Tadmur (; also spelled, Tadmor ; ancient Palmyra ) is a city in central Syria, administratively part of the Homs Governorate, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor in the middle of the Syrian Desert.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

Anah, or Ana, is an Iraqi town on the Euphrates river, approximately mid-way between the Gulf of Alexandretta and the Persian Gulf.

( 16th century BC ) refers to it is improbable ; but we seem to be justified in holding Anah to be the town " in the middle of the Euphrates " opposite ( ina put ) to which

While trying to swim across the dangerous Euphrates, Abd al-Rahman is said to have become separated from his brother Yahiya, who began swimming back towards the horsemen, possibly from fear of drowning.

In other games, such as Tigris and Euphrates, some information is hidden from players.

It is impossible to define narrowly the boundaries of this early land of Chaldea, and one may only locate it generally in the low, marshy, alluvial land about the estuaries of the Tigris and Euphrates, which then discharged their waters through separate mouths into the sea.

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

The Strata Diocletiana, which ran from the Euphrates to Palmyra and northeast Arabia, is the classic Diocletianic frontier system, consisting of an outer road followed by tightly spaced forts followed by further fortifications in the rear.

In these texts, written in Sumerian, the Euphrates is called Buranuna ( logographic: UD. KIB. NUN ).

The Euphrates is the longest river of Western Asia.

The length of the Shatt al-Arab, which connects the Euphrates and the Tigris with the Persian Gulf, is given by various sources as.

The name of the third river is Tigris ; it flows east of Assyria And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into four main regions: the desert ( west of the Euphrates ), Upper Mesopotamia ( between the upper Tigris and Euphratesh rivers ), the northern highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Lower Mesopotamia, the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.

The uplands region, between the Tigris north of Samarra and the Euphrates north of Hit, is known as Al Jazira ( the island ) and is part of a larger area that extends westward into Syria between the two rivers and into Turkey.

Here the Tigris and Euphrates rivers lie above the level of the plain in many places, and the whole area is a river delta interlaced by the channels of the two rivers and by irrigation canals.

The desert zone, an area lying west and southwest of the Euphrates River, is a part of the Syrian Desert and Arabian Desert, which covers sections of Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia and most of the Arabian Peninsula.

The Euphrates originates in Turkey, is augmented by the Balikh and Khabur rivers in Syria, and enters Iraq in the northwest.

Both the Tigris and the Euphrates break into a number of channels in the marshland area, and the flow of the rivers is substantially reduced by the time they come together at Al Qurnah.

1, 015 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

Mesopotamia ( from the: " between rivers "; ( bilād al-rāfidayn ); ( beth nahrain ): " land of rivers ") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris – Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.

The longest and most important river is the Euphrates, which represents more than 80 percent of Syria's water resources.

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

Discharge in these two months accounts for 36 percent of the total annual discharge of the Euphrates, or even 60 – 70 percent according to one source, while low runoff occurs in summer and autumn.

Enki was considered a god of life and replenishment, and was often depicted with two streams of water emanating from his shoulders, one the Tigris, the other the Euphrates.

As one of the wealthiest and more populous provinces of the Roman Empire, it is estimated that the population of Roman Syria in the early Roman Empire was only exceeded in the mid-20th century, when it may have been as high as 7-8 million or more, if Palestine and Jordan are included, but not including the eastern section of modern day Syria beyond the Euphrates.

* The governor of Syria, Avidius Cassius, one of Lucius Verus ' generals, crosses the Euphrates and invades Parthian territory.

The body of pilgrims, forming a band of 42, 360, having completed the long and dreary journey of some four months, from the banks of the Euphrates to Jerusalem, were animated in all their proceedings by a strong religious impulse, and therefore one of their first concerns was to restore their ancient house of worship by rebuilding their destroyed Temple and reinstituting the sacrificial rituals known as the korbanot.

Nippur was situated on both sides of the Shatt-en-Nil canal, one of the earliest courses of the Euphrates, between the present bed of that river and the Tigris, almost 160 km southeast of Baghdad.

The fourth century Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus ( 325 / 330 – after 391 ) said, “ From there ( Harran ) two different royal highways lead to Persia: the one on the left through Adiabene and over the Tigris ; the one on the right, through Assyria and across the Euphrates .” Not only did Harran have easy access to both the Assyrian and Babylonian roads, but also to north road to the Euphrates that provided easy access to Malatiyah and Asia Minor.

This association of Marduk and Ea, while indicating primarily the passing of the supremacy once enjoyed by Eridu to Babylon as a religious and political centre, may also reflect an early dependence of Babylon upon Eridu, not necessarily of a political character but, in view of the spread of culture in the Euphrates valley from the south to the north, the recognition of Eridu as the older centre on the part of the younger one.

A potential Great Khan, Hulagu took the majority of his army with him, and left a much smaller force west of the Euphrates of only around one or two tumens ( 10, 000 – 20, 000 men ) under his best general, the Nestorian Christian Naiman Turk Kitbuqa Noyan.

Commagene being one of the Seleucid successor states occupied a land in between the Taurus mountains and the Euphrates.

Events that seem to be the same include the crossing of the Euphrates and subsequent death of " Legs " Lane in a hut nearby ; the drinking of radioactive / contaminated water by a lone SAS member running for Syria ; the patrol being split into 3 and 5 ; the group of 3 splitting up after one dies of hypothermia, and the incident regarding a member who thought his hands had turned black when he was indeed wearing gloves, the remaining two of that group splitting up after one decides to follow a goat-herder.

However, according to the Tombos Stela of his successor, Thutmose I, when Thutmose led a campaign into Asia all the way to the Euphrates, he found no one who fought against him.

The area around Al Diwaniyah, which is well irrigated from the nearby Euphrates river, is often considered to be one on the most fertile parts of Iraq, and is heavily cultivated.

The Gihon is mentioned as one of four rivers ( along with the Tigris, Euphrates, and Pishon ) issuing out of the Garden of Eden that branched from a single river within the garden.

The Pishon is one of four rivers ( along with Hiddekel ( Tigris ), Phrath ( Euphrates ) and Gihon ) mentioned in the Biblical Book of Genesis.

Two different groups are called Muški in the Assyrian sources ( Diakonoff 1984: 115 ), one from the 12th to 9th centuries, located near the confluence of the Arsanias and the Euphrates (" Eastern Mushki "), and the other in the 8th to 7th centuries, located in Cappadocia and Cilicia (" Western Mushki ").

On June 16, 2006, one American Soldier ( SPC David J. Babineau ) was killed and two other Soldiers ( PFC Thomas L. Tucker and PV2 Kristian Menchaca ) were kidnapped near the Jurf as Sakhr Bridge ( located on the Euphrates River in southwestern Yusufiyah ) after their HMMWV was attacked.

The body of one of these missing Soldiers, PFC Joseph Anzack was found in the Euphrates River in Musayyib by members of D Company, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment ( Airborne ) and members of the local Iraq police force.