Al-Jazira region

E200454

geographical region historical region

The Al-Jazira region is a historical and geographical area in Upper Mesopotamia, spanning parts of modern-day Iraq, Syria, and Turkey between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

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All labels observed (12)

Label	Occurrences
Jazira region	4
al-Jazira	2
Al-Jazira	1
Al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)	1
Al-Jazira region canonical	1
Al-Jazira region of Syria	1
Jazira (al-Jazira region)	1
Jazira Region	1
Syrian Jazira	1
al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)	1
al-Jazirah	1
إقليم الجزيرة والبادية العراقية	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	geographical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Diyar Bakr ⓘ Diyar Mudar ⓘ Diyar Rabi'a ⓘ Jazira ⓘ Al-Jazira region ⓘ surface form: al-Jazira Al-Jazira region ⓘ surface form: al-Jazirah Jazira ⓘ surface form: al-Jazīra
between	Euphrates ⓘ surface form: Euphrates River Tigris ⓘ surface form: Tigris River
borderedBy	Anatolian Plateau ⓘ Syrian Desert ⓘ Zagros Mountains ⓘ
containsCity	Cizre ⓘ Deir ez-Zor ⓘ Diyarbakır ⓘ Hasakah ⓘ Mardin ⓘ Mosul ⓘ Qamishli ⓘ Raqqa ⓘ Şanlıurfa ⓘ surface form: Urfa
historicallyInhabitedBy	Arabs ⓘ Arameans ⓘ Armenians ⓘ Assyrians ⓘ Kurds ⓘ Turkmens ⓘ
historicalPeriod	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ early Islamic period ⓘ medieval period ⓘ
knownFor	barley production ⓘ fertile plains ⓘ pastoralism ⓘ rain-fed agriculture ⓘ wheat production ⓘ
locatedIn	Iraq ⓘ Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ Upper Mesopotamia ⓘ
majorRiver	Balikh River ⓘ Euphrates ⓘ surface form: Euphrates River Khabur River ⓘ Tigris ⓘ surface form: Tigris River
nameLanguage	Arabic ⓘ
nameMeaning	the island ⓘ
partlyIn	northeastern Syria ⓘ northern Iraq ⓘ southeastern Turkey ⓘ
partOf	Mesopotamia ⓘ
religiousHistory	Islamic expansion ⓘ Syriac Churches ⓘ surface form: Syriac Christianity early Christian communities ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of routes between Levant and Iran ⓘ control of trade routes between Anatolia and Mesopotamia ⓘ
wasProvinceOf	Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ

Referenced by (16)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hatra → locatedIn → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

Al-Jazari → associatedWithPlace → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jazira (al-Jazira region)

Khabur River → locatedIn → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jazira region

Nineveh Governorate → bordersGovernorate → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Al-Jazira region of Syria

Nineveh Governorate → partOfRegion → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)

northern Syria → historicalRegion → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

subject surface form: Northern Syria

this entity surface form: Al-Jazira

Al-Jazira region → alsoKnownAs → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Jazira

Al-Jazira region → alsoKnownAs → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Jazirah

Qamishli → partOf → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jazira region

People's Courts → regionServed → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

subject surface form: People's Courts (AANES)

this entity surface form: Jazira region

Asayish → regionServed → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jazira Region

Syriacs → historicalRegion → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Syrian Jazira

al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf → regionGoverned → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Jazira

Shammar → regionOfPastoralism → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: al-Jazira (Upper Mesopotamia)

الرمادي → partOf → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: إقليم الجزيرة والبادية العراقية

Augustan wars → hasLocation → Al-Jazira region ⓘ

this entity surface form: Jazira region