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Sentence Examples The town's garrison has been fighting for the past two weeks and continues to hold its positions on the left bank of the Euphrates. This is the largest archaeological site in southern Iraq, situated east of the present course of the Euphrates. Ur ceased to exist in the 4th century BC, probably because the River Euphrates changed course. A cheering crowd dragged their burned and mutilated bodies through the streets and hanged two bodies from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The two men were found in a luxurious villa on the west bank of the River Euphrates where a deadly AK47 pistol was also discovered. The mountain of Jebel Bishri forms a strategically important natural bastion on the Middle Euphrates in Syria. The area to be irrigated in the basin of the Khabur River, a major tributary of the Euphrates in the Syrian territory, is 137,000 ha. Iraqi forces ambushed marines when they crossed the Euphrates river near Nassiriya. In front of me is a Bailey bridge across a wide canal that transfers water from the Euphrates River to a lake further to the east. The second choke point was a set of bridges crossing the Euphrates River, which was called Objective Peaches. Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there. We learned later, after a beautiful drive alongside the palm-lined Euphrates back to Baghdad that our guides had gypped us. The Syrian Desert, which is crossed by the Euphrates River, as well as semiarid and desert plateaus dominate the landscape. Anyone who has studied ancient history at high school can recall the Sumerians, the Assyrians and the Babylonians, and the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers. And like civilization itself, it might all start on the banks of the Euphrates. It is thought that in this time period the art of cheese making was developed in the fertile Cresent between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Iraq. The ancient Babylonians called it the Goat-Fish, and said it ruled the part of the sky from which the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers flowed. There is only one river basin, Shatt Al-Arab, formed by the confluence downstream of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers into the Persian Gulf. And then there is the ISIS video of Crawford splashing in the Euphrates as if he were a kid again. Water sharing on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers with neighbouring countries is one of the highest concerns in the water planning sector of Iraq. Show More Sentences The flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq is diminishing, with the reduction in water quantity also affecting water quality. Another location often suggested is a site north of the ancient site of Babylon between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. Engineers built canals to siphon water from the Euphrates River and transport it to their fields, giving rise to the world's first irrigation-based society. Turkey, Syria and Iraq, which lie on the Euphrates and Tigris, are trying to control the water from these two rivers. Therefore, it was well accepted, as Candolle had suggested in 1886, that since wild wheats grow in the Euphrates basin, wheat cultivation must have originated there. The River Tigris rises in Turkey and flows south-eastwards for 1200 miles, before merging with the Euphrates and eventually flowing into the Persian Gulf. Iraq and Syria rely for most of their water on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers flowing out of Turkey. In 2004 insurgents in Fallujah killed four of its employees, burned their bodies and hung two from a bridge over the Euphrates. Asian elephants ranged from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers into China and Borneo. However, eighteen months after the expulsion of the Ottomans there was still no Arab government in place, and a rebellion started by the Euphrates tribes was in full swing. In 272 unity was restored by Aurelian, but Mesopotamia was lost, and the Euphrates became the new frontier of the empire. Pre-historic art: dedicated to finds such as bones and pottery from the regions of Syria and the Euphrates Valley. One-fifth of Turkey's irrigable land is in the eight southeastern provinces where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers originate. The American thrust up the Euphrates valley has advanced at an extraordinary rate, which the German architects of Blitzkrieg would have admired. Palace B, located in the Raqqa region, extending to the east of the Euphrates River and bordered by its tributary the Balikh River, is one such palace. In late 1299, the Mongol Ilkhan Mahmud Ghazan, son of Arghun, took his army and crossed the Euphrates river to again invade Syria. As Castamon, it was on the northern trunk route to the Euphrates River and was an important Byzantine town captured by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century. With astonishing incongruousness in the bleakest of desert lands, a soft breeze turns over small whitecaps on a huge reservoir fed by the Euphrates as waterfalls splash over greenery growing under the spillways. It is not easy to understand why Carchemish, which controlled the Euphrates crossings, was allowed to retain its independence and Wassukkani, somewhere to the east on the headwaters of the Khābūr River, to remain untenanted. The Tigris and Euphrates enter the city as one river called Shatt al-Arab after their confluence in Qurna, north of Basra. Show More Sentences Alexander managed to suppress the uprising, and Taurinus drowned while attempting to flee across the Euphrates. After his Nubian war Thutmose penetrated to the Euphrates River in the vicinity of Carchemish in Syria as he continued the pursuit of the Hyksos, Asiatic rulers who had recently dominated Egypt. Sargon then describes how he was set adrift in the River Euphrates in a basket of reeds sealed with bitumen, and later found by a water-carrier who raised him as his own son. Around 10,000 years ago, this provided a staple diet for the hunter-gatherers in Mesopotamia and in the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys in the Middle East, an area called the Fertile Crescent. An analysis of 11new transboundary basins: the Danube, Nile, SADC, Parana, Rio Grande, Great Lakes and the Saint Laurent, the Euphrates and Tigris, the Aral Sea, the Mekong, Ganga and Brahmaputra. The Parthian kings began their conquests at Nisa and turned small Parthia into a huge empire of the ancient world stretching from the Indus to the Euphrates. An important group of statues is derived from the ancient capital of Mari, on the middle Euphrates, where the population is known to have been racially different from the Sumerians. Better armed and financed, it has encroached