The Khabur River (Aramaic:ܚܒܘܪ, Kurdish: Çemê Xabûr, Turkish: Habur Nehri, Arabic: نهر الخابور; also transliterated as Habor River or Habur River) is a river that begins in southeastern Turkey and flows south to Syria, where it eventually empties into the Euphrates River. See Syriac (disambiguation for other uses Syriac (syr ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ leššānā Suryāyā) is an Eastern Aramaic language The Kurdish language (Kurdish Kurdî or کوردی is a term used for the language spoken by Kurds. Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Arabic (ar الْعَرَبيّة (informally ar عَرَبيْ) in terms of the number of speakers is the largest living member of the Semitic language Different approaches and methods for the Romanization of Arabic exist Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية The Euphrates ( ( Arabic: ar نهر الفرات; Turkish: tr Fırat Syriac: syr ܦܪܬ; Hebrew: he פרת The river, with its several branches, such as the Aweidj, Dara, Djirdjib, Jaghjagh, Radd and Zergan Rivers, is not a major water course, and during most of the year is represented by wadis (dry riverbeds). "Riverine" redirects here For the use of that term in Maritime geography, see there Wadi (وادي) (also Vadi) is traditionally a valley In some cases it can refer to a dry riverbed that contains water only during times of heavy rain
Another river also named Khabur begins in Şırnak (Turkey), flows through Zakho (Iraq) and empties into the River Tigris at the tripoint between Turkey, Iraq and Syria. For other meanings see Tripoint (disambiguation. Tripoint (also known as tri-border area) is a geographical point at
History
In Sumerian Mythology, the Habur is equivalent to the River Styx in Greek myth. Important ancient sites such as Tell Halaf, Tell Brak, Tell Leilan and Urkesh, have been excavated in the Khabur river basin. Tell Halaf ( Akkadian: Guzana; تل حلف, Syria) Nagar (modern Tell Brak, Syria) was an ancient Late Neolithic, Sumerian and Akkadian city on the Khabur River. Tell Leilan, Syria is the site of a city known as Shekhna in ancient times Urkesh (or Urkish, modern Tell Mozan, Syria) was a city situated at the base of the Taurus Mountains in what is now northern Syria A drainage basin is an extent of Land where Water from Rain or Snow melt drains downhill into a body of water such as a River, It has given its name to a distinctive painted ware found in northern Mesopotamia and Syria in the early 2nd millennium BCE, called Khabur ware. The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age. The region of the Khabur River is also associated with the rise of the kingdom of the Mitanni that flourished c. Mitanni ( Hittite cuneiform, also Mittani) or Hanigalbat ( Assyrian Hanigalbat Khanigalbat cuneiform) 1500-1300 BC. In classical times the river was known as Chaboras.
The Books of Kings and The First Book of Chronicles in the Old Testament recount that Tiglath-Pileser III, the King of Assyria, captured Israelites from east of the Jordan. The Books of Kings ( Sefer Melachim, ספר מלכים are a part of Judaism 's Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. The Books of Chronicles ( Hebrew Divrei Hayyamim, דברי הימים Greek Paraleipomêna) are part of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christian Biblical canon. Tiglath-Pileser III (from the Hebraic form of Akkadian: Tukultī-apil-Ešarra, "my trust is in the son of Esharra" was a prominent king A portion of the captives were deported to the banks of the river. The priest and prophet Ezekiel "was by the river Chebar among the exiles. According to religious texts Ezekiel ((יְחֶזְקֵאל Yehezkel, jəx . . in the land of the Chaldeans" when "the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God" (Ezek. 1:1,3). The Book of Kings also describes Israelite captives from Samaria who settled near Guzana (Gozan) on the river's banks during the reign of Shalmaneser V (son and successor of Tiglath-Pileser), (17:6, 18:11). See also History of ancient Israel and Judah According to the Bible, the Israelites were the dominant group living in the Land of Israel. Samaria, or the Shomron ( שֹׁמְרוֹן, Standard Šoməron Tiberian Šōmərôn Tell Halaf ( Akkadian: Guzana; تل حلف, Syria) Shalmaneser V ( Akkadian: akk Šulmanu-ašarid) was King of Assyria from 727 to 722 BC
Modern Khabur River Valley
The Khabur River project, begun in the 1960s, involved the construction of a series of dams and canals. A dam is a barrier that divides waters. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water while other structures such as Floodgates, Levees Canals are artificial channels for water There are two types of canals water conveyance canals which are used for the conveyance and delivery of water and Waterways The Khabur Valley, which now has about four million acres (16,000 km²) of farmland, is Syria's main wheat-cultivation area. Wheat ( Triticum spp is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant area of the Middle East. The northeastern part is also the center for Syria's oil production.
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