This article provides a detailed list of the cities and towns along the Euphrates River in order of country. Other landmarks along the way are provided for context. The river is approximately 2,781 kilometers (1,730 miles) long, For more information, see Euphrates River The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define...

Cities in Turkey

Location of Elazığ Province

Location of Elazığ Province

The Euphrates is formed by the union of two branches, the Kara (the western Euphrates), which rises in the Armenian highlands of today's eastern Turkey north of Erzurum and the Murat (the eastern Euphrates). These rivers merge in the Elazığ Province of Turkey, where the river is dammed in several places such as the Keban Dam, the Karakaya Dam, Atatürk Dam, the Birecik Dam, and Karkamis Dam. Beneath the lakes of these dams are ancient towns like Samsat. Other towns like Elif, Hasanoğlu and Hisar in the Araban district of Gaziantep date back to Roman times. Halfeti, a district of Şanlıurfa, mentioned as “Halpa” in the Urartu inscriptions. [1] map of Turkey, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Anatolia Dardanelles Sea of Marmara Geography of Turkey Turkey Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... map of Turkey, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Anatolia Dardanelles Sea of Marmara Geography of Turkey Turkey Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... Image File history File links Elazig_Turkey_Provinces_locator. ... Image File history File links Elazig_Turkey_Provinces_locator. ... Karasu is a district of Sakarya Province of Turkey. ... Armenian Highland (Armenian Upland) is part of the Transcaucasian Highland and constitutes the continuation of the Caucasus mountains. ... Erzurum (Ô¿Õ¡Ö€Õ«Õ¶ (Karin) in Armenian) is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. ... The river Murat is also spelled Murad River, Turkish Murat Nehri. ... Location of Elazığ Province Elazığ Province is a province of Turkey with its seat in the city of Elazığ. This province is also the source of the Euphrates river. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Keban Dam The Keban Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey. ... Karakaya Dam Karakaya Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey. ... Atatürk Dam was built on Euphrates river and was completed in 1990. ... Birecik Dam Birecik Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey. ... Samsat can refer to: The village of Samsat, Turkey, location of the ancient city of Samosata The South African telecommunications company Sammeg Satellite (Pty) Ltd This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... ... Hisar, previously spelled as Hissar, is a city in the state of Haryana, in northwestern India, and it is also headquarters of Hisar district. ... Gaziantep (Kurdish: , informally, Antep) is the capital city of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. ... Halfeti is a district of Åžanlıurfa Province of Turkey. ... Shows the location of the province and city of Åžanlıurfa. ... Urartu at its greatest extent 743 BC Urartu (Biainili in Urartian) was an ancient kingdom in the mountainous plateau between Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus mountains, later known as the Armenian Highland, and it centered around Lake Van (present-day eastern Turkey). ...

The following is a partial list of other Turkish cities and towns that border the Euphrates.

• Rumkale (Hromgla)
• Arulis (Gümüşgün) was an important centre of the Kommagene kingdom
• Zeugma known as “Seleukeia Euphrates” in the Hellenistic period
• Birecik
• Arsameia

The Qalat ar-Run was a powerful fortress on the river Euphrates, 50 km northeast of Gaziantep, Turkey. ... The Qalat ar-Run was a powerful fortress on the river Euphrates, 50 km northeast of Gaziantep, Turkey. ... Zeugma (from the Greek word ζεύγμα, meaning yoke) is a figure of speech in which one word applies to two others in different senses of that word, and in some cases only logically applies to one of the other two words. ... Birecik, a town of North-West Mesopotamia, in the Aleppo valley, altitude 1170 ft. ...

Cities in Syria

Map of Syria

The upper reaches of the Euphrates flow through steep canyons and gorges, southeast across Syria, and through Iraq. The Khabur and the Balikh River join the Euphrates in eastern Syria. Buhayrat al Asad is a large lake in Syria on the Euphrates River formed by the construction of the Tabaqah Dam in 1973. The sites of Tell Abu Hureyra and Mureybet ancient Mesoptamian cities of the Euphrates, are underneath this lake. map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... map of Syria, converted directly from CIA World Factbook GIF File links The following pages link to this file: Syria Geography of Syria Categories: CIA World Factbook images ... The Khabur river (also Habor, Habur) is 200 miles (320 km) long, beginning in southeastern Turkey, and flowing generally south to Syria where it is joined by the Jaghjagh River and eventually empties into Euphrates River. ... The Balikh River has its origins in Turkey, and ends up in Syria, on the very western part of Euphrates. ... Tabaqah Dam and Lake Assad from space, June 1996 The Tabaqah Dam (sometimes called the Euphrates Dam) is an earth filled dam nearly 197 feet (60 meters) high and 3 miles (5 km) long (located at 36°0′N 38°35′E) in Syria. ... Tell Abu Hureyra (tell is arabic for mount) was a site of an ancient settlement in the northern Levant or western Mesopotamia. ... Along the middle Euphrates in Syria, the site of Mureybet was occupied from the 12th to the 8th millennium BCE. It is one of the earliest known agriculture-based settlements, the domestication of plants, one of the forces that brought about the Neolithic Revolution, was traced in successive strata, making...