steadily into areas freed from government control by other rebel groups, enforcing harsh, state-like authority along the Euphrates valley and across much of the north. Close to this gate one finds the great canal that meandered through the eastern side of the old town, and ended into the Euphrates, after having passed along the walls of the royal Palace. The project also addresses transboundary water issues on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers among neighbouring countries in order to strengthen regional cooperation for peaceful water distribution. The invasion force would have to take Baghdad, with its 5 million inhabitants, not to mention Basra, Karbala, An Najaf, Ramadi, and the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. We cannot begin to imagine, nor can these words express, the barbarity of the forces of darkness who rehearsed their plan for the entire greater Middle East on the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates. Most sewage is dumped untreated into the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and then drawn again into pumping and treatment stations that provide the majority of Iraqi households with water. In the East the frontiers had been fixed by Hadrian at the Euphrates. The 4m Kurds will certainly cheer, as may the powerful Sunni Arab tribes from the Euphrates valley in western Iraq who have traditionally opposed Mr Hussein's Tigris valley clans. After taking large parts of Iraq in a campaign that started in Mosul, the country's second largest city, in June, on August 1st IS battled to take control of Haditha dam on the Euphrates in the eastern province of al-Anbar. The reminder of the population, older women and children, are taken to places unfit for humans in Asia Minor, and others to the desert between Syria and the Euphrates River. Hebrew means a man from the other side of the Euphrates. But one in five Syrians also live in the area surrounding the Euphrates, and the two rivers flow past Iraq's two most populous cities, Baghdad and Basra. However, it is they who gave the names Tigris and Euphrates to the rivers of Mesopotamia, as well as the names of almost all of the cities we now recognize as Sumerian. Show More Sentences Great quantities of it were found on the banks of the river Issus, one of the tributaries of the Euphrates. It was also situated near a number of strategically important bridges over the Euphrates River. Army elements met resistance from Iraqi troops defending cities and key bridges along the Euphrates River. American troops rushed through the gap and reached the Euphrates River at the town of Musayib. The region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, historically known as Mesopotamia, is often referred to as the cradle of civilisation. Nevertheless, by that time the Empire stretched from the straits of Messina to the Euphrates and from the Danube to Syria. Passing through the territory of the city of Urfa, he crossed the Euphrates. Yisaur withdrew his force back up the Euphrates valley and received the submission of Malatia. Arabia Deserta was the entire desert region extending north from Arabia Felix to Palmyra and the Euphrates, including all the area between Pelusium on the Nile and Babylon. The Antonine age is considered the apogee of the Empire, whose territory ranged from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates and from Britain to Egypt. Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the east by the Armenian Highlands, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia. The ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia used a complex system of canals and levees to divert water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for irrigation. He probably traveled to Tyre next and then down the Euphrates to Babylon. The first and most extensive trade routes were over rivers such as the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates which led to growth of cities on the banks of these rivers. The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which at its peak covered an area from Lowland Scotland and Morocco to the Euphrates. However, as a few other hygrophilous taxa, notably Euphrates poplar and tamarisk, have been identified, these probably grew together with sissoo along the Bolan River. Examples from Classical Literature The country itself was an alluvial plain, formed by the silt deposited each year by the Tigris and Euphrates. If Rome was not yet the ruler, she was at least the arbitress of the world from the Atlantic to the Euphrates. That great river, the river Euphrates, is bitted with its girders and caissons. In the time of Julian, it must have fallen into the Euphrates, below Ctesiphon. For it seems certain that the return of sapor across the Euphrates was not effected without considerable loss and difficulty. Jastrow thinks that she may have been evolved from the sun-god of a city on the other side of the Euphrates from Sippar. A ditch of minor importance pierced the isthmus which separates the Tigris and the Euphrates in the neighbourhood of Sippar. We now received orders to prepare to embark on the troopship Euphrates for Portsmouth en route for Aldershot. Lucullus appears to have crossed the Euphrates at a more northern point than zeugma, where the river was crossed by Crassus. The culture of Pharaonic Egypt must have been derived from the banks of the Euphrates. The Sumerians take possession of the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Between the Euphrates and the trench was a narrow passage, twenty feet only in breadth. We also thought of water hyacinth in the Tigris and Euphrates. The city of his residence was Eridu on the banks of the Euphrates. The Euphrates River runs via Syria, along a graben, from Turkey in the north to Iraq. He retreated to Kurna, where the Tigris joins the Euphrates. Their general had only a small body-guard as he fled toward the Euphrates. Poles are used to this day to propel the crafts on the Euphrates. Only a partial section of the Carboniferous developed in the Euphrates graben and the Mesopotamian Fore-deep. Zebulon extended from the mountains of Pharan to the Euphrates. Show More Sentences On board the Euphrates Wickham had been abnormally interested in Cressley. The Euphrates forms pretty nearly the line of demarkation between them. At the mouth of the Euphrates they found a ship just about to start for Bagdad. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey struck Kurdish militia fighters in Syria twice after they defied Ankara's warning not to cross west of the Euphrates river. The essays examine international water law, the use of the waters of the Euphrates and Tigris, and comparative analyses of national water laws in the international experience. Find more words! 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