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Euphrates
The Euphrates is western Asia's longest river, rising in Turkey and flowing through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris; 2,786 km long, 25 billion m³ annual flow, central to Mesopotamian civilization and modern water disputes.
Euphrates bridge (Babylon)
The Euphrates bridge at Babylon was a crossing of stone piers carrying a removable wooden deck, built under Nabopolassar or Nebuchadnezzar II and excavated in 1910.
Euphrates campaign of Thutmose I
The Euphrates campaign of Thutmose I was a New Kingdom military expedition sent about 1504 BC into northern Syria as far as the Euphrates river.
Euphrates campaign of Thutmose III
The Euphrates campaign of Thutmose III was the pharaoh's eighth campaign, around 1447 BC against Mitanni in northern Syria, crossing the Euphrates with cedar boats hauled 250 miles overland.
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders
Euphrates Handmade Syrian Horses and Riders are handmade clay horse and rider figurines of the Iron Age Middle Euphrates valley, peaking in the seventh century BC.
Euphrates Sulcus
Euphrates Sulcus, a 155 km sulcus on Saturn's moon Enceladus at latitude -68°, longitude 276° W; IAU-approved, named for the Euphrates river from the Arabian Nights theme.
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines
Euphrates Syrian Pillar Figurines are handmade, pillar-shaped clay human figurines of the Middle Euphrates region, peaking in the 7th century BC, with Karkemish as their main production center.
Euphronios Krater
The Euphronios Krater, also called the Sarpedon Krater, is an Attic red-figure calyx-krater painted by Euphronios in Athens around 515 BCE, now displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Cerveteri, Italy.
Euphrosyne family
The Euphrosyne family is a high-inclination, low-albedo carbonaceous asteroid family in the outer main belt around 3.15 au, named for its largest member 31 Euphrosyne.
Euphrosyne of Polotsk
Euphrosyne of Polotsk (Евфросиния Полоцкая), in secular life Princess Predslava, was a princess of Kievan Rus' who became a nun and abbess, founded two monasteries at Polotsk, and is venerated as a saint of Belarus.
Euphues
Euphues is the hero of John Lyly's two Elizabethan prose fictions, The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580), whose ornate style gave its name to euphuism.
Euphuism
Euphuism is an ornate Elizabethan prose style named after the hero of John Lyly's Euphues (1578), characterized by parallel structures, alliteration, and similes from classical mythology.
Euphyllia ancora
Euphyllia ancora, the hammer or anchor coral, now Fimbriaphyllia ancora, is an Indo-west-Pacific large-polyp stony coral with anchor-tipped tentacles; IUCN Least Concern (2023) but decreasing, and a Queensland coral fishery target.
Euplectella
Euplectella, or Venus' flower basket (Euplectella aspergillum), a deep-sea glass sponge genus with a fused silica lattice skeleton that traps shrimp, acts as biological optical fiber, and dates to the Ordovician Anji Biota.
Euplectes
Euplectes (Swainson, 1829) is the African genus of bishops and widowbirds, 17 polygynous weaverbird species (Ploceidae) of sub-Saharan grasslands, whose breeding males wear black plumage with carotenoid yellow-to-red patches and, in widowbirds, long nuptial tails.
Euplectes ardens
Euplectes ardens, the Red-collared Widowbird (euplecte veuve-noire), a polygynous Ploceidae weaver of African savannas; black breeding males with ~22 cm tails and red collars; IUCN Least Concern.
Euproctus
Euproctus (European mountain salamanders) is a salamandrid newt genus with two species, E. montanus of Corsica and E. platycephalus of Sardinia, restricted to Tyrrhenian island streams after Calotriton was split off in 2005.
EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex (eur-lex.europa.eu) is the EU's official portal for EU law in 24 languages, run by the Publications Office; it hosts all Official Journals since 1952 and, since 1 July 2013, the authentic electronic Official Journal.
EUR-pallet
The EUR-pallet, also called the EPAL-pallet, is a standardized wooden pallet measuring 800 × 1,200 mm, introduced by European railways in 1961 for exchange freight.
EUR.1 movement certificate
EUR.1 movement certificate: customs-endorsed proof of preferential origin for EU preferential trade agreements, including the PEM zone; green guilloche form, €6,000 invoice-declaration alternative, 10-month validity, electronic e-PoC issuance.
EURAMET
EURAMET, the European Association of National Metrology Institutes, is a non-profit association founded in Berlin in 2007 that took over EUROMET's role coordinating Europe's national metrology institutes and runs EU metrology research programs.
Eurasia
Eurasia, the combined landmass of Europe and Asia, is the largest continent at about 55 million square kilometers, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, divided by a conventional Ural-Caucasus boundary and central to Russian Eurasianism and current geopolitics.
EurAsia Daily
EurAsia Daily (EADaily) is a Moscow-based, Russian-language online news agency founded in 2015, covering the post-Soviet space from a pro-Kremlin editorial line; the EU suspended its broadcasting in February 2025. Not the Jamestown Eurasia Daily Monitor.
Eurasia Tunnel
The Eurasia Tunnel (Avrasya Tüneli) is a 5.4 km double-deck toll road tunnel beneath the Bosphorus in Istanbul, connecting Kazlıçeşme on the European side with Göztepe on the Asian side.
Eurasian beaver
Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber), one of two living beaver species, native to Europe and Asia; ecosystem engineer with 48 chromosomes; fell to c. 1,200 animals, now c. 1.5 million, half in Russia; IUCN Least Concern.
Eurasian blackcap
The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) is a common warbler of European and North African woodlands and gardens, the male named for its glossy black crown.
Eurasian blue tit
Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus, Mésange bleue, Blaumeise): small European tit of woodlands and gardens with blue cap, white face, yellow underparts; cavity nester, insect eater, IUCN Least Concern, known for milk-bottle cream raiding.
Eurasian brown bear
Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos), nominate subspecies of the brown bear across European and Caucasus forests; about 17,000-20,400 in Europe, recovering under the Bern Convention and Habitats Directive, with conflicts over livestock, orchards, and rare attacks.
Eurasian bullfinch
Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), a Palearctic finch from the British Isles to the Far East; male rose-red with black cap; feeds on seeds and fruit-tree buds; Least Concern, increasing in Europe.
Eurasian carp
Eurasian carp (Cyprinus carpio, common carp) is a cyprinid fish native to Black, Caspian, and Aral sea drainages, domesticated since about 6000 BC, a top farmed fish, and a widespread introduced pest in North America; IUCN Least Concern.