"Tiber The Tiber (; ; ) is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio, where it is joined by the river Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and Fiumicino. It drains a basin estimated at . The river has achieved lasting fame as the main watercourse of the city of Rome, founded on its eastern banks. The river rises at Mount Fumaiolo in central Italy and flows in a generally southerly direction past Perugia and Rome to meet the sea at Ostia. Popularly called """" (""the blond""),"
"of Rome""), to mark the association of the Fascist regime with the ancient Roman empire. A Roman eagle stands on the top of the column, and three wolf heads holding a ring in their mouths are visible on the sides. In its first kilometers the river Tiber runs in Emilia Romagna, then it enters in , in Tuscany, before crossing the Umbria region and the Lazio region and Rome. After 405 kilometers, the river Tiber pours its waters into the Tirreno sea. The Tiber is the third Italian river by length (after the rivers Po and Adige), and the second"
"Statue of the Tiber river with Romulus and Remus The Statue of the Tiber river with Romulus and Remus is a large statue of the ancient Rome exhibited at the Louvre museum (Paris, France). It is an allegory of the Tiber River that waters the city of Rome. The Tiber is depicted as a middle-aged man, bearded, and half lying, according to the patterns of typical representation of the gods-river. He holds the attributes signifying the benefits he lavishes to Rome: At the foot of the statue lies the she-wolf breastfeeding the twins Romulus and Remus, who had been abandoned"
"Tiber Creek Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek was originally called Goose Creek. It is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815 when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Today, it is underground in tunnels around the city including under Constitution Avenue NW. Originally called ""Goose Creek"", it was renamed by settler Francis Pope. Pope owned a farmstead along the banks of the creek which, in a play on his surname, he named ""Rome"" after the Italian city, and he renamed the creek in honor of the"
"former and the Rhone basins. See Jura water correction. Orbe (river) The Orbe () is a river of the Rhine basin. It starts in France and flows to Switzerland to finally flow into the river Aare. On the final leg of its course, it takes the name La Thièle or La Thielle. Not to be mistaken with the Orbe, which is a tributary of the Arrats. The Orbe has its source near Rousses, forms the lac des Rousses before flowing down to lac de Joux in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It disappears naturally underground for a stretch of 4 km,"
"Germany. Then the Biber flows through the town of Blumenfeld, where she falls over the Blumenfeld waterfall. After Beuren, the Riedgraben flows in from the left. After Büßlingen, it crosses the border into Switzerland, where it flows through the former municipalities of Hofen and Bibern, before flowing through Thayngen, the seat of the former Reiat district. Shortly after Thayngen, the Biber leaves Switzerland and flows through Bietingen and Randegg, where the Dorfbach joins, coming from Gottmadingen. Then it crosses the border again and the last kilometers flow through the upper part of the canton of Schaffhausen, through the municipalities of"
"Biber (Rhine) The Biber is a small river on the border between Germany and Switzerland. The source is located at Watterdingen in the municipality Tengen, district of Constance in Baden-Wuerttemberg. After about the Biber river flows into the Rhine at the Bibermühle (Biber Mill) west of Hemishofen in the Canton of Schaffhausen. The Biber is the largest tributary of the High Rhine on the stretch between Stein am Rhein and Schaffhausen. On its way to the Rhine, the Biber crosses the Swiss-German border three times. The source of the Biber is near Watterdingen in the municipality Tengen, in the Hegau,"
"Ticino (river) The river Ticino (; ; ; French and ; ) is the most important perennial left-bank tributary of the Po. It has given its name to the Swiss canton through which its upper portion flows. The river rises in the Val Bedretto in Switzerland at the frontier between the cantons of Valais and Ticino, is fed by the glaciers of the Alps and later flows through Lake Maggiore, before entering Italy. The Ticino joins the Po a few kilometres downstream (along the Ticino) from Pavia. It is about long. The highest point of the drainage basin is the"
