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

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