Tigris

Iraq's ancient river

The Tigris is a major river in southwestern Asia, flowing from the mountains of eastern Turkey through Iraq to join the Euphrates near the Persian Gulf.

Together with the Euphrates, it defined ancient Mesopotamia—the "land between the rivers"—where some of the earliest civilizations arose.

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers cradle the history of human settlement.

ancient

Mesopotamia

Tigris-Euphrates river region

EuphratesMajor Iraqi river
BabylonAncient Mesopotamian capital
SumerAncient southern Mesopotamia

Assyria · Ur · Nineveh · cuneiform · ziggurat · Gilgamesh · Hammurabi · Nebuchadnezzar · irrigation · civilization

modern

Iraq

Middle Eastern republic

BaghdadIraqi seat of government
BasraIraqi port city
MosulIraqi city on Tigris

Kurdistan · Euphrates · oil · Gulf War · Saddam Hussein · Shiite · Sunni · Kurd · Arab · dam

river

Euphrates

Major Iraqi river

confluenceMeeting point of streams
tributaryStream entering larger river
floodplainFlood-prone riverside lowland

silt · irrigation · delta · sediment · meander · basin · channel · freshwater · bank · streamflow

geography

source

Point of origin

mouthOral opening
watershedDrainage area boundary
elevationHeight above reference point

terrain · Turkey · Iraq · Syria · Persian Gulf · Kurdistan · fluvial · topography · geomorphology · longitude

mythology

Gilgamesh

Mesopotamian epic protagonist

IshtarBabylonian goddess of love
MardukBabylonian supreme deity
AnuMesopotamian heaven deity

Tiamat · epic · flood myth · creation · Utnapishtim · underworld · immortality · divine · tablet

Tigris

Mesopotamia

Iraq

Euphrates

source

Gilgamesh

Tigris

Opposites

Phrases

Categories

Family