Lower Mesopotamia[1][2] is a historical region of Mesopotamia. It is located in the alluvial plain of Iraq from the Hamrin Mountains to the Faw Peninsula near the Persian Gulf.
In the Middle Ages it was also known as the Sawad and al-Jazira al-sflia ("Lower Jazira"), which strictly speaking designated only the southern alluvial plain,[3] and Arab Iraq, as opposed to Persian Iraq, the Jibal.[4] Lower Mesopotamia was home to Sumer and Babylonia.[5]
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LowerMesopotamia is a historical region of Mesopotamia. It is located in the alluvial plain of Iraq from the Hamrin Mountains to the Faw Peninsula near...
term Mesopotamia. A further distinction is usually made between Northern or Upper Mesopotamia and Southern or LowerMesopotamia. Upper Mesopotamia, also...
period; Niniveh V in Upper Mesopotamia (which follows the Gawra culture); the "Scarlet Ware" culture in Diyala. In LowerMesopotamia, the Early Dynastic Period...
Kasdim in Southern Mesopotamia. Woolley's identification was challenged with the discovery of the city of Harran in northern Mesopotamia, near the present-day...
northern section of Mesopotamia,[citation needed] while the LowerMesopotamia, also known as Sawād, is the southern part of Mesopotamia. The name means "island"...
overlapped with cultural distinctions. The agriculture of southern or LowerMesopotamia, the land of Sumer and Akkad, which later became Babylonia received...
term Mesopotamia. A further distinction is usually made between Upper or Northern Mesopotamia and Lower or Southern Mesopotamia. Upper Mesopotamia, also...
the Euphrates), Upper Mesopotamia (between the upper Tigris and Euphrates rivers), the northern highlands of Iraq, LowerMesopotamia, and the alluvial plain...
The prehistory of Mesopotamia is the period between the Paleolithic and the emergence of writing in the area of the Fertile Crescent around the Tigris...
great-grandson of Noah, Nimrod was described as a king in the land of Shinar (LowerMesopotamia). The Bible states that he was "a mighty hunter before the Lord [and]...
The architecture of Mesopotamia is ancient architecture of the region of the Tigris–Euphrates river system (also known as Mesopotamia), encompassing several...
term Mesopotamia. A further distinction is usually made between Upper or Northern Mesopotamia and Lower or Southern Mesopotamia. Upper Mesopotamia is the...
largely corresponds with the territory of ancient Mesopotamia. The history of Mesopotamia extends from the Lower Paleolithic period until the establishment of...
Akkad (r. 2334–2279 BC) and expressed a claim to rule the entirety of lowerMesopotamia (composed of the regions of Sumer in the south and Akkad in the north)...
Asoristan, which was the Sasanians' political and economic centre in Mesopotamia. Later, the regional Rashidun army commander Khalid ibn al-Walid was...
(זָקַר) 'protrude') is a type of massive structure built in ancient Mesopotamia. It has the form of a terraced compound of successively receding storeys...
mountains were part of the frontier region between LowerMesopotamia (Babylonia) to the south and Upper Mesopotamia (Assyria) to the north. Maisels, Charles Keith...
Art of Mesopotamia The art of Mesopotamia has survived in the record from early hunter-gatherer societies (8th millennium BC) on to the Bronze Age cultures...
rivers and possible effects on the evolution of civilizations in lowerMesopotamia". Geoarchaeology. 20 (4): 401–423. Bibcode:2005Gearc..20..401M. doi:10...
as Aθūrā ("Athura"). The Sasanian Empire inexplicably referred to LowerMesopotamia as Asoristan ("land of the Assyrians"), though the northern province...
Insigniorum (1553 CE) Born 1788 AM (Masoretic chronology) Ur, Sumer (now in LowerMesopotamia, Iraq) Died 2027 AM (aged 239) (Masoretic chronology) Children Serug...
a horde that swept in and brought down Akkadian and Sumerian rule in Mesopotamia, the Gutians are now known to have been in the area for at least a century...
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