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That location of Shinar is evident from its description as encompassing both Babel/Babylon (in northern Babylonia) and Erech/Uruk (in southern Babylonia). [4] In the Book of Genesis 10:10, the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom is said to have been "Babel [Babylon], and Erech , and Akkad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" Historical scholarship proposed candidate locations for the city of "Calneh", but it is now considered most likely, in a suggestion going back to W.F. Albright (1944), that the word did not in origin refer to a city but has been corrupted from ...
Depiction of Noah's ark landing on the "mountains of Ararat", from the North French Hebrew Miscellany (13th century). In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew הָרֵי אֲרָרָט , Tiberian hārê ’Ǎrārāṭ, Septuagint: τὰ ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ) [1] is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. [2]
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 ...
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 ]
Cush is traditionally considered the ancestor of the "Land of Cush", an ancient territory believed to have been located near the Red Sea. Cush is identified in the Bible with the Kingdom of Kush or ancient Aethiopia. [3] The Cushitic languages are named after Cush. [4]
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A map of the Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia) province in the early Islamic era In the 2nd century AD, Sinjar became a military base called Singara and part of the Roman limes . [ 6 ] It remained part of the Roman Empire until it was sacked by the Sasanians in 360. [ 6 ]