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Mesopotamia (general region) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 044 00 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 44.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Area of Tigris and Euphrates rivers, from mountains of Asia Minor to Persian Gulf; includes parts of modern Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey; seat of Babylonia and Assyria 3000-325 BCE, of Mitanni kingdom 1475 BCE; part of Persian, Parthian, Roman, and Sassanid empires. The name is Greek for "the land between the rivers." |
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| Mesopotamia (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)
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............ | after time of Alexander the Great |
| Mesopotamia (Spanish,U)
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| Mesopotamia (Italian,U)
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| Mésopotamie (C,O,French-P,U,N)
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| Mesopotamian (C,O,English,U,A)
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| מסופוטמיה (C,U,Hebrew )
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| Mespotamien (C,U,German)
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| Μεσοποταμία (C,U,Ancient Greek)
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| Paddan-Aram (H,O)
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............ | Biblical, recorded in Genesis |
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| general region (preferred, C) |
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| province (H) |
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northern Mesopotamia was made a province of the Roman Empire in 115 CE by the emperor Trajan; reformed by Septimius Severus in 199 CE |
| area (C) |
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| former administrative division (C) |
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| first level subdivision (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| meaning/usage overlaps with .... |
Ancient Syria .......... (general region) |
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(World, Asia) [8711750] |
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