The River Tigris rises in which country ?
Khabur (Tigris) the river. A few kilometres west of Zakho, the Little Khabur is joined by its main tributary the Hezil Suyu (or Nizil river or Hezil Çayı), which forms part of the border between Iraq and Turkey. From there onward the Little Khabur river forms the border for around 20 km to the Tigris and is also called (and often mistaken with) the Hezil Suyu. Khabur (Tigris) The Khabur or Little Khabur (, "Ava Xabûr" or "Xabîr", , "Khabir" or "Habur Suyu" ("Habur Water")) is river that rises in Turkey and flows through Iraq to join the Tigris at the tripoint
Tigris 2900 B.C. The Tigris has long been an important transport route in a largely desert country. Shallow-draft vessels can go as far as Baghdad, but rafts are needed for transport upstream to Mosul. General Francis Rawdon Chesney hauled two steamers overland through Syria in 1836 to explore the possibility of an overland and river route to India. One steamer, the "Tigris", was wrecked in a storm which sank and killed twenty. Chesney proved the river navigable to powered craft. Later, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company was established in 1861 by the Lynch Brothers trading company. They had 2