Teredon

P. R. 3. 292. (See also Balsara, Euphrates.) An ancient city near the mouth of the stream formed by the junction of the Tigris and Euphrates. (Strabo 16. 3. 2, 4.) Dionysius Periegetes says that the River Euphrates “at its very mouth flows near Teredon.” (Line 982). The exact condition at the time of Alexander the Great, when Nearchus, one of his officers, visited Teredon, is unknown. It changes because of the great amount of silt brought down by the rivers, and the ease with which they alter their channels. The city did not occupy the site of the modern Busra (Balsara) though it There is a tradition that Teredon fulfilled the same function. was built by Nebuchadnezzar, though it is “of later fame” in (Smith, that it first became known in the time of Alexander. Diet. Cla ical Geog., s. v.) 304