NOUN
- a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia
How To Use Euphrates River In A Sentence
- A people known as the Hyksos later seized control of the northern Nile valley, but the New Kingdom arose in the middle of the second millennium B.C. and extended its power all the way to the Euphrates River. Alexander the Great
- Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there.
- In 2007, Israeli jets bombed a Syrian industrial facility on the Euphrates River that U.S. intelligence officials subsequently described as a nascent nuclear reactor being built by North Koreans. Tests Point to Spread of Weapons Trade
- Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
- Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
- Turkey plans to harness the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers for big hydro-electric power projects.
- The Euphrates River originates, like the Tigris, in the mountains of eastern Turkey; it then flows southward through Syria and Iraq before emptying into the Persian Gulf.
- The surrounding countryside is flat and almost treeless, but there is some greenery thanks to the complex of irrigation canals that feed water from the Euphrates River and other waterways.
- At the bottom end of Mesopotamia, the cradle of Western civilization, the Shatt takes in the water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flows southward from Basra to the Persian Gulf.
- Iraqi forces ambushed marines when they crossed the Euphrates river near Nassiriya.
