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  2. Euphrates - Wikipedia

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    Plan, topographic representation of Babylon. The clay tablet depicts "Tu-ba", a suburb of the ancient city of Babylon. The River Euphrates is represented by the water-lined band. 660-500 BCE. British Museum. The Euphrates is the longest river of Western Asia. [9]

  3. Sippar - Wikipedia

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    Sippar (Sumerian: 饞寭饞剴饞墸饞啝, Zimbir) (also Sippir or Sippara) was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some 69 km (43 mi) north of Babylon and 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Baghdad.

  4. Geography of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Tell Hadidi - Wikipedia

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    Tell Hadidi (ancient Azu) is an ancient Near East archaeological site in Syria about 30 kilometers north of Emar and 5 kilometers north of Ekalte. It lies on the west bank of the Euphrates River on the opposite bank from Tell es-Sweyhat. It is thought to be a paired city with Tell es-Sweyhat controlling a Euphrates river crossing.

  6. Babylon - Wikipedia

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    Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.

  7. Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    A map of the Fertile Crescent including the location of ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Tigris and Euphrates River valleys form the northeastern portion of the Fertile Crescent, which also included the Jordan River valley and that of the Nile.

  8. Tell Abu Hureyra - Wikipedia

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    Tell Abu Hureyra (Arabic: 鬲賱 兀亘賵 賴乇賷乇丞) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Upper Euphrates valley in Syria.The tell was inhabited between 13,300 and 7,800 cal. BP [1] in two main phases: Abu Hureyra 1, dated to the Epipalaeolithic, was a village of sedentary hunter-gatherers; Abu Hureyra 2, dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic, was home to some of the world's first farmers. [2]

  9. Upper Mesopotamia - Wikipedia

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    Tigris river flows through Mosul, near the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, which is a major settlement and hosts farmland in Upper Mesopotamia. The name al-Jazira has been used since the 7th century AD by Islamic sources to refer to the northern section of Mesopotamia, [citation needed] while the Lower Mesopotamia, also known as Saw膩d, is the southern part of Mesopotamia.

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