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ID: 7013255
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013255
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of ʻIraq ʻArabi (general region)  ʻIraq ʻArabi (general region)

Note: Lower Mesopotamia, comprising the Tigris-Euphrates valley with Basra, Baghdad, and adjoining provinces; basically coextensive with ancient Babylonia; area was seat of great and broadly influential early civilizations from 4th millennium BCE.

Names:
ʻIraq ʻArabi (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Al-ʻIrāq (nation)  ........  Al-ʻIrāq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of ʻIraq ʻArabi (general region)  ............  ʻIraq ʻArabi (general region) (P)

Place Types:
general region (preferred, C)
kingdom (H)

Related geographic places:
coextensive with ....  Babylonia .......... (former nation/state/empire)
..............................  (World, Asia, Al-ʻIrāq) [7593899]

Sources and Contributors:
ʻIraq ʻArabi..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 548
Subject: .....  [GRLPSC, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) 548
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 103
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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