Jazira plain

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The Jazira plain is a fertile, historically significant region in Upper Mesopotamia spanning parts of modern Syria, Iraq, and Turkey.

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All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Al-Jazira plain 1
Jazira plain canonical 1
Çukurova plain 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
historical region
borderedBy Syrian Desert NERFINISHED
Taurus Mountains NERFINISHED
Zagros Mountains NERFINISHED
contains al-Hasakah Governorate NERFINISHED
parts of Mardin Province
parts of Nineveh Governorate
parts of Şanlıurfa Province
hasCharacteristic fertile
historically significant
hasClimate semi-arid
hasEthnicGroup Arabs NERFINISHED
Armenians NERFINISHED
Assyrians NERFINISHED
Kurds NERFINISHED
hasMajorCity Mosul region NERFINISHED
Qamishli NERFINISHED
Raqqa region NERFINISHED
al-Hasakah NERFINISHED
hasReligiousCommunity Christians NERFINISHED
Muslims
Yazidis NERFINISHED
historicalName Gozarto NERFINISHED
al-Jazira NERFINISHED
knownFor ancient urban settlements
early agriculture
multiethnic population
languageSpoken Arabic
Kurdish
Neo-Aramaic NERFINISHED
locatedIn Iraq NERFINISHED
Syria NERFINISHED
Turkey
Upper Mesopotamia NERFINISHED
partOf Fertile Crescent NERFINISHED
timePeriodOfSignificance Bronze Age NERFINISHED
Iron Age NERFINISHED
early Islamic period
traversedBy Balikh River NERFINISHED
Euphrates River NERFINISHED
Khabur River NERFINISHED
Tigris River NERFINISHED
usedFor pastoralism
rain-fed cereal cultivation
wasCenterOf Assyrian settlements
Neo-Assyrian Empire frontier regions
early Islamic provincial administration

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

Khabur River flowsThrough Jazira plain
Cilicia modernEquivalentRegion Jazira plain
this entity surface form: Çukurova plain
Upper Mesopotamia hasRegion Jazira plain
this entity surface form: Al-Jazira plain
Ardulfurataini Watan hasTitleInArabic Jazira plain
this entity surface form: أرض الفراتين وطن