Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
- ISBN-10
- 0791082466
- ISBN-13
- 9780791082461
- Category
- Euphrates River
- Pages
- 116
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Infobase Publishing
- Author
- Shane Mountjoy
Description
Some of the great cities of Mesopotamia, such as Nineveh, Ctesiphon, and Seleucia stood on the banks of these rivers.
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