The Shokh or Shattak river in Kurdistan appears to be the most distant of the sources of the eastern Tigris, arising from the foot of the lofty chain of Billi, from the snow-clad crest of which Mr. Layard clearly distinguished the Peak of Ararat, 145 miles distant. The country traversed on this occasion between Lake Van and the Great Zab is indeed throughout new to geographers, and was hitherto a blank on their maps.[1] It joins the Mox river "about three miles north-west of Khoskheyr", where "the united streams then take the name of the Bohtan Su" and eventually flow into the Tigris at Til (Çattepe).[2][3]
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- ^ New Monthly Magazine - Page 446 by Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth
- ^ J. G. Taylor "Travels in Kurdistan, with Notices of the Sources of the Eastern and Western Tigris, and Ancient Ruins in Their Neighbourhood" , Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London Vol. 35, (1865) (pp. 21-58), p.47 [1]
- ^ "Çattepe ve Başur Mound". mezopotamya.travel. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
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