English example sentences with "Tigris"

History books write that after the Mongol invasion of Baghdad, many books were thrown into the Tigris River and therefore the colour of the river turned blue with the ink of books.

Two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, run through Iraq.

The Tigris and Euphrates start in Turkey and flow through or by Syria and Iraq.

And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.