymologies (26,621 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Semitic Bein-Al Nahrein, "Land of two Rivers", referring to the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After "Éire" from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū, "the fertile place"

History of the Assyrians (21,034 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Assyrian refugees in the steppe between the Tigris and Euphrates in 1939

Timeline of US intervention in the Syrian civil war (32,890 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

jointly implement a demilitarized buffer zone in the areas between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—excluding the Manbij area—in northern Syria. Terms of the

Timeline of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda link allegations (28,917 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Be glad of the good news: America is mired in the swamps of the Tigris and Euphrates. Bush is, through Iraq and its oil, easy prey. Here is he now, thank

Foreign policy of the Harry S. Truman administration (15,993 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

divide Palestine. The Jews wanted to chase all the Arabs into the Tigris and Euphrates River and the Arabs wanted to chase all the Jews into the Red Sea

List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene (6,370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Upper Mesopotamia: Present Evidence and Archaeological Data". In Tigris and Euphrates Rivers: Their Environment from Headwaters to Mouth (pp. 13-72). Springer

List of cultural references in the Divine Comedy (27,316 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Purgatory wait on the seashore for the angelic ferry. Purg. II, 101. Tigris and Euphrates: Rivers in the Middle East. According to Genesis 2, they had their

Sassanid campaign of Severus Alexander (3,592 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

putting them to death. As Alexander Severus was preparing to cross the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and lead his army into Sasanian territory, several mutinies

Ilish (2,935 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Burma) and the Persian Gulf area where it can be found in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in and around Iran and southern Iraq. The fish schools in

Marine navigation (2,841 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

civilizations, who from the Sumerians onwards navigated their two rivers (Tigris and Euphrates) and the Persian Gulf. The ancient Egyptians did not limit themselves

History of institutions in Mesopotamia (4,653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

south of present-day Iraq revealed a progressive occupation of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys and the consolidation of agriculture and farming. The first

History of lute-family instruments (23,061 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Assyrians, Persians, Greeks all ruled the Mesopotamian area between Tigris and Euphrates rivers where the earliest examples of lutes have survived in clay

Origins of agriculture in West Asia (17,064 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mesopotamia in the broadest sense comprises the regions dissected by the Tigris and Euphrates, the two main rivers of the Middle East. Southeastern Anatolia is

Cosmology in the ancient Near East (13,135 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mountains and Tiamat's eyes are used to open the sources of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Parts of the watery body were used to create parts of the

Wildlife of the Levant (20,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

breeds in the Levant, inhabiting northwestern Jordan, Syria along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, western Lebanon, northern Israel, and the West Bank. Despite

History of Constantinople (27,381 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Armenia and Georgia, and to establish its eastern border along the Tigris and Euphrates. But in the west, the Byzantines suffered long defeats in wars with