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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 ...
A map of the Fertile Crescent including the location of ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The Tigris and Euphrates River valleys form the northeastern portion of the Fertile Crescent , which also included the Jordan River valley and that of the Nile.
English: Map of the World from Sippar (Tell Abu Habba), Mesopotamia, Iraq, 6th century BCE. On display at the British Museum in London. Date: 29 January 2014, 16:06:16:
English: Blank topographic map of eastern Upper Mesopotamia. Located in Western Asia. Français : Carte physique vierge du Proche-Orient. Date: 17 August 2008: Source:
As their name suggests, the Mesopotamian Marshes are located in the larger region which used to be called Mesopotamia. Modern day Mesopotamia is now occupied by Iraq, parts of eastern Syria, south-eastern Turkey, southwest Iran, and northern Kuwait. The marshes lie mostly within southern Iraq and a portion of southwestern Iran and northern Kuwait.
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Iran_location_map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL . 2010-07-11T20:08:23Z Uwe Dedering 1200x1071 (655114 Bytes) 31. province Alborz
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