Jazira plain

E473378

geographical region historical region

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)

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 ⓘ

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