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Tigris
[ tahy-gris ]
noun
- a river in SW Asia, flowing SE from SE Turkey through Iraq, joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt-al-Arab. 1,150 miles (1,850 km) long.
Tigris
/ ˈtaɪɡrɪs /
noun
- a river in SW Asia, rising in E Turkey and flowing southeast through Baghdad to the Euphrates in SE Iraq, forming the delta of the Shatt-al-Arab, which flows into the Persian Gulf: part of a canal and irrigation system as early as 2400 bc , with many ancient cities (including Nineveh) on its banks. Length: 1900 km (1180 miles)
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You stand on an unsteady pontoon bridge spanning the Tigris River in a township called Adh Dhouloueya.
Bell died at her house by the Tigris in Baghdad in July 1926 at the age of 57.
We have not hatched a perfect democracy on the Tigris, and this we know.
And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, I was by the great river, which is the Tigris.
Its method of progress is simply to drift down the fairly rapid current of the Tigris as far as is required.
In this case, you must take them all and throw them by night into the Tigris.
They relinquished to the Romans five provinces beyond the Tigris.
Was there not the Euphrates, was there not the Tigris, the Aranes?
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