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	Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Aramaic Assyrian: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; Hebrew: חידקל; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq.
		The Tigris is approximately 1,800 km (1,150 miles) long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey and flowing in a generally southeasterly direction until it joins the Euphrates near Al Qurna in southern Iraq.
		River trade declined in importance during the 20th century as the Basra-Baghdad-Mosul railway and roads took over much of the freight traffic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigris (540 words)

	Tigris River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Tigris (Syriac Aramaic : Deqlath, Arabic : دجلة;, Dijla, Turkish : Dicle; biblical Hiddekil) is the eastern memberof the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq.
		The Tigris is approximately 1,800 km (1,150 miles) long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey and flowing in a generallysoutheasterly direction until it joins the Euphrates near Al Qurna in southern Iraq.
		River tradedeclined in importance during the 20th century as the Basra-Baghdad-Mosul railway and roads took over much of the freight traffic.
	www.therfcc.org /tigris-river-33076.html (361 words)

	Tigris River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The intakes at the rivers were protected by dams, which Strabo called "artificial cataracts," and they are said to have been provided with sluices and gates to regulate the flow of the water.
		Tigris is used by the Septuagint and occurs also in several of the apocryphal books, as in Tobit 6:1, Judith 1:6, and Ecclesiaticus 24:21.
		Tigris is used by the Septuagint as the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew Hiddekel.
	www.ancientroute.com /water/tigrisrv.htm (322 words)

	MSN Encarta - Tigris
		Tigris (Arabic Dijlah, Turkish Dicle), river in southwestern Asia, rising in Turkey and flowing through Iraq before joining the Euphrates to form the Shatt al Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.
		The river originates in the mountains of eastern Turkey and flows southeast into Iraq after briefly forming the extreme eastern portion of the border between Syria and Turkey.
		The Tigris is too shallow for navigation by all but very small boats, especially south of Baghdād where the river fans out and meanders through dense marshland.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761574188 (467 words)

	Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Syriac Aramaic: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة;, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq.
		Another name for this water used from the time of Persian Empire is Arvand which has the same meaning.
		Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, is on the western bank of the Tigris, while the port-city of Basra straddles both the Tigris and Euphrates.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tigris_River (477 words)

	Tigris-Euphrates River Dispute
		The major contribution of the river to the civilizations was its suitability to irrigation, and as a result the earliest farmlands were developed around the Tigris river.
		The Tigris river is a different case than the Euphrates if contribution patterns compared, where the main stream in Turkey, along with the Khabur river (not to be confused with the Khabur shared by Turkey and Syria farther west) only accounts for an annual flow of 20.5 bmc.
		The Bekhme Dam on the Greater Zap, the Dokan Dam and the Dibbis Dam on the Lesser Zap, the Darbandikhan Dam and the Hamrin Dam on the Diyala are the remaining operational dams on the Tigris river.
	gurukul.ucc.american.edu /ted/ice/tigris.htm (4216 words)

	The Tigris River
		The Tigris River is 1,150 miles long and begins on the Armenian plateau in Turkey.
		Although the upper reaches of the Tigris are higher than the Euphrates, in southern Iraq the bed of the Tigris is lower than that of the Euphrates and the canals between the two rivers have their tailings in the Tigris, causing the water in these canals to flow from west to east..
		In ancient days, the Tigris either flowed where the Shatt al Gharraf is today, or the Tigris had a branch that flowed down the Shatt al Gharraf or, possibly, the Shatt al Gharraf started as a manmade canal through the marshes and the Tigris overflowed into it.
	www.jameswbell.com /a008thetigrisriver.html (525 words)

	WATER RESOURCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: FORTHCOMING PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		According to the balance sheet of water resources versus water uses from the Tigris river prepared by Kolars (1992), the amount of surplus water in the Tigris river is 11.9 bcm/year.
		Although Turkey, controls the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, 40 per cent of its arable land is in southeastern Anatolia, which suffers from a general shortage of water.
		In case of the Euphrates-Tigris river systems, the riparian states want only to share the water which is generated in Turkey, but are neither willing to cooperate to develop new techniques in irrigation or plant pattern development, nor they are willing to share the water generated in their own territories.
	www.akdeniz.edu.tr /muhfak/publications/gap.html (6448 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Tigris River
		Consider Abdul Khalik, the director of the Mosul Dam on the Tigris River, an important source of drinking water and irrigation for residents and farmers of the arid Nineva province.
		The bridge, which spans the Tigris River, was supposed to have remained closed during the pilgrimage of an estimated one-million Shi'ites to a shrine in Kadhimiya to commemorate the death of a Shi'ite imam 12 centuries ago.
		The stampede on a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad was the greatest loss of Iraqi life in a single incident since the 2003 US-led invasion of the country to overthrow former dictator Saddam Hussein.
	news.surfwax.com /geography/files/Tigris_River.html (4810 words)

