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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b28f7e9-51bb-428e-8afd-ca6de77459c8/9234FD8D-2FCD-49B5-9947-6FE286571C3E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tigris&oldid=300408959" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tigris&oldid=300408959" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tigris&oldid=300408959"><P><A title="Baghdad" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad">Baghdad</A>, the capital of <A title="Iraq" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq">Iraq</A>, stands on the banks of the Tigris. The port city of <A title="Basra" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basra">Basra</A> straddles the Shatt al-Arab. In ancient times, many of the great cities of Mesopotamia stood on or near the Tigris, drawing water from it to irrigate the civilization of the <A class="mw-redirect" title="Sumerians" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumerians">Sumerians</A>. Notable Tigris-side cities included <A title="Nineveh" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineveh">Nineveh</A>, <A title="Ctesiphon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctesiphon">Ctesiphon</A>, and <A class="mw-redirect" title="Seleucia on the Tigris" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucia_on_the_Tigris">Seleucia</A>, while the city of <A title="Lagash" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagash">Lagash</A> was irrigated by Tigris water delivered to it via a canal dug around 2400 BC. <A title="Saddam Hussein" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein">Saddam Hussein</A>'s hometown, <A title="Tikrit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikrit">Tikrit</A>, is also located on the river and derives its name from it.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9234FD8D-2FCD-49B5-9947-6FE286571C3E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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