euphrates

     

The Euphrates (juːˈfreɪtiːz (help·info)) (Arabic: نهر الفرات, Nahr ul-Furāt; Turkish: Fırat; Syriac: ܦܪܬ, Prāṯ; Hebrew: פרת, Pĕrāṯ) is the western of the two great rivers that efine Mesopotamia (the other being the Tigris) which flows from Anatolia.

Trivia about euphrates

  • This river flows from its source in Turkey to the Shatt Al Arab, where it unites with the Tigris
  • The ruins of Babylon lie on the banks of this river, the longest in southwest Asia
  • This river flows 1,700 miles across Iraq & empties into the Persian Gulf just past the city of Basra
  • Baghdad is on the Tigris; Fallujah is on this
  • Shades of Moses: Ancient Sumer's Sargon I was sealed in a reed basket & floated down this river
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a map of Egypt on the monitor.) Egypt originally hugged the Nile River, but over the next 1,200 years, it gradually grew to cover an area reaching as far north as this river by the 1400s B.C.
  • River that flowed fourth from Eden(9)
  • The ruins of Ur are in a desert because this river, which once ran near it, changed course
  • Ur was located on this river important to its commerce & irrigation; today, the ruins are 10 miles west
  • In 1973 Syrians completed Tabka Dam, one of the world's largest on this river they call al Furat
  • This river which begins in Turkey joins the Tigris River in Iraq
  • This river is described in Genesis as one of 4 flowing out of Eden

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