Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors.
Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker.

Responsive image

Jaghjagh River

Jaghjagh River at Nusaybin.

The Jaghjagh River (Arabic: نهر جقجق Nahr Jaqjaq, نهر الجغجغ Nahr al-Jaghjagh, or Nahr al-Hirmas, Turkish: Çağ-çağ Deresi, Syriac: ܢܗܕܐ ܕܔܩܔܩ Nahro dJaqjaq, Kurdish: Çemê Nisêbînê or Cexcex)[1] is a tributary of the Khabur River in Turkey and Syria.

The river was known to the ancient Greeks as the Mygdonius (Ancient Greek: Μυγδόνιος), and lent its name to the city of Antioch in Mygdonia.[2]

  1. ^ Geonames database
  2. ^ NISIBIS. Encyclopaedia Iranica

Previous Page Next Page






نهر جقجق Arabic Kargazbenizra Dere CEB Dschaghdschagh German Μυγδόνιος Greek رود جغجغ FA Mygdonius French Çemê Nisêbînê KU Jaghjagh Dutch Jaghjagh NN Rio Jaghjagh Portuguese

Responsive image

Responsive image