Euphrates
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- proper noun
- /juːˈfreɪtiːz/
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Éufrates
- My vote for best preserved Roman fortress, however, goes to the castle of Zenobia, now called Halabia, on the banks of the Euphrates in eastern Syria.
- Euphrates River
- Euphrates River Basin
- Euphrates Dam
And then I had another six days by myself walking following the, the, the river Euphrates to the border.
- And then I had another six days by myself walking following the, the, the river Euphrates to the border.
- We were taking from the Euphrates that's got, you know, dead animals and humans in it and could be irradiated to from the war before.
Examples
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In this respect, the Euphrates and Tigris rivers were determined to be the backbone of water development.
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In the second section, I focus on the Jordan and Euphrates River basins.
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And then I had another six days by myself walking following the, the, the river Euphrates to the border.
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Just us and a Humvee up by the Euphrates River Valley.
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Therefore, when the Baath Party came to power in the early 1960s, Syria initiated the Euphrates Valley Project.
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Establishing a coordinated regional action in the Euphrates-Tigris basin still presents a great challenge.
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This is the second woe where four angels are released from their binds to the great river Euphrates.
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Before 1990, the Tigris and Euphrates brought 25,000 billion gallons of water through Iraq each year.
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Al-Nasiri refers to someone who hails from al-Nasiriyah, a town on the Euphrates in southern Iraq.
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The Euphrates flows through several significant cities in ancient Mesopotamia.
Synonyms
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A large river in southwest Asia that flows through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq into the Persian Gulf
Compounds
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A large river in southwest Asia that flows through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq into the Persian Gulf
Surface Forms
Etymology
Euphrates comes from a very old river name used in ancient Mesopotamia, originally Purattu, and it passed into Greek as Euphrátēs and then into Latin and English. That's why the same ancient name still names the great river that helped early civilizations live and grow.