Euphrátēs

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Euphrátēs is the ancient Greek name for the Euphrates, one of the longest and most historically significant rivers of Western Asia that flows through modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Borysthenes 1
Euphrátēs canonical 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient river
historical geographic feature
river
associatedWithAncientCivilization Akkad
Assyria
Babylon
surface form: Babylonia

Sumer
correspondsTo Euphrates
surface form: Euphrates River
emptiesInto Shatt al-Arab
flowsNearModernCity Aleppo
Fallujah
Nasiriyah
Al-Ramadi
surface form: Ramadi
flowsThroughCountry Iraq
Syria
Turkey
flowsThroughHistoricalRegion Mesopotamia
flowsThroughModernCity Deir ez-Zor
Raqqa
formsRiverSystemWith Tigris
hasBasinCountry Iraq
Syria
Turkey
hasMajorDam Atatürk Dam
Haditha Dam
Tabqa Dam
hasMajorTributary Balikh River
Khabur River
hasModernName Euphrates
hasNameInGreek Euphrates
surface form: Εὐφράτης
historicalSignificance major river of ancient Mesopotamia
importantFor ancient trade routes
development of early urban societies
fertile alluvial agriculture
knownAsOneOf longest rivers of Western Asia
lengthApproxKm 2800
locatedInContinent Asia
locatedInRegion Middle East
surface form: Western Asia
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

classical Greek literature
various ancient Near Eastern texts
mouthLocatedIn Iraq
nameLanguage Ancient Greek
partOfDrainageBasin Tigris–Euphrates river system
sourceLocatedIn Turkey
ultimatelyEmptiesInto Persian Gulf
usedFor agriculture
irrigation
transportation

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Referenced by (2)

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

Euphrates nameInGreek Euphrátēs
Berezan Island hasAncientName Euphrátēs
this entity surface form: Borysthenes