Euphrátēs

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ancient river historical geographic feature river

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.

Aliases (1)

Borysthenes ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient river → historical geographic feature → river →
associatedWithAncientCivilization	Akkad → Assyria NERFINISHED → Babylonia → Sumer →
correspondsTo	Euphrates River NERFINISHED →
emptiesInto	Shatt al-Arab →
flowsNearModernCity	Aleppo → Fallujah → Nasiriyah → Ramadi →
flowsThroughCountry	Iraq → Syria → Turkey →
flowsThroughHistoricalRegion	Mesopotamia →
flowsThroughModernCity	Deir ez-Zor → Raqqa →
formsRiverSystemWith	Tigris NERFINISHED →
hasBasinCountry	Iraq → Syria → Turkey →
hasMajorDam	Atatürk Dam → Haditha Dam → Tabqa Dam →
hasMajorTributary	Balikh River → Khabur River →
hasModernName	Euphrates NERFINISHED →
hasNameInGreek	Εὐφράτης NERFINISHED →
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	Western Asia →
mentionedIn	Hebrew Bible → classical Greek literature → various ancient Near Eastern texts →
mouthLocatedIn	Iraq →
nameLanguage	Ancient Greek →
partOfDrainageBasin	Tigris–Euphrates river system NERFINISHED →
sourceLocatedIn	Turkey →
ultimatelyEmptiesInto	Persian Gulf →
usedFor	agriculture → irrigation → transportation →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Berezan Island ("Borysthenes") →	hasAncientName
Euphrates →	nameInGreek