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Mesopotamia

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Mesopotamia"

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iraqnoun	A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Republic of Iraq. Capital and largest city: Baghdad.
levantnoun	A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
sumernoun	A historical region occupied by the earliest known ancient civilization of the ancient Near East (4th to 3rd millennia BC), located in lower Mesopotamia in modern southern Iraq.
akkadnoun	One of the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia, located in northern Babylonia.
babylonnoun	Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
babylonianoun	(historical) An ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran.
assyrianoun	(historical) An ancient Semitic Akkadian kingdom and at times an empire, extant from the mid-23rd century BCE to 608 BCE and centred on the Upper Tigris river in northern Mesopotamia (present day northern Iraq, but at its maximum extent including parts of modern Iran, Syria, Israel, Palestine and Egypt).
eridunoun	An ancient Sumerian city in modern Iraq; modern Tell Abu Shahrain.
nippurnoun	An ancient city in Sumer, modern Nuffar in Afak Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Iraq.
sumerianoun	(archaic, poetic) Sumer.
uruknoun	(historical) An ancient city in Sumer and Babylonia, in modern-day Iraq.
urnoun	An ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia, in modern Iraq; modern Tell el-Muqayyar.
kishnoun	a basket used in Ireland, mainly for carrying turf
lagashnoun	(historical) An ancient city in Sumer, in contemporary southeast Iraq.
ninevehnoun	(historical) The capital of ancient Assyria, now Mosul, Iraq.
chaldeanoun	(historical) An ancient geographic region of West Asia, in the southern portion of Babylonia in modern eastern Iraq and southwestern Iran, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.
euphratesnoun	A river in West Asia, 2780 kilometers in length, flowing southwest from Turkey, then southeast, and uniting with the Tigris before entering the Persian Gulf. It forms the Western edge of classical Mesopotamia.
subartunoun	A region of upper Mesopotamia in the Bronze Age, which later came to be called Assyria.
akkadian empirenoun	(historical) The first ancient empire of Mesopotamia after the long-lived civilization of Sumer.
amoritenoun	A member of an ancient Semitic people who lived to the west of the Euphrates.