Khosr River
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 08, 2018 06:02 AM
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History
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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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975989
36.3586329, 43.1592036
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM representative point for Alkhosr (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Husur (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Khosr River (English, modern)
- نهر الخوص (Nahr al-Khosr: Arabic, modern)
- 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)
- Step Gate of the Gardens located near Khosr River (720 BC - 540 BC)
river, drainage
Pleiades
Jamie Novotny, 'Khosr River: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897975989> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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