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As a result, the Tigris is more subject to catastrophic flooding than the Euphrates. Annual flooding usually results in the Tigris rising from 4Â½ to 9 feet, with a record rise of 27 feet in 1954.
Mesopotamia-The land between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River This page is copyright Â© 2003 N.S. Gill. both rivers have their headwaters in the republic of turkey and flow south and east through Syria and Iraq to finally join together north of the Iraqi city of Basra before emptying into the persian gulf.ippotamus -- river horse -- contains the same word for river (potam-). The two rivers of Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the Euphrates (Dijla and Furat, in Arabic). The Euphrates is the one on the left (west) in maps and the Tigris is the one closer to Iran.