The battle of the river Tigris was an engagement between the Diadochi Seleucus and the Antigonid general Nicanor, on the southern bank of the river Tigris...
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The Tigris (/ˈtaɪɡrɪs/ TY-griss; see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows...
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Tiger (redirect from Panthera tigris tigris)
worldwide. The Old English tigras derives from Old French tigre, from Latin tigris, which was a borrowing from Classical Greek τίγρις 'tigris'. Since ancient...
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Seleucia (redirect from Seleucia on the Tigris)
Seleucia-on-Tigris or Seleucia on the Tigris or Seleucia ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city, located on the west bank of the Tigris River within the present-day...
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Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914–1921. Faber and Faber. Wilcox, Ron (2006). Battles on the Tigris. Barnsley:...
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Siberian tiger (redirect from Panthera tigris altaica)
The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly...
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Wilcox, R. (2006). Battles on the Tigris. Pen & Sword. pp214 Edward J. Erickson, Ordered to Die: A history of the Ottoman Army in the First World War (Greenwood...
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Shapur II to the walls of Ctesiphon on May 29. Outside the walls a Persian army under Merena was formed up for battle across the Tigris. According to...
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Ottoman Sixth Army. After the Battle of Es Sinn, the Anglo-Indian force controlled the Tigris and Euphrates rivers through much of what is now southern Iraq...
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another battle with Alexander. In the late spring or early summer of 331 BC, Alexander headed from Egypt, northeast through Syria, toward the Tigris river...
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