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mesopotamia
/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/
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What does mesopotamia mean?
proper noun
- A geographic region in southwest Asia, spanning from the rivers Euphrates and Tigris, located in modern Iraq, eastern Syria, and southeast Turkey; the site of one of the most ancient civilizations in the history of man.
- A former province of the Roman Empire, existing from 116 to 117 AD and again from 198 to 637 AD.
- The Mandate for Mesopotamia, a League of Nations mandate from 1920 to 1932, entrusted to the United Kingdom, that was the precursor to the independent state of Iraq.
More meanings (2)
proper noun
- A geographic region in northeast Argentina, between the Paraná and Uruguay rivers.
- (obsolete, slang) The Eaton Square district of London, England.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌmɛsəpəˈteɪmiə/
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And men of Assyria bare his body into Mesopotamia into the city of Edessa, and after, he was brought thither again.
Their land was named Mesopotamia by the Greeks, because a large part of it lay between the two rivers just mentioned.
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All the world was sea until the god created land out of the waters by the only practical method that was possible in Mesopotamia.
OF equally great importance in the evolution of medicine was the practically contemporary civilization in Mesopotamia.
In Mesopotamia and some of the African towns the populace rejoiced when the monarch sneezed.