Ancient Babylonia - Khabur River
The Khabur river is 200 miles long, rising in SE Turkey, and flowing generally
south through NE Syria to enter the Euphrates River, near Dayr az Zawr. The
Khabur River project, begun in the 1960s, involved the construction of a series
of dams and canals. The Khabur valley, which now has about 4 million acres (1.6
million hectares) of farmland, is Syria's main wheat-producing area. In ancient
times the Khabur was known as the Habor; along its banks in Gozan the
Israelite captives from Samaria were settled in the 8th cent. B.C. (2 Kings 17.6;
18.11).
Ancient Babylonia
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