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Mesopotamia [a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq. [1] [2] In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait. [3] [4]
Map showing the extent of Mesopotamia. The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, centered on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates.While the southern is flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot where the undulating plateau of the north sinks suddenly into the Babylonian alluvium, tends to separate them still more ...
Satellite image of the Mesopotamian Marshes, 2000–2009 Mesopotamian Marshes in 2007. As their name suggests, the Mesopotamian Marshes are located in the larger region which used to be called Mesopotamia. Modern day Mesopotamia is now occupied by Iraq, parts of eastern Syria, south-eastern Turkey, southwest Iran, and northern Kuwait.
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Location map for Mesopotamia: Date: 28 October 2010, 12:39 (UTC) Source: World_location_map.svg; Author: ... This image is a derivative work of the following images:
Sumer (/ ˈ s uː m ər /) is the earliest known civilization, located in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (now south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC.
Modern archaeological and geological evidence places Magan in the area currently encompassed by Oman and the United Arab Emirates. [4] [5]In the past, historians had debated possible locations, including the region of Yemen known as Ma'in, [6] in the south of Upper Egypt, in Nubia or the Sudan, and others as part of today's Iran and Pakistan.
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