Euphrates

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1. Euphrates - Noun

2. Euphrates - Proper noun

Meaning

a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia

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The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers created the 'Fertile Crescent' where some of the first civilizations emerged. Today they are immensely important resources, politically as well as geographically. Stephen Kinzer

After dispatching Tiamat with the "arrows of his winds" down her throat and constructing the heavens with the arch of her ribs, Enlil places her tail in the sky as the Milky Way, and her crying eyes become the source of the Tigris and Euphrates. Source: Internet

After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. Source: Internet

Arabia Deserta was the entire desert region extending north from Arabia Felix to Palmyra and the Euphrates, including all the area between Pelusium on the Nile and Babylon. Source: Internet

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 130, 279 n. 38; "Hadrian to the Antonines", 163, citing Prosopographia Imperii Romani 2 M 169; Millar, Near East, 112. In response, Roman forces were moved downstream, to cross the Euphrates at a more southerly point. Source: Internet

At the upper end of this gulf there is a market-town designated by law called Apologus, situated near Charaex Spasini and the River Euphrates." Source: Internet

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