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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 Iraq (nation)  ........  Iraq (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, Iraq) [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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