Tigris
The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of the Armenian Highlands through the Syrian and Arabian Deserts, before merging with the Euphrates and reaching to the Persian Gulf.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river flowing from Turkey through Iraq and Syria
- Also known as: “Ava Mezin”, “Çemê Dîcle”, “Çemê Dîcleyê”, “Chidekel”, “Deqlath”, “Dicle Irmağı”, “Didjla”, “Didschla”, “Didžla”, “Didžle”, “Dīdžle”, “Dijla”, “Dîjle”, “Fiume Tigri”, “Hiddecel”, “Hiddekel”, “Hiddékel”, “Hiddekl”, “Hidekel”, “Hidequel”, “Hidesel”, “Idigina”, “Idiglat”, “Ilog na Tigris”, “Ilog ng Tigris”, “Ilog Tigris”, “Nahr Didżla”, “Nahr Dijlah”, “Râul Tigru”, “Rijeka Tigar”, “Rio Tígris”, “Riu Tigris”, “Robarê Dîcleyê”, “Roê Dicley”, “Sông Tigris”, “Tigar”, “Tigr”, “Tigris folyó”, “Tigris ibaia”, “Tigro”, “Τίγρης”, “Река Тигар”, “Река Тигър”, “החידקל”, “טיגריס טייך”, “נהר חידקל”, “دجلہ”, “دیا باکر”, “رود دجله”, “رودخانه دجله”, “رودخانهٔ دجله”, “سن الصخر”, “طول نهر دجلة”, “نهر الدجلة”, “نهر دجلة”, “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܕܩܠܬ”, “ܢܗܪܐ ܕܫܠܡܐ”, “ࡃࡉࡂࡋࡀࡕ”, “ጤግሮስ ወንዝ”, “टाइग्रिस”, “तिग्रीस नदी”, “তাইগ্রিস”, “டைகிரிசு”, “டைகிரிஸ்”, “டைகிரிஸ் ஆறு”, “ടൈഗ്രിസ് നദി”, “ไทกริส”, “ไทกรีส”, “แม่น้ำไทกรีส”, “디쥘라 강”, “디쥘라강”, “티그리스”, “히데켈”, “チグリス”, “ティグリス”, “希底結河”, and “希底结河”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Çanakça and Kayranlı.
Kayranlı
Village
Kayranlı is a village in the Alacakaya District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Kayranlı is situated 3 km northeast of Tigris.
Bakladamlar
Village
Bakladamlar is a village in the Alacakaya District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Bakladamlar is situated 5 km northeast of Tigris.
Tigris
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Elazığ, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.43333° or 38° 26′ north
Longitude
39.77278° or 39° 46′ 22″ east
Elevation
1,095 metres (3,593 feet)
Open location code
8GCXCQMF+84
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Tigris” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tigris”
- Afrikaans: “Tigrisrivier”
- Amharic: “ጤግሮስ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τίγρις”
- Arabic: “دجلة”
- Armenian: “Տիգրիս”
- Asturian: “Tigris”
- Azerbaijani: “Dəclə”
- Bashkir: “Тигр”
- Basque: “Tigris”
- Belarusian: “Тыгр”
- Bengali: “দজলা”
- Bhojpuri: “दज़ला नदी”
- Bosnian: “Tigris”
- Breton: “Tigris”
- Bulgarian: “Тигър”
- Burmese: “တိုင်းဂရစ်မြစ်”
- Catalan: “Tigris”
- Cebuano: “Tigris River”
- Central Bikol: “Tigris”
- Central Kurdish: “دیجلە”
- Chinese: “底格里斯河”
- Chuvash: “Тигр”
- Croatian: “Tigris”
- Czech: “Tigris”
- Danish: “Tigris”
- Dimli (individual language): “Royê Dicley”
- Dutch: “Tigris”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دجله”
- Esperanto: “Tigriso”
- Estonian: “Tigris”
- Extremaduran: “Tigris”
- Fiji Hindi: “Tigris”
- Finnish: “Tigris”
- French: “Tigre”
- Galician: “Río Tigris”
- Georgian: “ტიგრი”
- Georgian: “ტიგროსი”
- German: “Tigris”
- Greek: “Τίγρης ποταμός”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tí-kiet-lî-sṳ̂-hò”
