the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations.
By 2000 BC the great city of Babylon dominated the Euphrates about 60 miles south of present-day Baghdad.
Jerusalem has had powerful Kings ruling over the whole of Trans-Euphrates, and taxes, tribute and duty were paid to them.
"The current level of the Euphrates cannot feed the small tributaries that give water to the marshlands," he continued. "the people there have started to dig Wells for their own survival."
It has a time-honored history and culture. The valleys of the Yellow River, the Indus River, the Euphrates and the Tigris are known as cradles of human civilization.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
This is a copy of the letter that Tattenai, governor of Trans-Euphrates, and Shethar-Bozenai and their associates, the officials of Trans-Euphrates, sent to King Darius.
Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
Some of the best farmland of the Fertile Crescent is in a narrow strip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
In the marshes, where the Euphrates nears the end of its 1,730-mile journey and mingles with the less salty waters of the Tigris before emptying into the Persian Gulf, the situation is grave.
Thirty miles to the south,Ezra,the Old Testament prophet,is buried,while on the far eastern horizon,the Euphrates and Tigris 2 rivers meet,310 miles south of Baghdad,in a lush plain that the oldest creation legends hailed as the Garden of Eden.
In the north beside the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.
Ancient Civilization in the Valley of the Tigris and Euphrates: The History and Current Status of Chronological Research
In fact, one has to go back 4,500 years to find the single historical example of a true "water war" – a dispute between the city-states of Lagash and Umma on the Tigris-Euphrates.
Another, the Euphrates, was many miles away.
There were broad rivers like the Tigress and Euphrates to be crossed.
And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one that goes east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
The Euphrates, the colors of the waters.
Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.
古希臘歷史學家希羅多德（Herodotus）提到，古代的美索不達米亞人(Mesopotamians)就使用棕櫚木製的木桶沿着幼發拉底河(Euphrates)傳送酒製品。
They did not travel' very much or very far, but boating excursions were a common summer pleasure both on the Nile and on the Euphrates.
In the north by the river Euphrates They have stumbled and fallen.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
Deacon Euphrates had been assigned to be early in the line and the first to open an account.
"Make a move now, and go on your way into the hill-country of the Amorites and the places near it, in the Arabah and the hill-country and in the lowlands and in the South and by the seaside, all the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates."
"Of Egypt: about the army of Pharaoh-neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, overcame in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah."
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