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Tiber

River in Italy that flows through Rome; its length from its source in the Apennines to the Tyrrhenian Sea is 400 km/250 mi. It is Italy's third longest river.

The Tiber rises on the eastern borders of Tuscany, and flows generally south past Perugia and Rome to the sea near Lido di Roma. It is joined near Narni by the Nera, its most important tributary; other tributaries are the Aniene, the Chiani, and the Paglia. The Tiber empties into the sea via two channels: the silted-up Fiumara to the south; and the canalized Fiumicino. On the latter branch, close to Rome's international airport, is a hexagonal port built by Trajan. The land mass between the channels was once known as the Sacred Island, or the Isle of Venus. Small ships can sail up river as far as Rome.



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When it became known to the Britons on the shore of the yellow Tiber that their intelligent compatriot, Mr Sparkler, was made one of the Lords of their Circumlocution Office, they took it as a piece of news with which they had no nearer concern than with any other piece of news--any other Accident or Offence--in the English papers.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
In that land are mountains far higher than the Alban mountains; the vast Roman Campagna, a hundred miles long and full forty broad, is really small compared to the United States of America; the Tiber, that celebrated river of ours, which stretches its mighty course almost two hundred miles, and which a lad can scarcely throw a stone across at Rome, is not so long, nor yet so wide, as the American Mississippi--nor yet the Ohio, nor even the Hudson.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Why, you see, he has a good understanding with the shepherds in the plains, the fishermen of the Tiber, and the smugglers of the coast.
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