• Abu Kamal
• Ar Raqqah
• Deir ez-Zor
• Mayadin

Abu Kamal (Arabic: أبو كمال) is a town in eastern Syria, near the border with Iraq. ... Ar Raqqah (ﺍﻟﺮﻗﺔ; also spelled Rakka), city in north central Syria, capital of the Raqqah province, located on the north bank of the Euphrates River, about 160 km east of Aleppo. ... Dayr az Zawr, or Deir ez Zor, town (1994 est. ... Mayadin is a town in eastern Syria. ...

Cities in Iraq

Map of Iraq

In Iraq, the Euphrates is known as Nahr al Furat and is only navigable by very shallow-draft boats, which can reach as far as the Iraqi city of Hit, located 1,930 kilometers (1,200 miles) upstream and which is only 53 meters (58 yards) above sea level. Above Hit, however, shoals and rapids make the river commercially unnavigable. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... , For other uses, see Nineveh (disambiguation). ... Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. ... Assur (Assyrian: ܐܫܘܪ) also spelled Ashur, from Assyrian AÅ¡Å¡ur, was the capital of ancient Assyria. ... Location of Kirkuk in Iraqi map Kirkuk (also spelled Karkuk or Kerkuk; Arabic: كركوك, KirkÅ«k; Kurdish: كركوك ; Syriac: ܐܪܦܗܐ, Arrapha; Persian: کرکوک; Turkish: Kerkük) is a city in northern Iraq and capital of Tamim governorate. ... Nuzi was an ancient city southwest of Kirkuk in modern Iraq, located near the Tigris river. ... Intendant Ebih-Il, found in the temple of Ishtar at Mari, Archaic Dynasties (ca. ... Looking north along the Tigris towards Saddams Presidential palace in April 2003 Tikrit (تكريت, TikrÄ«t also transliterated as Takrit or Tekrit) is a town in Iraq, located 140 km northwest of Baghdad on the Tigris river (at 34. ... Map showing Samarra near Baghdad Sāmarrā (سامراء) is a town in Iraq ( ). It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad Din Governorate, 125 km north of Baghdad and, in 2002, had an estimated population of 201,700. ... Saddam Mosque Ramadi (Arabic: ‎ ; BGN: Ar RamādÄ«) is a city in central Iraq, about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad. ... Baghdad (Arabic ) is the capital of Iraq and of Baghdad Governorate. ... Fallujah skyline Fallujah (Arabic: ‎; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ... Shrine of Karbala Karbala (Arabic: ‎; BGN: Karbalā’; also spelled Kerbala, Kerbela, Karbila) is a city in Iraq, located about 100 km southwest of Baghdad at 32. ... Sippara (Zimbir in Sumerian, Sippar in Assyro-Babylonian) was an ancient Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates, north of Babylon. ... Babylon was an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq), the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, about 50 miles (80 km) south of Baghdad. ... KÅ«t (كوت; also known as Kut-Al-Imara and Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad, at 32. ... Kish [kish] (Tall al-Uhaymir) was an ancient city of Sumer, now in central Iraq. ... The city of Nippur [nipoor] (Sumerian Nibru, Akkadian Nibbur) was one of the most ancient of all the Babylonian cities of which we have any knowledge, the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god, Enlil, ruler of the cosmos subject to An alone. ... An International Securities Identifying Number (ISIN) uniquely identifies a security. ... Amarah (sometimes written al-Amarah), is a city in southeastern Iraq, located next to the Tigris River waterway south of Baghdad, at 32°10N 46°03E. Predominately Shiite, it had a population of about 340,000 as of 2002. ... Najaf (Arabic: ‎; BGN: An Najaf) is a city in Iraq about 160 km south of Baghdad. ... Uruk (Sumerian Unug, Biblical Erech, Greek Orchoë and Arabic وركاء Warka), was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates, on the line of the ancient Nil canal, in a region of marshes, about 140 miles (230 km) SSE from Baghdad. ... Larsa (the Biblical Ellasar, Genesis 14:1), was an important city of ancient Babylonia, the site of the worship of the sun-god, Shamash, represented by the ancient ruin mound of Senkereh (Senkera). ... NāşirÄ«yah (also transliterated as Nassiriya or Nasiriya; in Arabic الناصرية, al-Nasiriyah or an-Nasiriyah) is a city in Iraq. ... For other uses, see UR. Ur seen across the Royal tombs, with the Great Ziggurat in the background, January 17, 2004 Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia, located near the mouth (at the time) of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers on the Persian Gulf and close to Eridu. ... Eridu (or Eridug) was an ancient city seven miles southwest of Ur . ... Lagash or Sirpurla was one of the oldest cities of Sumer and later Babylonia. ... Umma was an ancient city in Sumer. ... Location of Basra Basra (Arabic: ‎; BGN: Al BaÅŸrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of 2,600,000 (2003). ... Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa. ... The Euphrates (the traditional Greek name for the river, which is in Old Persian Ufrat, Aramaic Prâth/Frot, in Arabic Al-Furat الفرات, in Turkish Fırat and in ancient Assyrian language Pu-rat-tu) is the westernmost of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia (Bethnahrin in Aramaic), the...

