What is "tigris"

Usage examples of "tigris".

Mongols began to pour in from the east, sacking Samarkand and overrunning most of the expanse of the old Parthia before a Moslem army of Seljuks, Swarizmi, Kurds, Ortuquids, Zangids, Abbasids, and Azerbaijans met them on the banks of the Tigris and were soundly trounced.

First reports were magnificent: Babylon conquered, the Tigris crossed, Ctesiphon fallen.

Euphrates and Tigris go down into the Red Sea while the Geon runs through Egypt.

The rocks should have been over­run and the captives hooked up into the slave coffle and on the trail for the markets at Baghdad on the banks of the Tigris over an hour ago.

The five provinces beyond the Tigris, which had been ceded by the grandfather of Sapor, were restored to the Persian monarchy.

As he had minutely studied the operations of Trajan in the same country, he soon recollected that his warlike predecessor had dug a new and navigable canal, which, leaving Coche on the right hand, conveyed the waters of the Nahar- Malcha into the river Tigris, at some distance above the cities.

GAP impounded the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates, and created new farmland equal to the total cultivable area of the Netherlands.

A favorite ambassador, who had astonished the Abbassides themselves by his pride and liberality, presented on his return the model of a palace, which the caliph of Bagdad had recently constructed on the banks of the Tigris.

Instead of confining his servile march to the banks of the Euphrates and Tigris, he resolved to imitate the adventurous spirit of Alexander, and boldly to advance into the inland provinces, till he forced his rival to contend with him, perhaps in the plains of Arbela, for the empire of Asia.

At your ancient Greek city of Seleucia, in fact, just across the Tigris.

Hypercom messages from Terran space freighters to Terran trade offices on alien worlds-inquiries and messages for relay between solar freighters underway-all these had been inconspicuously in progress for 3 days and whoever was listening in from the 'other' side saw in the last transmission of the freighter Eugenio, which stated that the Tigris would arrive on 18 June 2042, only a typical commercial message.

The first of these armies, as soon as it had entered the marshy plains of Babylon, towards the artificial conflux of the Euphrates and the Tigris, ^51 was encompassed by the superior numbers, and destroyed by the arrows of the enemy.

All the time that I had followed them I had kept both eyes and ears alert for sign or sound that would indicate the presence of Felis tigris.

In one of the fiercest of these repeated assaults, Amida was betrayed by the treachery of a deserter, who indicated to the Barbarians a secret and neglected staircase, scooped out of the rock that hangs over the stream of the Tigris.

The Egyptian pharaohs had sent the Hurrian ambassador back to his master, King Sargon of Babylon, that mighty kingdom between the Tigris and Euphrates, demanding that Sargon's annual tribute be increased to twenty lakhs of gold.