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Updated: May 28, 2025
At the stated season of the melting of the snows in Armenia, the River Mygdonius, which divides the plain and the city of Nisibis, forms, like the Nile, an inundation over the adjacent country. By the labor of the Persians, the course of the river was stopped below the town, and the waters were confined on every side by solid mounds of earth.
I. The Aboras, or, as it is called by Xenophon, the Araxes, was fixed as the boundary between the two monarchies. That river, which rose near the Tigris, was increased, a few miles below Nisibis, by the little stream of the Mygdonius, passed under the walls of Singara, and fell into the Euphrates at Circesium, a frontier town, which, by the care of Diocletian, was very strongly fortified.
The remains of Artaxata, if they exist, must be looked for on some of the numerous positions which are nearly surrounded by the river. See the note of Sintenis. The Mygdonius is a branch of the Chaborras, which flows into the Euphrates. Two tall columns of marble and the church of St.
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