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Khosr River

a Pleiades place resource

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tags: ANE

The Khosr River was a tributary of the Tigris River that ran directly through the center of the Assyrian city Nineveh. The Neo-Assyrian king Sennacherib reinforced its banks with large stone blocks to prevent it from flooding or damaging the citadel wall.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975989

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.3586329, 43.1592036

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM representative point for Alkhosr (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Husur (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Khosr River (English, modern)
- نهر الخوص (Nahr al-Khosr: Arabic, modern)

Khosr River makes connections with:

Khosr River intersects Badnigalbilukurašušu (720 BC - 540 BC)
Khosr River intersects Badnigerimhuluha (720 BC - 540 BC)
Khosr River intersects Nineveh/Ninos (3000 BC - Present)
Khosr River intersects Royal Road of Nineveh (720 BC - 540 BC)

Khosr River receives connections from:

Step Gate of the Gardens located near Khosr River (720 BC - 540 BC)

Place type:
river, drainage

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jamie Novotny, 'Khosr River: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975989> [accessed: 19 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975989 |title=Places: 897975989 (Khosr River) |author=Novotny, J. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 7:33 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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