Note 103 — Chapter X · CAMPAIGN OF KHALID IN IRAC. A.H. XII. A.D. 633.
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This, as well as the main stream, is sometimes called by our historians Furât, or Euphrates; at other times by its proper name of Bâdacla, and also Al Atîck, the ‘old’ or deserted channel; but the streams have varied their course from age to age.