"Orbe (river) The Orbe () is a river of the Rhine basin. It starts in France and flows to Switzerland to finally flow into the river Aare. On the final leg of its course, it takes the name La Thièle or La Thielle. Not to be mistaken with the Orbe, which is a tributary of the Arrats. The Orbe has its source near Rousses, forms the lac des Rousses before flowing down to lac de Joux in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland. It disappears naturally underground for a stretch of 4 km, to reappear in Vallorbe - where a special ecotourism"
"first one, from Città di Castello to the border with Lazio. The Tiber River forms the approximate border with Lazio, although its source is just over the Tuscan border. The Tiber's three principal tributaries flow southward through Umbria. The Chiascio basin is relatively uninhabited as far as Bastia Umbra. About farther on, it joins the Tiber at Torgiano. The Topino, cleaving the Apennines with passes that the Via Flaminia and successor roads follow, makes a sharp turn at Foligno to flow NW for a few kilometres before joining the Chiascio below Bettona. The third river is the Nera, flowing into"
"River Tib The River Tib is a minor tributary of the River Medlock in Manchester, England. It has been culverted along its entire length since probably about 1820 and now runs beneath Manchester city centre. Tib Street () and Tib Lane are named after the watercourse. During the Roman period, the Tib marked the boundary of the ""vicus"" or settlement of Mamucium; the river continued to mark Manchester's boundary until medieval times, as well as providing drinking water. A notion concerning the Tib's name, coined by Geoffrey Ashworth in his book ""The Lost Rivers of Manchester"", is that the river"
"Stöbber The Stöbber (also: ""Stobber"") is the central river in the hilly landscape of „Märkische Schweiz“ and the Märkische Schweiz Nature Park, Brandenburg, Germany. The stream runs over a distance of 25 kilometers from the fen and source region of Rotes Luch towards the northeast through Buckow to the Oderbruch. Near Neuhardenberg the Stöbber flows into the Alte Oder, whose waters run over some canals to the Oder River and the Baltic Sea. On a roughly 13 kilometer long route of its course there is designated the nature protection area „Naturschutzgebiet Stobbertal“. In Altfriedland the river passes the Damm-Mühle (water"
"of Capitol Hill then heading west to flow into the Potomac River near Jefferson Pier. The overall course of the creek was kept when the Canal was built in 1815. Tiber Creek Tiber Creek or Tyber Creek was originally called Goose Creek. It is a tributary of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.. It was a free-flowing creek until 1815 when it was channeled to become part of the Washington City Canal. Today, it is underground in tunnels around the city including under Constitution Avenue NW. Originally called ""Goose Creek"", it was renamed by settler Francis Pope. Pope owned a"
"being navigable as far as Rome itself. The Tiber was once known for its floods — the Campus Martius is a flood plain and would regularly flood to a depth of . The river is now confined between high stone embankments which were begun in 1876. Within the city, the riverbanks are lined by boulevards known as ""lungoteveri"", streets ""along the Tiber"". Because the river is identified with Rome, the terms ""swimming the Tiber"" or ""crossing the Tiber"" have come to be the Protestant shorthand term for converting to Roman Catholicism. This is most common if the person who converts"
"Tigris The Tigris (; Sumerian: ""Idigna"" ""Idigina""; Akkadian: '; ""Dijlah"" ; '; ""Tigris""; ""Dglatʿ""; """", ""Hiddekel""; ; ) is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties itself into the Persian Gulf. The Tigris is 1,750 km long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey about 25 km southeast of the city of Elazig and about 30 km from the headwaters of the Euphrates. The river then flows for 400 km through Turkish territory before becoming the"
"the Tiber further south, at Terni; its valley is called the ""Valnerina"". The upper Nera cuts ravines in the mountains; the lower, in the Tiber basin, has created a wide floodplain. In antiquity, the plain was covered by a pair of shallow, interlocking lakes, the Lacus Clitorius and the Lacus Umber. They were drained by the Romans over several hundred years. An earthquake in the 4th century and the political collapse of the Roman Empire resulted in the refilling of the basin. It was drained a second time, almost a thousand years later, during a 500-year period: Benedictine monks started"
"Thyra (river) The Thyra is a long river in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The Thyra begins its course in the old quarter of Stolberg in the Harz Mountains at the confluence of three mountain streams - the Große Wilde, Kleine Wilde and Lude - and then flows through Stolberg, where several streams join it, before heading south through a steep valley to Rottleberode. Here the Thyra valley becomes very wide, but near Uftrungen it narrows again. South of Uftrungen the Thyra leaves the Harz and enters the Goldene Aue, crossing the Bösenrode and"
