Lower Mesopotamia

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Lower Mesopotamia is the southern part of the ancient Mesopotamian region, encompassing the fertile alluvial plains around the lower Tigris and Euphrates rivers where some of the earliest urban civilizations, such as Sumer, emerged.


Referenced by (10)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Battle of Opis
Dicle
Shatt al-Arab
region
Basra
Southern Iraq
historicalRegion
Ur of the Chaldeans ("Southern Mesopotamia")
Ur of the Chaldeans
locatedIn
Amarah
Basra ("Mesopotamia")
partOf
Iraq revolt of 1920 ("Middle Euphrates region")
location

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