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    The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. While the southern is...
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    Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent...
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    The of Civilization of Mesopotamia ranges from the earliest human occupation in the Paleolithic period up to Late antiquity. This history is pieced together...
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    The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into five main regions: the desert (west of the Euphrates), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and...
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    Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle...
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  • a city in ancient Babylonia; see Geography of Mesopotamia Urra=hubullu is a major Babylonian glossary consisting of Sumerian and Akkadian lexical lists...
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    history of Mesopotamia, after the Ubaid period and before the Jemdet Nasr period. Named after the Sumerian city of Uruk, this period saw the emergence of urban...
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    The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several...
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    Art of Mesopotamia The art of Mesopotamia has survived in the record from early hunter-gatherer societies (8th millennium BC) on to the Bronze Age cultures...
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    important theme of Pourshariati's study is a re-evaluation of the traditional timeline. Pourshariati argues that the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia "took place...
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    (Historical / Former) France Greece (Ancient / Traditional / Geographic) Iraq (Mesopotamia) Latvia Lithuania Poland Portugal Serbia Sweden (Lands / Provinces)...
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    playing important roles in both religious and secular contexts. Mesopotamia is of particular interest to scholars because evidence from the region—which...
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    period (abbreviated ED period or ED) is an archaeological culture in Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) that is generally dated to c. 2900 – c. 2350 BC and...
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    The prehistory of Mesopotamia is the period between the Paleolithic and the emergence of writing in the area of the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris...
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    Assyria (redirect from Rise of Assyria)
    of both churches in 1997. Ancient Near East Chronology of the ancient Near East History of Mesopotamia Geography of Mesopotamia Music of Mesopotamia List...
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  • territory of modern Iraq. Mesopotamia may also refer to: Geographically, the Tigris–Euphrates river system Upper Mesopotamia Lower Mesopotamia Mesopotamia (Roman...
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  • Uruk (redirect from Fall of Uruk)
    force. Geographic factors underpin Uruk's unprecedented growth. The city was located in the southern part of Mesopotamia, an ancient site of civilization...
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    Levant (redirect from Western Mesopotamia)
    by the Taurus Mountains of Turkey in the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the west, the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia in the east, and Sinai in...
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    earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and...
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    La Mesopotamia or Región Mesopotámica is the humid and verdant area of northeast Argentina, comprising the provinces of Misiones, Entre Ríos, and Corrientes...
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    Mesopotamia) and further partition of the Ottoman Empire. Fighting began after an amphibious landing by an Anglo-Indian division at the fortress of Al-Faw...
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    Lower Mesopotamia is a historical region of Mesopotamia. It is located in the alluvial plain of Iraq from the Hamrin Mountains to the Faw Peninsula near...
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    The Jemdet Nasr Period is an archaeological culture in southern Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq). It is generally dated from 3100 to 2900 BC. It is named...
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  • also transliterated as Laodikeia or Laodiceia was a Hellenistic city in Mesopotamia. Pliny (vi. 30) places Laodicea along with Seleucia and Artemita. Laodicea's...
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    Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (category Presidents of the Royal Geographical Society)
    the Cuneiform character. The Author of various papers on the philology, antiquities, and Geography of Mesopotamia and Central Asia. Eminent as a Scholar"...
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    ISSN 0035-1725. ZADOK, Ran (January 1, 1989). "Notes on the Historical Geography of Mesopotamia and Northern Syria". Ancient Near Eastern Studies. 27 (0): 154–169...
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    Egypt–Mesopotamia relations were the relations between the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, in the Middle East. They seem to have developed...
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    Tucumán, Catamarca Gran Chaco: Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero Mesopotamia (or Littoral): Misiones, Entre Ríos, Corrientes Cuyo: San Juan, La Rioja...
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    and Sumerian rule in Mesopotamia, the Gutians are now known to have been in the area for at least a century by then. By the end of the Akkadian period...
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    Samarra culture (category Ancient Upper Mesopotamia)
    The Samarra culture is a Late Neolithic archaeological culture of northern Mesopotamia, roughly dated to between 5500 and 4800 BCE. It partially overlaps...
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