Dicle

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geographical feature river transboundary river

Dicle is the Turkish name for the Tigris River, one of the major rivers of Western Asia flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
In Turkey the Tigris River is called Dicle	1

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical feature ⓘ river ⓘ transboundary river ⓘ
associatedWith	Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: ancient Mesopotamia
basinCountry	Iraq ⓘ Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
countryNameUsage	Dicle self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: In Turkey the Tigris River is called Dicle
emptiesInto	Persian Gulf ⓘ
flowsDirection	southeast ⓘ
flowsThrough	Iraq ⓘ Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
formsPartOfBorderBetween	Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Dijla ⓘ Dijlah ⓘ Tigris ⓘ
hasBasinAreaApproxSqKm	375000 ⓘ
hasHistoricalSignificanceFor	Mesopotamia ⓘ surface form: Mesopotamian civilizations
hasMajorCityOnBanks	Baghdad ⓘ Basra ⓘ Diyarbakır ⓘ Mosul ⓘ
hasMajorTributary	Batman River ⓘ Bohtan River ⓘ Diyala River ⓘ Greater Zab ⓘ Lesser Zab ⓘ
lengthApproxKm	1850 ⓘ
locatedIn	Western Eurasia ⓘ surface form: Western Asia
majorRiverOf	Mesopotamia ⓘ
mentionedIn	various ancient Near Eastern texts ⓘ
mouthLocatedIn	Shatt al-Arab ⓘ
nameInLanguage	Turkish ⓘ
parallelTo	Euphrates ⓘ
partOf	Fertile Crescent ⓘ Tigris–Euphrates river system ⓘ
refersTo	Tigris ⓘ
region	Lower Mesopotamia ⓘ Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
sourceCountry	Turkey ⓘ
sourceLocatedIn	Eastern Turkey ⓘ
tributaryOf	Shatt al-Arab ⓘ
usedFor	hydroelectric power ⓘ irrigation ⓘ water supply ⓘ

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Dicle → countryNameUsage → Dicle self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: In Turkey the Tigris River is called Dicle

Tigris → nameInTurkish → Dicle ⓘ