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unusual facts about Tigris River



681 BC

King Sennacherib of Assyria is assassinated by one or two of his sons in the temple of the god Ninurta at Kalhu (Northern Mesopotamia) after a 24-year reign in which he defeated the Babylonians, made Nineveh (modern Iraq) a showplace, and diverted the waters of the Tigris River into a huge aqueduct to supply the city with irrigation.

Al-Kahraba

Al-Kahraba football club (Electric Club or Electricity Club) is an Iraqi football club based in Rusafa District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad.

Al-Mada'in

Al-Mada'in ("The Cities") (Arabic: المدائن Al-Madā'in; Aramaic: Māhōzē) is the name given to the ancient metropolis formed by Seleucia and Ctesiphon (also referred to as Seleucia-Ctesiphon) on opposite sides of the Tigris River in present-day Iraq.

Al-Naft

Al Naft (Oil FC) is an Iraqi football club based in Adhamiyah District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad.

Fertile Crescent

In current usage, all definitions of the Fertile Crescent include Mesopotamia, the land in and around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Second Battle of Kut

The British, led by Frederick Stanley Maude, recaptured the city, but the Ottoman garrison there did not get trapped inside (as had happened to Townshend's troops in the previous year when the Ottomans had besieged Kut in the Siege of Kut): the Ottoman commander, Kâzım Karabekir Bey, managed a good-order retreat from the town of his remaining soldiers (about 2,500), pursued by a British fluvial flotilla along the Tigris River.

Siege of Kut

Like Caesar at the Alesia, he prepared for an attack from Basra, using the Tigris River, by building defensive positions further down the river.

Steamboats of the upper Columbia and Kootenay Rivers

Captain Armstrong supervised British river transport in the Middle East, on the Nile and Tigris river.

Talaba SC

Talaba Sport Club (Arabic: نادي الطلبة) is an Iraqi football club based in Rusafa District, East Districts of the Tigris River, Baghdad.

Transport in Iraq

5,729 km (Euphrates River (2,815 km), Tigris River 1,899 km, Third River (565 km)); Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft watercraft; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf War

Tuz Khormato

The city is located in the north-eastern part of the governorate, on the right bank of the Aksu River, a tributary of the Tigris, at an altitude of 218 meters above sea level.

Wajihids

The Wajihid military moved up the Tigris River and took possession of al-Ubullah, but the expedition failed when the Baridi rulers of Basra managed to destroy much of the Wajihid fleet.


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106th Hazara Pioneers

In 1918, the whole regiment proceeded to Mesopotamia where, after serving for some months with the 18th Indian Division on the Tigris above Baghdad, they joined the 2nd Corps and were employed in helping the drive the railway through the Jabal Hamrin from Table Mountain on the Dajla (Tigris River).

College of Medicine University of Baghdad

The College was established near a hospital (al Majeedi Hospital) near to Tigris river.

Diniktum

Diniktum, inscribed Di-ni-ik-tumKI, was a middle bronze-age town located somewhere in the lower Diyala region of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris river downstream from Upi and close to the northern border of Elam.

Green Zone

The permanent U.S. embassy is located in the southern part of the International or "Green" Zone overlooking the Tigris River.

Mesopotamian Half Flight

Because the Tigris river was too shallow for the seaplanes to use at that time of year, the seaplanes were converted into Shorthorns.