Tigris

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geographical feature major river river

The Tigris is a major river in Western Asia that, together with the Euphrates, forms the historical Mesopotamian heartland and flows through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

Aliases (7)

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical feature → major river → river →
closelyAssociatedRiver	Euphrates →
continent	Asia →
countryTraversed	Iraq → Syria → Turkey →
emptiesInto	Shatt al-Arab →
flowsThrough	Iraq → Syria → Turkey →
forms	Mesopotamian heartland →
formsBasinWith	Euphrates →
formsHistoricalRegionWith	Euphrates →
hasBasinCountry	Iran → Iraq → Syria → Turkey →
hasMajorTributary	Adhaim River → Batman River → Diyala River → Greater Zab → Khabur River (Tigris tributary) → Lesser Zab →
historicallyAssociatedWith	Akkad → Assyria → Babylonia → Sumer →
historicalRegion	Mesopotamia →
locatedIn	Western Asia →
mouthLocatedIn	Iraq →
nameInArabic	دجلة →
nameInKurdish	Dijla →
nameInTurkish	Dicle →
partOf	Mesopotamia →
passesThroughCity	Amarah → Baghdad → Basra → Diyarbakır → Kut → Mosul → Samarra → Tikrit →
riverSystem	Tigris–Euphrates river system →
sourceCountry	Turkey →
sourceMountainRange	Taurus Mountains →
sourceRegion	Taurus Mountains →
ultimatelyEmptiesInto	Persian Gulf →
usedFor	drinking water supply → hydroelectric power → irrigation → navigation →

Referenced by (48)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Al-Awja ("Tigris River") → Amarah ("Tigris River") → Baghdad ("Tigris River") → Kut ("Tigris River") → Mosul ("Tigris River") → Samarra ("Tigris River") → Tikrit ("Tigris River") →	locatedOnRiver
Batman River ("Tigris River") → Diyala River ("Tigris River") → Greater Zab → Khabur River (Tigris tributary) ("Tigris River") → Lesser Zab →	tributaryOf
Batman River ("Tigris River") → Diyala River ("Tigris River") → Khabur River (Tigris tributary) ("Tigris River in northern Iraq") → Lesser Zab →	flowsInto
Arab world → Garden of Eden → Northern Iraq ("Tigris River") →	hasRiver
Batman River ("Tigris River") → Khabur River (Tigris tributary) ("Tigris River") →	mouthOfWaterBody
Dijla →	alternativeNameOf
al-Hallaj ("Tigris River (ashes scattered)") →	burialPlace
Middle East and North Africa →	containsRiver
Armenian Highlands ("Tigris River") →	drainageBasin
Shatt al-Arab →	formedByConfluenceOf
Euphrates →	formsConfluenceWith
Battle of the Zab ("Tigris River basin") →	geographicalContext
Dicle →	hasAlternativeName
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay →	hasRollerCoaster
Diyala River ("Tigris River") →	joins
Mesopotamia ("Tigris River") →	locatedBetween
Batman River ("Upper Tigris Basin") →	locatedIn
Hatra ("Tigris River") →	locatedNear
Ashur ("Tigris River") →	locatedOn
Kut ("Tigris River") →	locatedOnWaterway
Mesopotamia ("Tigris River") →	majorRiver
Amarah ("Tigris River") →	majorRiverNearby
Tigris–Euphrates river system →	majorRivers
Greater Zab →	mouth
Dijla ("Tigris River") →	nameFor
Tigris ("دجلة") →	nameInArabic
Basra →	nearRiverConfluence
Greater Zab ("Tigris basin") →	partOf
Dicle →	refersTo
Iraq →	river
Southern Iraq ("Tigris River") →	traversedBy
Eastern Turkey ("Tigris River") →	traversedByRiver