Narmalcha
| Author:Laxman Burdak, IFS (R) |
Narmalcha was a river of Mesopotamia mentioned by Pliny[1].
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Mention by Pliny
Pliny[2] mentions Mesopotamia .... There are writers who say that the Euphrates was drawn off by an artificial channel by the governor Gobares, at the point where we have stated15 that it branches off,16 in order that it might not commit damage in the city of Babylonia, in consequence of the extreme rapidity of its course. The Assyrians universally call this river by the name of Narmalcha17, which signifies the "royal river." At the point where its waters divide, there was in former times a very large city, called Agranis, which the Persæ have destroyed.
15 In B. v. c. 21.
16 This canal, leading from the Euphrates to the Tigris, is by some thought, according to Hardouin, to have been the river Chobar, mentioned in Ezekiel, c. i. v. 3.
17 For Arar-Melik, meaning the "River King," according to Parisot.