	Tigris
		At Qurna, Tigris joins with the Euphrates, and for the remaining 170 km to the outlet at the Persian Gulf, it is known as Shatt El Arab.
		The barrage has reduced the amount of silt carried with the water, an advantage for sailing on the river, as it is shallow, but its negative effect is that it has reduced the quality of the soil of the region.
		The Tigris has been an important river up through history, and was one of the main sources for the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations.
	www.i-cias.com /e.o/tigris.htm (204 words)

	Hydrology (from Tigris-Euphrates river system) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The regime of the Tigris and Euphrates depends heavily upon winter rains and spring snowmelt in the Taurus and Zagros mountains.
		dam on the Euphrates River in north-central Syria.
		One of the major rivers of Central Africa, the Ubangi is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-48099?tocId=48099 (917 words)

	Tigris River Pollution Critical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Described in legend as flowing from a source near the Garden of Eden, the Tigris is now choking with modern-day pollution that researchers say puts millions of Iraqis at risk.
		A short cruise still reveals a catalogue of culprits pumping waste into the Tigris -- and a glimpse of the rich history of a country said to be the birthplace of civilization.
		Environmentalists say Iraq's interim government must clean up a river that provides drinking water for Baghdad and much of southern Iraq, saying risks should not be overlooked even though the leadership is focused on crushing insurgents.
	www.aina.org /news/20040712133408.htm (648 words)

	Tigris & Euphrates Basin
		This means that a large proportion of the total falls as snow on the uplands and consequently the water is locked in the solid state on the mountain slopes until temperatures begin to rise in spring and early summer.
		Although Turkey controls the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, 40% of its arable land is in southeastern Anatolia, which suffers from a general shortage of water.
		The water of the Euphrates River is regulated by means of large reservoirs of the Keban and Atatürk Dams.
	www.providence.edu /polisci/students/mideast_water/tigres_1.htm (1065 words)

	Pollution Chokes the Tigris, a Main Source of Baghdad’s Drinking Water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Water from the Tigris River -- consumed by Iraqis in Baghdad every day -- is contaminated with war waste, and much of it goes untreated despite obligations of a US company to reconstruct vital facilities.
		A river man for most of his life, he has long been employed by a company that dredges the muddy Tigris, but which was recently incorporated into the Ministry of Water Resources.
		Tigris River water is a concentrated cocktail of pesticides, fertilizers, oil, gasoline and heavy metals, reports Dr. Husni Mohammed, an Iraqi who holds a PhD in Environmental and Biological Science and has researched the condition of the Tigris.
	newstandardnews.net /content?action=show_item&itemid=481 (1542 words)

	Tigris-Euphrates river system -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		great river system of Southwest Asia, comprising the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other in eastern Turkey and travel southeast through northern Syria and Iraq to the head of the Persian Gulf.
		The smallest, in the far east of the country, is that of the Aras River, which rises south of Erzurum and flows east for some 250 miles to the frontier with Azerbaijan, eventually reaching the Caspian Sea.
		The name is Greek for “land between the rivers.” As the muddy streams flooded and receded, their silt built the rich alluvial plain.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?eu=119612&tocid=48098&query=tigris-euphrates%20river (952 words)

	Tigris
		The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna, and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylonia and Assyria, its name was Idiqlat.
		The Tigris is about 1,850 km long and rises in the eastern Taurus mountain range, or Armenia, as it was once called.
		Today, the rivers Tigris and Euphrates unite some 165 km northwest of the shore of the Persian Gulf; their united course is the well-known Shatt al-Arab.
	www.livius.org /men-mh/mesopotamia/tigris.html (483 words)

	Tigris River -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Both rivers rise in the Armenian highlands of Turkey, where they are fed by melting winter snow.
		Eight of the twenty longest rivers in the world are found in Asia.
		In ancient times Iraq was called Mesopotamia, a Greek word meaning “land between the rivers.” This Middle Eastern country, located at the headwaters of the Persian Gulf, lies partly between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, a fertile area often regarded as the cradle of civilization (see ancient civilization).
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9277358?tocId=9277358 (966 words)