- Hausa: “Kogin Tigris”
- Hebrew: “חידקל”
- Hindi: “दजला नदी”
- Hungarian: “Tigris”
- Iban: “Tigris”
- Icelandic: “Tígris”
- Ido: “Tigris”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Tigris”
- Interlingue: “Tigris”
- Irish: “An Tígris”
- Italian: “Tigri”
- Japanese: “チグリス川”
- Japanese: “ティグリス川”
- Javanese: “Kali Tigris”
- Kannada: “ಟೈಗ್ರಿಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Тигр”
- Kirghiz: “Тигр”
- Korean: “티그리스강”
- Kurdish: “Dîcle”
- Latin: “Tigris”
- Latvian: “Tigra”
- Limburgan: “Tigris”
- Lingala: “Tigre”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Tigris”
- Literary Chinese: “底格里斯河”
- Lithuanian: “Tigras”
- Lombard: “Tigri”
- Luxembourgish: “Tigris”
- Macedonian: “Тигар”
- Maithili: “दजला नदी”
- Malagasy: “Tigrisy”
- Malay: “Sungai Dajlah”
- Malay: “Tigris”
- Malayalam: “ടൈഗ്രിസ്”
- Marathi: “तैग्रिस नदी”
- Mazanderani: “دجله”
- Mesopotamian Arabic: “دجلة”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Hĭ-dī-giék Ò̤”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Tigris Ò̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tigris Hô”
- Mingrelian: “ტიგრი”
- Mingrelian: “ტიგროსი”
- Mongolian: “Тигр мөрөн”
- Nepali: “टाइग्रिस नदी”
- Nepali: “टिग्रिस नदी”
- Newari: “तिग्रिस खुसि”
- Northern Frisian: “Tiigris”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tigris”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tigris”
- Norwegian: “Tigris”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tigre (riu)”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tigre”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܩܠܬ”
- Ossetian: “Тигр”
- Panjabi: “ਦਜਲਾ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Panjabi: “ਦਜਲਾ”
- Persian: “دجله”
- Polish: “Tygrys”
- Portuguese: “Rio Tigre”
- Portuguese: “Tigre”
- Romanian: “Tigru”
- Russian: “Тигр”
- Rusyn: “Тигрис”
- Rusyn: “Тіґріс”
- Scots: “Tigris”
- Serbian: “Тигар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tigris”
- Sicilian: “Tigri”
- Sindhi: “دجله ندي”
- Sinhala: “tigiris”
- Sinhala: “ටයිග්රීස්”
- Slovak: “Tigris”
- Slovenian: “Tigris”
- Somali: “Tigris”
- South Azerbaijani: “دجله چایی”
- South Azerbaijani: “دجله”
- Spanish: “Tigris”
- Swahili: “Hidekeli”
- Swedish: “Tigris”
- Swiss German: “Tigris”
- Tagalog: “Tigris”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Тигрис”
- Tajik: “Даҷла”
- Tamil: “டைகிரிசு ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Tigr yılğası”
- Tatar: “Тигр”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำไทกริส”
- Turkish: “Dicle Nehri”
- Turkish: “Dicle”
- Ukrainian: “Тигр”
- Urdu: “دریائے دجلہ”
- Uzbek: “Dajla”
- Venetian: “Fiume Tigris”
- Vietnamese: “Tigris”
- Vlaams: “Tigris”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tigris”
- Welsh: “Afon Tigris”
- Western Armenian: “Տիգրիս”
- Western Frisian: “Tigris”
- Western Panjabi: “دریاۓ دجلہ”
- Wu Chinese: “底格里斯河”
- Yakut: “Тигрис”
- Yiddish: “חידקל”
- Yue Chinese: “底格里斯河”
- “telo linja Sikisu”
- “दज़ला नदी”
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