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Tigris - Wikipedia The Tigris is 1,750 km (1,090 mi) long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey about 25 km (16 mi) southeast of the city of Elazığ and about 30 km (19 mi) from the headwaters of the Euphrates
Tigris-Euphrates river system | Ancient Mesopotamia, Asia | Britannica Tigris-Euphrates river system, great river system of southwestern Asia It comprises the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which follow roughly parallel courses through the heart of the Middle East The lower portion of the region that they define, known as Mesopotamia (Greek: “Land Between the Rivers”), was one of the cradles of civilization
The Tigris: The river that birthed civilisation - BBC South-east of Diyarbakır, the Tigris etches a deep canyon through the Tur Abdin region of Turkey's Taurus mountains For centuries, this has been the heartland of the ancient Syriac Orthodox
Tigris River - WorldAtlas The Tigris River flows through three countries - Turkey, Syria, and Iraq, and drains an area of approximately 375,000 sq km (including Iran) It discharges an average volume of 1,014 cubic meters of water per second and a maximum of 2,779 cubic meters per second
Tigris River - National Geographic Society Surrounded by four countries (Iran, Iraq, Türkiye and Syria), the Tigris River is the second largest river in western Asia With the Euphrates River, it makes up a river system that borders Mesopotamia in the area known as the Fertile Crescent
Tigris - Encyclopedia. com Tigris (tī´grĬs), 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 [1]
Tigris–Euphrates river system - Wikipedia The Tigris–Euphrates river system is a large river system in West Asia that flows into the Persian Gulf Its primary rivers are the Tigris and Euphrates, along with smaller tributaries
Tigris - Livius Tigris (Greek Τίγρις): one of the main rivers in Mesopotamia Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word that can be translated as "fast" or "arrow-like" The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna, and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylonia and Assyria, its name was Idiqlat
Tigris-Euphrates river system - Mesopotamia, Shatt al-Arab, Basins . . . Tigris-Euphrates river system - Mesopotamia, Shatt al-Arab, Basins: The Tigris, rising in Lake Hazar (a small mountain lake southeast of Elazığ) and fed by a number of small tributaries, drains a wide area of eastern Turkey