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Definition of Tigris

1. Noun. An Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River.

Definition of Tigris

1. Proper noun. A river in Southwest Asia flowing 1,150 miles east-southeast from Turkey through Iraq. It forms the eastern edge of classical Mesopotamia. It unites with the Euphrates River to form the Shatt-al-Arab before flowing into the Persian Gulf. ¹

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Literary usage of Tigris

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"The Tigris was still on their left ; their hopes and provisions were ... In the silence of the night they swam the Tigris, surprised an unguarded post of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In a word, Assyria was anciently seated in the upper Tigris Valley, in possession of several great city- centres. These . two important countries were thus ..."

3. Selections from Strabo: With an Introduction on Strabo's Life and Works by Strabo, Henry Fanshawe Tozer (1893)
"THE TAURUS RANGE ; THE EUPHRATES AND Tigris ; THE LAKE ARSENE. ... In the neighbourhood of the eastern source of the Tigris is the Lake Arsène (Lake of Van) ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, William Smith (1862)
"It does not of Armenia near the sources of the Tigris, rise near the Tigris, but far to the west, mentioned by St. Epiphanius (Hares. ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"... was fixed as the boundary between the two mon- u£en the archies.81 That river which rose near the Tigris, was increased. a few miles below Nisibis, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Asshur. the Lower Zab join the Tigris, was the chief city of Assyria until the reign of Asshur-bel-kala, son of Tiglath-Pileser I, c. ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"Malcha, into the river Tigris, at some distance above the cities. From the information of the peasants. Julian ascertained the vestiges of this ancient work ..."

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