The marshlands are natural lowlands located on the lower reaches of the rivers of the southern region, and the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers used to flow into them in the flood seasons and thus raise water levels.

This region was the heart of ancient Mesopotamia, where the world s first known cities sprang up near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

The need for irrigation led the Sumerians, and later the Akkadians, to build their cities along the Tigris and Euphrates and the branches of these rivers.

After the Siege of Gaza, Alexander advanced from Syria towards the heart of the Persian empire, crossing both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers without any opposition.

In the river valley between the Tigris and the Euphrates, it was possible to grow a surplus of food that allowed for an organization of society where not everybody had to be in the fields all the time.

This is a diatom, which is made of silicates.

The books and the solution get thrown in the Tigris River.

Babylon declined after the founding of Seleucia on the Tigris, the new Seleucid Empire capital.

Bydgoszcz (, , ) is a city located in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers.

In the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel,

And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel

Here's an interesting one for the IT world bio silicon. This is a diatom, which is made of silicates.

IND 84 011 1 INDIA Groundwater Studies in the Kasai and Subarnarekha River Basins. 36 pp., 2 maps.

Baghdad has at least 12 bridges spanning the Tigris river joining the east and west of the city.

Whatever units that remained after 1991 were used primarily for safeguarding Saddam's palaces on the Tigris river.

Baghdad and it was said that the Tigris, a river, ran blue for weeks because of the ink that dissolved in the waters from the Bagdad library.

The lack of operational sewage pumping stations and treatment plants constitutes the main cause of environmental pollution of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

Today, the remains of the city lie in Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, approximately south of the city of Baghdad.

Hastings is a city in Dakota and Washington counties, in the U.S. state of Minnesota, near the confluence of the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers.

And just as the violent and capricious Tigris and Euphrates rivers shaped the worldview of early Mesopotamians, the Nile shaped the world view of the Egyptians.

centred on the Upper Tigris river, in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq), that came to rule regional empires a number of times through history.

Both DGLA and AA can be made from the omega 6 linoleic acid (LA) in the human body, or can be taken in directly through food.

(b) The team took water samples from 15 sites and from various segments of the Tigris, Euphrates, Lesser Zab, Greater Zab and Diyala rivers and the Habbaniyah Lake.

All the books from Bait al Hikma library, the most famous library in its day, were thrown in the Tigris River, and the Tigris changes color with ink.

7. Also stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and the Oubangi Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of the Congo River Basin Commission

Speak and say, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh Behold, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lies in the midst of his rivers, that has said, 'My river is my own, and I have made it for myself.'

Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

The current dam building plans threaten the Salween River s Grand Canyon a UNESCO World Heritage site and the pristine, environmentally sensitive areas through which the Brahmaputra and the Mekong flow.

Al Awja ( also known as Owja, Al Auja or Al Ouja) is a village 8 miles (13 km) south of Tikrit, in Iraq on the western bank of the Tigris.

18. Stresses the importance of the restoration of river traffic, welcomes in this regard the reopening of the Congo and Oubangui Rivers, and expresses its support for the establishment of a Congo River Basin Commission

In accordance with an agreement with Bulgaria, a third project has been initiated to finance a study on a management and development plan for the coastal zone located at the mouths of Veleka and Rezovska rivers, near the border with Turkey.

Now, however, these activists have become more assertive, launching campaigns against a number of proposed dams along the Nu and Jinsha Rivers in Yunnan and the Min River in Sichuan.

The canyon which it has created is the deepest in Africa and one of the deepest in the world, at some points having a depth of over 2000 meters (6,562 feet).

70. A regional initiative straddled environment and integration by assisting the five countries bordering on the Paraná and Paraguay rivers to rehabilitate the waterway for increased traffic and gauge the environmental impact of such rehabilitation.

Park had at that time adopted the theory that the Niger and the Congo were one, and in a memorandum drawn up before he left Britain he wrote My hopes of returning by the Congo are not altogether fanciful.

The Afro Colombian population may be found in the Pacific and Atlantic coastal regions, the mining areas of the Departments of Caldas, Antioquia and Santander, in the Cauca and Magdalena river valleys, in the agroindustrial belts and in the outskirts of the cities of Cali and Medellín.

Each factor is to be given the weight warranted by the circumstances peculiar to each individual river basin, or group of basins, and all factors so weighted are to be considered together and a determination arrived at on the basis of the whole.

Some librarians escape, and over the course of days and weeks, they dip the stones into the Tigris and suck up that collective wisdom that we all think is lost to civilization.

Bamboo trees are not useful to urban residents, but to people like Mung Ra who live alongside the Myitsone confluence of the Mali and N mai rivers, which forms the Irrawaddy River 26 miles north of the Kachin State capital Myitkyina bamboo is a crucial source of income.

The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy clearly lacks the capacity to address illegal mining in such inaccessible locations and there is still no permanent UNMIL deployment north of the Bomi Hills between the Lofa and Moro Rivers.

We believe that progress in the peace process and in finding solutions for water issues between Israel and Palestine would also help to unblock progress in the broader region, between the parties on the Jordan, the Orontes, the Tigris, and the Euphrates rivers.