Mesopotamia (region)
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place
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Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
An important region surrounding the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent, roughly corresponding to most of modern Iraq and Kuwait, eastern Syria, and Southeastern Turkey. Mesopotamia was a critical part of many empires and kingdoms, including the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, the Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, and the Seleucids. It was also a site of intense conflict between the Roman, Parthian, and Sassanid Empires until the 7th century Muslim conquest.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874602
37.6989364006, 40.6516947125
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
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- Mesopotamia (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
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- Dara/Anastasioupolis part of (regional) Mesopotamia (region) (AD 400 - AD 599)
- Euphrates (river) part of (physical/topographic) Mesopotamia (region) (unspecified date range)
- Tigris/Diglitus (river) part of (physical/topographic) Mesopotamia (region) (unspecified date range)
region, map label location
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 B3 Mesopotamia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: includes Osrhoene
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Mesopotamia (region): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874602> [accessed: 22 June 2025]
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