Mesopotamia (/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/, Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία “[land] between rivers” from Ancient Armenian Mijagetq; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين bilād ar-rāfidayn; Kurdish: میزۆپۆتامیا Persian: میانرودان miyān rodān; Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ Beth Nahrain “land of rivers”) is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.
Widely considered to be one of the cradles of civilization by the Western world, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, all native to the territory of modern-day Iraq. In the Iron Age, it was controlled by the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires.
The indigenous Sumerians and Akkadians (including Assyrians and Babylonians) dominated Mesopotamia from the beginning of written history (c. 3100 BC) to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC, when it was conquered by the Achaemenid Empire. It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it became part of the Greek Seleucid Empire.
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Keywords: Mesopotamia, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, Two rivers, land between two rivers, Sumer, Sumerian, Sumerian empire, Akkadian empire, Akkadian, Babylonia, Babylonian, Babylonian kingdom, Babylonian empire, Assyrian empire, Assyrian kingdom, Babylon
Bible reference(s): Gen 24:10, Deut 23:4, Judg 3:8, Judg 3:10, 1 Chr 19:6, Acts 2:9, Acts 7:2, Judith 2:24, Judith 5:7-8, Judith 8:26
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