Flood

1. Now when they were come to Bagdad, which is upon the banks of the Tigris, they halted, and Feridoun bade the guardians of the flood convey them across.

Inhabitants

1. Recreating a relationship with the inhabitants of the Tigris and Euphrates basin - today's Iraq - is enormously difficult.

Sides

1. His kingdom extended on both sides of the Tigris, and doubtless included the country north of the Greater Zab, where Nineveh was situated.

Rome

1. Emperor of Rome (363–364). He made peace with the Persians by giving up all Roman territories beyond the Tigris River.

Mountains

1. While on the east side of the Tigris, Tiglath-pileser III began attacking along the mountains of Elam, taking many nomadic tribes captive.
2. Circled by mountains along the Tigris river, Dahuk has a growing tourist industry.

Source

1. The weeping eyes of this salt-water goddess became the source of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, two of the four springs of the Garden of Eden.

Macedonian Army

1. The happy coincidence of a lunar eclipse gives us the 20th of September 331 as the exact day upon which the Macedonian army crossed the Tigris.

Nisibis

1. After wintering at Nisibis, he crossed the Tigris, 220 BC, and advanced southwards against Molon, who marched from Babylon to meet him.

Hurrians

1. Nevertheless, there is no clear indication that the Hurrians had already advanced west of the Tigris at that time.

Undefeated Gladiator

1. As the games continue the next day, Commodus pits Maximus against Tigris of Gaul, Rome's only undefeated gladiator, in an arena surrounded by chained tigers.

Hatra

1. On the upper reaches of the Tigris, East Mesopotamian Aramaic flourished, with evidence from Hatra, Assur and the Tur Abdin.

Modern Mosul

1. There, he notes a small town of "Mepsila" (Μέπσιλα) on the Tigris at about where modern Mosul is today (Anabasis, III.iv.10).

Ancient Mesopotamia

1. Ancient Mesopotamia was between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Tigris River North

1. Abu Theeb's village, where the polling station was based, is a small hamlet that lies on the banks of the Tigris river north of Baghdad.

Elamites

1. The Elamites lived primarily in the area east of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
2. Sargon marched down the Tigris, seized the chief posts on the east, screened off the Elamites and threatened Merodach-baladan's rear.
3. Pushing southward, he subdued the Aram�ans on the eastern banks of the Tigris, and drove the Elamites into the mountains.

Eastern Turkey

1. Eastern Turkey has a more mountainous landscape and is home to the sources of rivers such as the Euphrates, Tigris and Aras.

Tigris River Valley

1. Assur was the capital of the kingdom of Shamshi-Adad I (1813-1781 BC). He expanded the city's power and influence beyond the Tigris river valley.

River Tigris

1. As early as Akkadian times, Hurrians are known to have lived east of the river Tigris on the northern rim of Mesopotamia, and in the Khabur valley.
2. Building a bridge made of ivy and vine across the river Euphrates he moved on, and a tiger sent by Zeus helped him cross the river Tigris.
3. Bacch. 13.) When he arrived at the Euphrates, he built a bridge to cross the river, but a tiger sent to him by Zeus carried him across the river Tigris.

Name

1. Assyria took its name from its chief city, Assur, on the upper Tigris.
2. Food supply in Mesopotamia was quite rich due to the location of the two rivers from which its name is derived, Tigris and Euphrates.

Province

1. In AD 298 the province of Mesopotamia, together with even some territory from across the river Tigris, was restored to Rome.

Fertile

1. Iraq, blessed with the fertile, sun-soaked lands between the Tigris and Euphrates, used to be a net exporter of food.
2. For the most part hilly, with well watered valleys and a wide plain along the Tigris, Assyria was fertile and populous.

Land

1. The Batman river, spanned by the old Malabadi Bridge, draws the province's border with Diyarbakir, and then joins Tigris (Dicle) passing through the land.

