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• Text:EBD:Chebar
  ...dnezzar, the Nahr Malcha, the greatest in Mesopotamia, which connected the Tigris with the Euphrates, in the excavation of which the Jewish captives were pro
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• Text:EBD:Calah
  ...ts site is now marked probably by the Nimrud ruins on the left bank of the Tigris. These cover an area of about 1,000 acres, and are second only in size and
  749 bytes (130 words) - 05:24, 30 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Asshur
  ...city represented by the mounds of Kalah Sherghat, on the west bank of the Tigris. This city was founded by Bel-kap-kapu about B.C. 1700. At a later date the
  690 bytes (110 words) - 17:31, 10 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Mesopotamia
  ...given by the Greeks and Romans to the region between the Euphrates and the Tigris (Gen. 24:10; Deut. 23:4; Judg. 3:8, 10). In the Old Testament it is mention
  967 bytes (150 words) - 18:16, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Gourd
  ...to the East. "It is grown in great abundance on the alluvial banks of the Tigris and on the plain between the river and the ruins of Nineveh." At the presen
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• Text:EBD:Shushan
  ...the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is the mo
  1 KB (219 words) - 14:57, 17 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Babylon, kingdom of
  ...12:13), was an extensive province in Central Asia along the valley of the Tigris from the Persian Gulf northward for some 300 miles. It was famed for its fe The salt-marshes at the mouths of the Euphrates and Tigris were called Marratu, "the bitter" or "salt", the Merathaim of Jer. 50:21. T
  4 KB (646 words) - 13:11, 15 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Eden
  ...oubtedly be sought for somewhere along the course of the great streams the Tigris and the Euphrates of Western Asia, in "the land of Shinar" or Babylonia. Th
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• Text:EBD:Syria
  ...rth-east of [[Phoenicia]], extending to beyond the [[Euphrates]] and the [[Tigris]]. [[Mesopotamia]] is called ([[Genesis 24:10]]; [[Deuteronomy 23:4]]) Aram
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• Text:EBD:Euphrates
  ..., they meet and form the majestic stream, which is at length joined by the Tigris at Koornah, after which it is called Shat-el-Arab, which runs in a deep and
  2 KB (316 words) - 14:20, 6 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Assyria
  ...a mountainous region lying to the north of Babylonia, extending along the Tigris as far as to the high mountain range of Armenia, the Gordiaean or Carduchia
  5 KB (759 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Chaldea
  ...y so named is a vast plain formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending to about 400 miles along the course of these rivers, and about 1
  3 KB (469 words) - 19:36, 1 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Ur
  ...le above the point where it receives the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris. It was formerly a maritime city, as the waters of the Persian Gulf reached
  3 KB (588 words) - 15:34, 17 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Nineveh
  This "exceeding great city" lay on the eastern or left bank of the river Tigris, along which it stretched for some 30 miles, having an average breadth of 1 ...from the Caucasus and the Caspian to the Persian Gulf, and from beyond the Tigris to Asia Minor and Egypt, it vanished like a dream" (Nah. 2:6-11). Its end w
  7 KB (1,166 words) - 20:15, 14 November 2008
• Text:EBD:Babylon
  ...am. It stood on the Euphrates, about 200 miles above its junction with the Tigris, which flowed through its midst and divided it into two almost equal parts.
  4 KB (612 words) - 05:22, 25 October 2008
• Text:EBD:Phenicia
  ...rged on the Phoenician coast; the centres of commerce on the Euphrates and Tigris forwarding their goods by way of Tyre to the Nile, to Arabia, and to the we
  4 KB (725 words) - 15:47, 7 November 2008
• Text:God's Word to Women:Lesson 67
  ...in the days of Abraham over all Mesopotamia, from the mouth of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates to the Mediterranean Coast, and Sarah but yielded to the requ
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• Theophilus of Antioch
  We gather from his writings that he was born a pagan, not far from the [[Tigris]] and [[Euphrates]], and was led to embrace Christianity by studying the Ho
  11 KB (1,734 words) - 12:47, 6 December 2009

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