A 350 mile (565-km) canal links the Euphrates to the Tigris from Al-Yusufiyyah, 25 miles (40 km) south of Baghdad, to Al-Basrah. Location of Basra Basra (also known as Başrah or Basara; historically sometimes called Busra, Busrah, and early on Bassorah; Arabic: البصرة, Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of about 1,377,000 in 2003. ...

North of Basra, in southern Iraq, the river merges with the Tigris to form the Arvand/Shatt al-Arab, this in turn empties into the Persian Gulf. The river used to divide into many channels at Basra, forming an extensive marshland, but the marshes were largely drained by the Saddam Hussein government in the 1990s as a means of driving out the rebellious Marsh Arabs. Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the drainage policy has been reversed, but it remains to be seen whether the marshes will recover. Location of Basra Basra (Arabic: ‎; BGN: Al BaÅŸrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of 2,600,000 (2003). ... The Tigris River (Arabic: دجلة Dijla, Hebrew: חדקל ḥiddeqel, Kurdish: Dîjle, Pahlavi: Tigr, Old Persian: Tigrā-, Syriac: ܕܩܠܬ Deqlath, Turkish: Dicle, Akkadian: Idiqlat) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq (the name Mesopotamia... The Shatt al-Arab (Arabic: شط العرب) or Arvand (called اروندرود: arvandrūd in Persian), also called the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, is a river in Southwest Asia of some 200 km in length, formed by the... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: [1]; April 28, 1937[2] – December 30, 2006[3]), was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979, until April 9, 2003. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... The Marsh Arabs are the inhabitants of the lowlands of southern Iraq, the former Mesopotamia, whose families have lived in the area for thousands of years. ... Combatants Coalition Forces: United States United Kingdom South Korea Australia Poland Romania others. ...

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• Al Hillah
• Al Kifl
• Al-Hanaya
• Anah

D Al Hillah (Arabic: الحلة) is a city in central Iraq on the river Euphrates, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, with an estimated population of 364,700 in 1998. ... Al-Hanaya is a town in Iraq, on the Euphrates River. ... This article is about the town of Anah. ...

• Al Diwaniyah

F Al Diwaniyah (sometimes called Ad Diwaniyah) is the capital city of Iraqs Al Qadisyah province. ...

• Fallujah

H Fallujah skyline Fallujah (Arabic: ‎; sometimes transliterated as Falluja or Fallouja) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, located roughly 69 km (43 miles) west of Baghdad on the Euphrates. ...

• Haditha
• Haqlaniyah
• Hīt, Iraq

I Haditha, Iraq Haditha (حديثة) is a city in the Iraqi province of Al Anbar, about 240 km northwest of Baghdad. ... Hīt or Heet (Arabic: ‎) is a city in al-Anbar province, Iraq. ...

• Iskandariya

K Iskandariya (إسكندرية, also given as Iskandariyah, Iskanderiyah, Iskanderiya, Iskanderiyeh or Sikandariyeh) is an ancient town in central Iraq, one of a number of towns in the Near East named after Alexander the Great (Iskander in Arabic). ...

• Khan al Baghdadi
• Kufa

M Kufa (الكوفة al-Kufa in Arabic) is a city in Iraq, about 170 km south of Baghdad, and 10 km northeast of Najaf. ...

• Musayyib

N Musayyib (Arabic: ‎) is a city in the Babil Governorate, Iraq. ...

• Nasiriyah

Q Nāşirīyah (also transliterated as Nassiriya or Nasiriya; in Arabic الناصرية, al-Nasiriyah or an-Nasiriyah) is a city in Iraq. ...

• Al-Qa'im (town)

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• Ramadi
• Rawah

S Saddam Mosque Ramadi (Arabic: ‎ ; BGN: Ar Ramādī) is a city in central Iraq, about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad. ...

• Saddat al Hindiyah
• Samawah