euphrates

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  1. an Asia river flowing into the Persian Gulf.

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  1. a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia

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  • It is difficult to understand how so striking a natural phenomenon should have failed to attract the attention of physicists and astronomers until the middle of the seventeenth century, or how it could have escaped the observation of the Atabian natural philosophers in ancient Bactria, on the euphrates, and in the south of Spain. —  COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
 

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