Lands

1. From the lands of the Euphrates and Tigris, regular trade routes led to the Mediterranean.

Area

1. He ruled the area of the upper Tigris, including the city-state of Assur.

Exception

1. Bash Tapia Castle Part of Mosul's old walls which has disappeared, with the exception of these imposing ruins rising high over Tigris.

Waters

1. Mesopotamia, birthplace of many great civilizations, depended on the waters of the Euphrates and the Tigris for survival.

Media

1. III'.[ 155] Cassius' army returned to the field in 166, crossing over the Tigris into Media.

Population

1. Mosul, Iraq's third largest city, with a population of 1.8 million, straddles the Tigris River on a grassy, windswept plain in the country's north.

Capital City

1. The Abbasid caliph Al-Mansour built a capital city on an island between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, in place of a small Persian village.
2. An ancient region on the Upper Tigris river, with capital city of Assur.

Muslims

1. Soon the Muslims reached the banks of the Tigris.

Water

1. On Aug. 31, 2005, a stampede among Shi'ite pilgrims on a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad led to hundreds jumping into the water in panic.

Tigris River

1. Assyria was a kingdom centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia (Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.
2. The inhabitants of Nineveh, the sprawling capital of Assyria on the Tigris river, were especially lawless and reprobate.
3. It stands on both banks of the Tigris River, with five bridges linking the two sides, some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad.

West Bank

1. Ashur ancient religious capital of Assyria, located on the west bank of the Tigris River in northern Iraq.
2. It is situated some 400km north of Baghdad situated on the west bank of Tigris, and close to the ruined Assyrian city of Nineveh.

Eastern Side

1. Nineveh itself lay on the Eastern side of the Tigris, opposite to the present Mosul.
2. Life still appears normal in many parts of Mosul, especially in the Kurdish neighborhoods on the eastern side of the Tigris River.

Civilization

1. Assyria was a civilization centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia (Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history.

Cradle

1. Mesopotamia was a cradle of civilization geographically located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq.

Great

1. Its capital was the great and bejeweled Tigranakert, the site of which is located in Eastern Turkey near the Tigris River.

Empires

1. In 627, the two empires fought a decisive battle at Nineveh, some 50 km east of the Tigris river, near Baghdad.

Part

1. Padan Aram or Mesopotamia, the N.W. part of the land between the Tigris and Euphrates.
2. It included the return of Tabriz, but secured Baghdad, lower Mesopotamia, the mouths of the river Euphrates and Tigris, as well as part of the Persian Gulf.
3. Part of Mosul's old walls which has disappeared, with the exception of these imposing ruins rising high over Tigris.

Iran

1. From the Tigris river to the Caucasus, to the Hindus river, to Central Asia, it's all Iran, Iran-e Bozorg, Iran Zamin.

Country

1. The valley drained by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which is today occupied primarily by the country of Iraq will be allotted to EN.LIL and his children.
2. They therefore posted their troops at Halule, on the Tigris, to check the Assyrian monarch before he overran the heart of the country.

Egypt

1. Ptolemy III, who was Berenice's brother and the ruler of Egypt, invaded the Seleucid Empire and marched victoriously to the Tigris or beyond.

Armenia

1. Persia's Shapur II sends his troops across the Tigris to recover Armenia and Mesopotamia from the Romans.
2. And the other is called Tigris, which runs by Assyria, and by Armenia the Great.

Edessa

1. So, in the late 1120s, Zangi, governor of Mosul on the Tigris, succeeded in unifying the local Muslim rulers, In 1144 he took Edessa.
2. Instead Roman troops marauded across the Tigris into Media and then finally withdrew to Edessa to spend the winter there.

Flowing

1. Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run through the centre of Iraq, flowing from northwest to southeast.
2. The Tigris river enters Iraq from the Kurdistan Region after flowing from Turkey.
3. The TIGRIS RIVER and the EUPHRATES RIVER originate in eastern Turkey before flowing to the Persian Gulf.

Tributaries

1. The land of rivers north of Mesopotamia is that between the Euphrates and the Tigris, which flow from tributaries and sources above and below Mount Ararat.

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