shatt-el

Updated: May 7, 2025

It is a quiet stream, flowing along in majestic dignity almost from its two sources, in the Armenian mountains, not far from the town of Erzerum, until it is joined by the Tigris in the extreme south. As the Shatt-el Arab, i.e., Arabic River, the two reach the Persian Gulf.

Morris Jastrow - The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria