Everything about The Khabur River totally explained
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. The
river, with its several branches, such as the Aweidj, Dara, Djirdjib, Jaghjagh, Radd and Zergan Rivers, isn't a major water course, and during most of the year is represented by
wadis (dry riverbeds).
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.
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. 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 region of the Khabur River is also associated with the rise of the kingdom of the
Mitanni that flourished c.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. 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...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).
Modern Khabur River Valley
The Khabur River project, begun in the 1960s, involved the construction of a series of
dams and
canals. The Khabur Valley, which now has about four million acres (16,000 km²) of farmland, is Syria's main
wheat-cultivation area. The northeastern part is also the center for Syria's oil production.
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