Khabur
The Khabur River is the largest perennial tributary to the Euphrates in Syria. Although the Khabur originates in Turkey, the karstic springs around Ras al-Ayn are the river's main source of water.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Syria and Turkey
- Also known as: “Chebar”, “Khabur River”, “Nahr al Khabur”, and “Nahr Khabour”
- Historically known as: “Aebura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Circesium.
Circesium
Archaeological site
Circesium, known in Arabic as al-Qarqisiya, was a Roman fortress city near the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur rivers, located at the empire's eastern frontier with the Sasanian Empire. Circesium is situated 3½ km north of Khabur.
Khabur
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Armenian—“Khabur” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሐቡር ወንዝ”
- Arabic: “خابور”
- Arabic: “نهر الخابور”
- Armenian: “Խաբուր”
- Asturian: “Ríu Khabur”
- Azerbaijani: “Xabur çayı”
- Basque: “Khabur”
- Belarusian: “Хабур”
- Bulgarian: “Хабур”
- Catalan: “Gran Khabur”
- Catalan: “Habor”
- Catalan: “Habur”
- Catalan: “Khabur”
- Cebuano: “Nahr al Khābūr”
- Central Kurdish: “خابوور”
- Chinese: “哈布爾河”
- Croatian: “Habura (Eufrat)”
- Croatian: “Habura”
- Czech: “Chabur”
- Czech: “Chábur”
- Czech: “Chábúr”
- Dutch: “Khabur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “خابور”
- Esperanto: “Ĥabur”
- Finnish: “Habur-joki”
- Finnish: “Habur”
- Finnish: “Khabur-joki”
- Finnish: “Khabur”
- French: “Habor”
- French: “Khabour”
- French: “Khabur”
- Galician: “Khabur”
- Galician: “Río Khabur”
- German: “Chaboras”
- German: “Chabur”
- German: “Habur”
- German: “Ḫabur”
- German: “Khabur”
- Greek: “Αβώρ”
- Hebrew: “חבור”
- Hungarian: “Hábúr”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kebar”
- Irish: “Abhainn Khabur”
- Italian: “Grande Khabur”
- Italian: “Habur”
- Italian: “Khabur”
- Japanese: “ハブール川”
- Korean: “카부르 강”
- Korean: “하부르강”
- Kurdish: “Xabûr”
- Kurdish: “خابوور”
- Latin: “Abora” (historical)
- Lithuanian: “Chaburas”
- Lithuanian: “Chabūras”
- Lithuanian: “Haburas”
- Macedonian: “Хабур”
- Mingrelian: “ხაბური”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Khabur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Çemê Xabûr”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Habur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kebar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Khabur”
- Norwegian: “Khabur”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܐܒܘܪܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܒܘܪ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܒܘܪܐ”
- Persian: “خابور”
- Polish: “Chabur”
- Polish: “Nahr al-Chabur”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cabur”
- Portuguese: “Rio Khabur”
- Romanian: “Khabur”
- Romanian: “Râul Khabur”
- Russian: “Абора”
- Russian: “Хабур”
- Slovenian: “Habur”
- South Azerbaijani: “خابور چایی”
- Spanish: “Habor”
- Spanish: “Habur”
- Spanish: “Jabur”
- Spanish: “Khabur”
- Spanish: “Rio Jabur”
- Spanish: “Río Jabur”
- Spanish: “Rio Khabur”
- Spanish: “Río Khabur”
- Swedish: “Habur”
- Swedish: “Haburfloden”
- Swedish: “Khabur”
- Swedish: “Khaburs”
- Syriac: “ḥābur”
- Syriac: “khābur”
- Tajik: “Darjoi Xobur”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Хобур”
- Tajik: “Хобур”
- Tamil: “காபூர் ஆறு (புறாத்து ஆறு)”
- Tamil: “காபூர் ஆறு”
- Turkish: “Habur Çayı”
- Turkish: “Habur”
- Turkish: “Khabir”
- Ukrainian: “Хабур”
- Urdu: “خابور (فرات)”
- Urdu: “خابور”
- Uzbek: “Xobur daryosi”
- Venetian: “Fiume Jabur”
- Welsh: “Afon Khabur”
- Western Armenian: “Խապուր”
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