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Tigris

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Tigris

River flowing through Turkey and Iraq (see also Mesopotamia), joining the Euphrates 80 km/50 mi northwest of Basra, where it forms the Shatt-al-Arab; length 1,600 km/1,000 mi.

It rises in Turkey on the southern slopes of the Taurus range, and flows east across Turkey through Diyarbakir, entering Iraq east of Nusaybin. It then flows southeast to Mosul and Samarra and south through Baghdad, eventually flowing into the Gulf. It is navigable to within 50 km/31 mi of Mosul.



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But not to speak of the passage through the whole length of the Mediterranean, and another passage up the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, such a supposition would involve the complete circumnavigation of all Africa in three days, not to speak of the Tigris waters, near the site of Nineveh, being too shallow for any whale to swim in.
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mumbled Snider again, and then a half-forgotten picture from an old natural history sprang to my mind, and I recognized in the frightful beast the Felis tigris of ancient Asia, specimens of which had, in former centuries, been exhibited in the Western Hemisphere.
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There the finest fish in the Tigris were to be found, but fishing was strictly forbidden.
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