"area of the Rhine, which empties into the North Sea via the Netherlands, and the Danube, which flows eastward emptying into the Black Sea. It enters Austria at Piz Buin in the Silvretta Alps running along the Arlberg massif and forming the border between the states of Tyrol and Vorarlberg. It reaches Bavaria, Germany via the crest of the Allgäu Alps and leaves the High Alps at the Adelegg range near Kempten. Within the Alpine foothills it runs north of the Schussen catchment area of Lake Constance towards the sources of the Brigach and Breg headwaters of the Danube in"
"in reference to the yellowish colour of its water, the Tiber has heavily advanced at the mouth by about since Roman times, leaving the ancient port of Ostia Antica inland. However, it does not form a proportional delta, owing to a strong north-flowing sea current close to the shore, to the steep shelving of the coast, and to slow tectonic subsidence. The source of the Tiber consists of two springs away from each other on Mount Fumaiolo. These springs are called ""Le Vene"". The springs are in a beech forest above sea level. During the 1930s, Benito Mussolini placed an"
"Battle of Trebbia in 1799 which pitted a Republican French army against the allied armies of the Russian Empire and Habsburg Austria. Tidone The Tidone is a river in the Region of Emilia Romagna in northern Italy. It is a right-bank tributary of the Po River. The stream rises in the Apennine Mountains near Monte Penice and flows in a northerly direction into the Po. The Tidone's sources are on the northern slope of Monte Penice at an altitude of over in the Apennine Mountains in the municipality of Menconico. The river flows down a narrow mountain valley called the"
"was given its name by homesick Roman soldiers after the River Tiber, but with the word shortened to reflect the size difference between the two rivers. Alternatively, the name may derive from the Celtic word for ""watercourse"". The river's source is a spring in Miles Platting (), from where it flows underneath Oldham Road and the eponymous Tib Street to reach the city centre. After flowing underneath West Mosley Street, the Tib crosses Princess Street to flow underneath the Manchester Town Hall Extension, the Central Library and the Midland Hotel's dining room, before joining the Medlock at Gaythorn (now First"
"Timiș River The Timiș or Tamiš (, / ""Tamiš"", , ) is a long river originating from the Semenic Mountains (), southern Carpathian Mountains, Caraș-Severin County, Romania. It flows through the Banat region and flows into the Danube near Pančevo, in northern Serbia. In antiquity, the river was known as ""Tibiscus"" (in Latin) and ""Tibisis"" (Θίβισις in ancient Greek); in addition, Edward Gibbon referred to it as the ""Teyss"". ""The Romans, who traversed the plains of Hungary, suppose that they passed several navigable rivers, either in canoes or portable boats; but there is reason to suspect that the winding stream"
"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 of Turkey, Iraq and Syria. The river originates in the Uludere District in Turkey and emerges from a number of small rivers flowing off the Bolkar mountain range south-east of Hakkâri. From there, it generally flows south, crossing the Turkish-Iraqi border into Iraqi Kurdistan before turning west toward the Tigris. Zakho is an important town along the river, where the ancient Delal Bridge crosses"
"tomb of Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal and Syed Abdul Razzaq Jilani is in Baghdad and the flow of Tigris restricts the number of visitors. The river featured on the coat of arms of Iraq from 1932-1959. Tigris The Tigris (; Sumerian: ""Idigna"" ""Idigina""; Akkadian: '; ""Dijlah"" ; '; ""Tigris""; ""Dglatʿ""; """", ""Hiddekel""; ; ) is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties itself into the Persian Gulf. The Tigris is 1,750 km long, rising in the Taurus"
"of the Teyss, or Tibiscus, might present itself in different places under different names."" The drainage area covers . With the Danube, it belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin. The river flows through Romania for , and through Serbia. The river starts at the confluence of headwaters Brebu, Grădiștea and Semenic in Lake Trei Ape. After entering Banat, the river becomes slow and meandering. In its lower course, the river is regulated, and for the last it is navigable. The most important port is the heavily industrialized Pančevo. After Banat, floods occur in rainy years. Especially devastating were the"
