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Seleucia ( / sɪˈljuːʃə /; Greek: Σελεύκεια ), also known as 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 Baghdad Governorate in Iraq. It was founded around 305 BC by Seleucus I Nicator as the first capital of ...
Halfeti, a district of Şanlıurfa, mentioned as “ Halpa ” in the Urartu inscriptions. [1] The following is a partial list of other cities and towns in Turkey that border the Euphrates. Rumkale ( Hromgla) Arulis ( Gümüşgün) was an important centre of the Kommagene kingdom. Zeugma known as “ Seleukeia Euphrates ” in the Hellenistic ...
Samarra ( Arabic: سَامَرَّاء, Sāmarrāʾ) is a city in Iraq. It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Saladin Governorate, 125 kilometers (78 mi) north of Baghdad. The modern city of Samarra was founded in 836 by the Abbasid caliph al-Mu'tasim as a new administrative capital and military base. [1]
Tikrit. / 34.61000°N 43.68000°E / 34.61000; 43.68000. Tikrit ( Arabic: تِكْرِيت Tikrīt [ˈtɪkriːt]) is a city in Iraq, located 140 kilometers (87 mi) northwest of Baghdad and 220 kilometers (140 mi) southeast of Mosul on the Tigris River. It is the administrative center of the Saladin Governorate.
Amarah ( Arabic: ٱلْعَمَارَة, romanized : al-ʿAmārah ), also spelled Amara, is a city in south-eastern Iraq, located on a low ridge next to the Tigris River waterway south of Baghdad about 50 km (31 mi) from the border with Iran. It lies at the northern tip of the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates. [1]
The city is located in a strategic position 10 kilometres (6 mi) north of the point that the river Tigris meets its tributary the Great Zab. The city covered an area of 360 hectares (890 acres). The ruins of the city were found within one kilometre (1,100 yd) of the modern-day Assyrian village of Noomanea in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq.
Kūt ( Arabic: ٱلْكُوت, romanized : al-Kūt ), officially Al-Kut, also spelled Kutulamare or Kut al-Imara, is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 160 kilometres (99 miles) south east of Baghdad. As of 2018 the estimated population is about 389,400 people. It is the capital of the province long known as Al ...
An-Nu'mānīyah ( Arabic: النعمانية, romanized : an-Nuʿmānīyah) is a city on the Tigris river in Iraq, located roughly 140 kilometres (87 mi) southeast of Baghdad in the Wasit Province. It is the site of one of four national training centers for the Iraqi Army . It is also the site of a base that was built by the Hussein regime and ...