	Tigris River
		An Iraqi contractor was found beheaded near the Tigris River in Balad, police said, adding that the victim had worked at a US military base near the town.
		The Tigris river, snaking from north to south, bisects the city into the Arab right Â or west Â bank and the Kurdish left Â or east Â bank.
		He was on a river patrol on the Tigris River south of Baghdad when his squad leader fell overboard.
	conservation.mongabay.com /Tigris_River.htm (2938 words)

	Voices in the Wilderness : Iraq Struggles to Restore Its Endangered Tigris River
		Three months ago, for making exactly the same measurement in the Tigris, he and several other colleagues from the ministry were shot at, rounded up, hooded and handcuffed by the Iraqi police working with American troops who apparently decided that he had been acting suspiciously.
		It is still so extraordinary to see boats traveling any distance on the Tigris, which has become a smelly, shrunken, deserted, refuse-strewn ghost of its former splendor, that dozens of curious employees of a nearby power plant applauded and cheered when Mr.
		The river also has an abandoned feel, in part because one of Saddam Hussein’s many personal whimsies was to have river views unencumbered by boats.
	vitw.org /archives/79 (934 words)

	River Tigris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The constellation was created by the German astronomer Jakob Bartsch during the seventeenth century.
		River Tigris began at Ophiuchus then it meandered its way between Aquila, Hercules, Cygnus, Sagitta, Equuleus, and finally ended near Pegasus.
		Some of the stars of River Tigris became part of another obsolete constellation, Taurus Poniatovii, Poniatowski's bull.
	www.pa.msu.edu /people/horvatin/Astronomy_Facts/obsolete_pages/river_tigris.htm (85 words)

	Ilisu Dam, Tigris River, Turkey
		The Ilisu Hydroelectric Power Project on the Tigris River is the largest planned dam project in Turkey.
		On the Turkish part of the Tigris alone, at least nine dams have been constructed or have reached the feasibility stage.
		The WCD report recommends that where a government agency plans or facilitates the construction of a dam on a shared river in contravention of the principle of good faith negotiations between riparians, external financing bodies withdraw their support for projects and programmes promoted by that agency.
	www.irn.org /wcd/ilisu.shtml (875 words)

	Tigris River
		River that was a boundary of Mesopotamia, or the "land between the rivers" (Tigris and Euphrates) The Tigris was the eastern of the two rivers and flowed from a source deep in the Armenian mountains all the way to the Persian Gulf, about 1,200 miles.
		Both rivers were the lifeblood of Mesopotamian civilizations, giving them water and a vehicle for their trade and defense.
		This great site takes you back in time to the ancient days, when the Tigris and Euphrates were the main vehicles for trade.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/world/tigrisriverdef.htm (104 words)

	ABC News: Dozens of Bodies Found in Tigris River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		BAGHDAD, Iraq Apr 21, 2005 — Iraq's interim president announced Wednesday the recovery of more than 50 bodies from the Tigris River, saying the grisly discovery was proof of claims that dozens were abducted from an area south of the capital despite a fruitless search by Iraqi forces.
		Interim President Jalal Talabani did not say when or where the 50 bodies were pulled from the river, but he said all had been identified as hostages.
		Police and health officials said victims are sometimes killed and dumped in the river.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=689711 (403 words)

	Resources on the Tigris River from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tigris and Euphrates Basin: The Tigris The Tigris river also has its springs in the highlands of Eastern Turkey,
		Seleucia on the Tigris: Lying at the confluence of the Tigris River and a major canal from the Euphrates,
		MESOPOTAMIA (Between two Rivers) The Tigris and Euphrates: River sources is found in; from Armenia flows into the Persian Gulf; Euphrates 1724
	mongabay.org /conservation/Tigris_River.htm (687 words)

	Crosswalk.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Tigris, like the Euphrates, rises from two principal sources in the Armenian mountains, and flows into the Euphrates.
		These are the river of Zakko or eastern Khabour, the Great Zab (Zab Ala), the Lesser Zab (Zab Asfal), the Adhem, and the Diyaleh or ancient Gyndes.
		With him it is "the Great River." The Tigris, in its upper course, anciently ran through Armenia and Assyria.
	bible.crosswalk.com /Dictionaries/SmithsBibleDictionary/smt.cgi?number=T4295 (180 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Tigris River, Iraq
		MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Tigris River, Iraq
		The Tigris River as it flows through Iraq.
		Present-day Iraq occupies the greater part of the ancient land of Mesopotamia, the plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461550825/Tigris_River_Iraq.html (36 words)

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