"of the border between East Germany and West Germany. During the 1970s, the Soviet Union stated that Adolf Hitler's ashes had been scattered in the Elbe following disinterment from their original burial site. Elbe The Elbe (; ; ; Low German: ""Elv"") is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia (Czech Republic), then Germany and flowing into the North Sea at Cuxhaven, northwest of Hamburg. Its total length is . The Elbe's major tributaries include the rivers Vltava, Saale, Havel, Mulde, Schwarze Elster,"
"Sieber (river) The Sieber is a 35-kilometre-long, right hand tributary of the Oder in the Harz mountains of Germany. It rises at 760 metres on the Bruchberg massif and flows through Herzberg before discharging at Hattorf into the Oder which, in turn, flows into the Rhume. Its tributaries include the Große Kulmke, Große Lonau and Goldenke. In February 1910, as part of his hydrological research into the ""Rhumequelle"", Karl Thürnau dyed the Sieber tributary of the ""Eichelbach"" (Herzberg) with six kilogrammes of fluorescein. Three days later, weakly dyed water appeared in the main source of the ""Rhumequelle"". This was confirmed"
"Humber River (Newfoundland and Labrador) The Humber River is a river on Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is approximately 120 kilometres long, flowing through the Long Range Mountains, southeast then southwest, through Deer Lake, to the Bay of Islands at Corner Brook. It begins near Hampden, Newfoundland. Taylor's Brook, Aidies Stream and Dead Water Brook run into the upper Humber. The Humber is one of Newfoundland's longest rivers. James Cook first charted the Humber in the summer of 1767. It was named for its English counterpart the Humber (estuary). The Humber is rich in Atlantic"
"had been Anglican, the reverse of which is referred to as ""swimming the Thames"" or ""crossing the Thames"". In ancient Rome, executed criminals were thrown into the Tiber. People executed at the Gemonian stairs were thrown in the Tiber during the later part of the reign of the emperor Tiberius. This practice continued over the centuries. For example, the corpse of Pope Formosus was thrown into the Tiber after the infamous Cadaver Synod held in 897. In addition to the numerous modern bridges over the Tiber in Rome, there remain a few ancient bridges (now mostly pedestrian-only) that have survived"
"Berga, before this little river enters the Helme. Several things are named after the Thyra, for example the Thyra thermal baths (""Thyratherme"") in Stolberg or the railway line known as the Thyraliesel. Thyra (river) The Thyra is a long river in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the Harz Mountains of central Germany. The Thyra begins its course in the old quarter of Stolberg in the Harz Mountains at the confluence of three mountain streams - the Große Wilde, Kleine Wilde and Lude - and then flows through Stolberg, where several streams join it, before heading south through a steep valley"
"Lippe (river) The Lippe () is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Rhine and in length with an elevation difference of 125 metres and a catchment area of 4.890 km². The source is located at the edge of the Teutoburg Forest in Bad Lippspringe close to the city of Paderborn. It runs westward through Paderborn, Lippstadt and then along the northern edge of the Ruhr area, parallel to the river Emscher and river Ruhr. The river finally enters the Rhine at Wesel. The river Lippe has been used as an infrastructure in Roman"
"Tisza The Tisza or Tisa is one of the main rivers of Central and Eastern Europe. Once, it was called ""the most Hungarian river"" because it flowed entirely within the Kingdom of Hungary. Today, it crosses several national borders. The Tisza begins near Rakhiv in Ukraine, at the confluence of the White Tisa and Black Tisa (the former springs in the Chornohora mountains; the latter in the Gorgany range). From there, the Tisza flows west, roughly following Ukraine's borders with Romania and Hungary, then into Hungary, and finally into Serbia. It enters Hungary at Tiszabecs. It traverses Hungary from north"
"Thielle The river Thielle (, ), is a tributary to the Aare, in the Swiss Seeland. The Thielle results from the merging of the Orbe and Talent, northeast of the little city of Orbe in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It flows as a channel northeastwards through an intensively cultivated plain called ""Plaine de l'Orbe"" and flows after only 9 km into the Lake of Neuchâtel at Yverdon-les-Bains. The natural course of the river was considerably modified during the Jura water correction. Between the Lakes of Neuchâtel and Biel/Bienne it was converted into a dug-out channel. However, the previous natural"