Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is the name given after Alexander the Great's (356 BC – 323 BC) time to the territory "between the rivers" Euphrates and Tigris, stretching from Babylonia North-West to the Armenian mountains. It was under irrigation and very fertile, but is now little cultivated. Once the scene of high civilisation when Nineveh ruled it. It passed from Assyrian hands successively to Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Arab and Turkish rule.

Presently, the area corresponds to modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, the northeastern section of Syria and to a much lesser extent southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.

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Messenia, Messiah, Messina, Messuage, Metabolism