tigris

     

The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that efine Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Turkey through Iraq.

Trivia about tigris

  • This river begins in Turkey's eastern Anatolian Highlands & flows through Baghdad on its way to the Persian Gulf
  • Iraq's capital, Baghdad, is located on both banks of this historic river
  • Baghdad, Iraq lies on this Fertile Crescent river
  • In Islamic tradition Noah's ark ended up on al-Judi, a mountain near the Euphrates & the headwaters of this other Iraqi river
  • Baghdad
  • The ancient Mesopotamian city of Nineveh was on its East Bank
  • The Turkish city of Batman is near where this river enters Iraq
  • This river flows about 1,150 miles from Lake Hazar in Turkey through Baghdad, on its way to the Persian Gulf