Tigris/Diglitus (river)
natural · 6200 BC – 2100 AD
The Tigris river, one of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, flows 1,850 km from the Taurus Mountains to the Persian Gulf.
- Coordinates
- 34.92380, 43.71230
- Also known as
- Dicle (tr), Diglitus, Diǧla, Dijla, Dijlah, Diǧlah, el-Diǧle, el-Diǧleh, el-Dijle, el-Dijleh, al-Diǧla, al-Diǧlah, al-Dijla, al-Dijlah, ed-Diǧle, ed-Diǧleh, ed-Dijle, ed-Dijleh, ad-Diǧla, ad-Diǧlah, ad-Dijla, ad-Dijlah, Dıʾǧla, Dijle, Dijleh, Diǧle, Diǧleh (arb), Diǧle Nehri (ota), Dklaṭ, Dklat (hy), Dıʾǧla, Idigina (akk), Idiglat, Idiqlat (akk), Nehr-i Dicle (ota), Tigris (la), Tigrā, Tigra (peo), Tigrēs, Tigres (grc), ad-Diǧla, Šaṭṭ, Shatt (arb), Τίγρις (grc)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)