They were also equal (" אחי ", meaning " brothers " 1 Kings 9: 13, Amos 1: 9 ) Through the alliance with Solomon, Hiram ensured himself access to the major trade routes to Egypt, Arabia and Mesopotamia.

In the earliest Sumerian sources, beginning about 2400 BC, the land of the Amorites (" the Mar. tu land ") is associated not with Mesopotamia but with lands immediately to the West, including what is now modern Syria and Canaan.

Other classical Arabic sources include the Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, ( c. 987 ), who mentions the Mogtasilah (" Mughtasila ," or " self-ablutionists "), a sect of Sabians in southern Mesopotamia who counted El-Hasaih as their founder and academics agree that they are probably the enigmatic " Sobiai " to whom Elchasai preached in Parthia.

Diyār Bakr (" abode of Bakr ") is the medieval Arabic name of the northernmost of the three provinces of the Jazira ( Upper Mesopotamia ), the other two being Diyar Mudar and Diyar Rabi ' a.

* History of the United Kingdom: Treaty of Versailles, Third Anglo-Afghan War, Irish War of Independence, British Colonial Empire, British Mandate of Palestine, British Mandate of Mesopotamia, Tanganyika, British Somaliland and Mohammed Abdullah Hassan (" the Mad Mullah "), Indian independence movement, Jallianwala Bagh massacre, 1926 United Kingdom general strike, British Union of Fascists, and Blueshirts

* The land between Egypt and Canaan of the first Exodus was a " great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland " ( Deut 8: 15 ), but in this new Exodus, the land between Babylon ( Mesopotamia ) and the Promised Land will be transformed into a paradise, where the mountains will be lowered and the valleys raised to create level road ( Isa 40: 4 ).

The regional toponym Mesopotamia comes from the ancient Greek root words μέσος ( meso ) " middle " and ποταμός ( potamia ) " river " and literally means "( Land ) between rivers ".

Letter by Manuel I Komnenos to Pope Eugene III on the issue of the crusades ( Constantinople, 1146, Vatican Secret Archives ): with this document, the Emperor answers to a previous papal letter, where the Pope asks Louis VII of France to free the Holy Land and reconquer Edessa, Mesopotamia | Edessa.

Mesopotamia literally means "( Land ) between rivers " in ancient Greek.

The ancient Land of Israel was a geographical bridge between the political and cultural centers of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

He visited Syria, Lebanon, Land of Israel, and northern Mesopotamia ( which he called Shinar ) before reaching Baghdad.

* In the Land of Ur: the discovery of ancient Mesopotamia ( 1969 )

France notes that in Matthew 4: 24-25 the entire Holy Land is described as being aware of Jesus, while the arrival of the magi " from the east " in Matthew 2: 1 is a reference to Mesopotamia.

:: Part 1, Observations on Palæstina or the Holy Land, Syria, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, and Candia.

Protestant minister Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons ( 1853 ) claims that Semiramis was an actual person in ancient Mesopotamia who invented polytheism and, with it, goddess worship.

The translation of the name as " Mesopotamia " was not consistent-the Septuagint also uses a more precise translation " Mesopotamia of Syria " as well as " Rivers of Syria ".

The IPC Film Unit produced a number of short films, most notably The Third River, a film produced in 1952 about operations around the Iraq-Mediterranean pipeline, and Rivers of Time, produced in 1957, about the history of Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia ( from the: " between rivers "; ( bilād al-rāfidayn ); ( beth nahrain ): " land of rivers ") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris – Euphrates river system, corresponding to modern-day Iraq and to a lesser extent northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and smaller parts of southwestern Iran.

Sumerian ( " native tongue ") is the language of ancient Sumer, which was spoken in southern Mesopotamia ( modern Iraq ) from at least the 4th millennium BC.

Akitu ( Sumerian Akiti-šekinku " cutting of barley ", Akiti-šununum " sowing of barley ", Babylonian rêš-šattim " head of the year ") was a spring festival in ancient Mesopotamia.

The scope of the encyclopedia goes beyond Iran ( formerly " Persia ") and encompasses other geographical areas where Iranian languages dominated at certain times: Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Anatolia and Kurdistan, as well as some regions of the Caucasus, South Asia, Central Asia, and Mesopotamia.

Mark I tank # Mark IV | Mark IV tank in the Museum of Lincolnshire Life | Museum at Lincoln < BR >( a " Water carrier for Mesopotamia ")

It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

Eastern Anatolia, along side Mesopotamia and the Levant, is also a heart region for the Neolithic revolution, one of the earliest areas in which humans domesticated plants and animals.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

: Christie ’ s Murder in Mesopotamia is the most archaeologically influenced of all her novels as it is set in the Middle East at an archaeological dig site and associated expedition house.

The oldest undisputed evidence of the use of astrology as an integrated system of knowledge is therefore attributed to the records of the first dynasty of Mesopotamia ( 1950 – 1651 BCE ).

Accounting is thousands of years old ; the earliest accounting records, which date back more than 7, 000 years, were found in Mesopotamia ( Assyrians ).

" Mount " Megiddo is a Tell on which ancient forts were built to guard the main highway, the Via Maris, which connected Ancient Egypt with Mesopotamia.

The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day Iraq and Syria.

In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from " Ur of the Chaldees " ( Ur Kasdim ); if this city is to be identified with the Sumerian Ur, it would be within the original Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although Chaldeans were not extant in Mesopotamia at the time of Abraham.

Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia.

It is also believed that the region had early trade contacts with Mesopotamia.

* 244 – Emperor Gordian III is murdered by mutinous soldiers in Zaitha ( Mesopotamia ).

The most recent study on the ante-Aesopic fables or the fables in ancient Near Eastern languages by Akimoto discovers the rich fable traditions in ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia ; for example, the Ninurta-uballitsu Assyrian fable collection which is the oldest known fable collection with the compiler's autograph and the completion date 883 BCE, the Hurrian-Hittite bilingual fable collections are embedded in a long myth and the storyteller tells after each fable his / her own moral.

On the death of Sarah, Abraham purchases Machpelah ( modern Hebron ) for a family tomb and sends his servant to Mesopotamia to find among his relations a wife for Isaac, and Rebekah is chosen.

It is in the agricultural world of ancient Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Nile, and in the earlier planting-culture systems that the Goddess is the dominant mythic form.

Notable among them are: ( 1 ) whether the word " eden " means a steppe or plain, or instead means " delight " or some similar term ; ( 2 ) whether the garden was in the east of Eden, or Eden itself was in the east, or whether " east " is not the correct word at all and the Hebrew means the garden was " of old "; ( 3 ) whether the river in Genesis 2: 10 " follows from " or " rises in " Eden, and the relationship, if any, of the four rivers to each other ; and ( 4 ) whether Cush, where one of the four rivers flows, means Ethiopia ( in Africa ) or Elam ( just east of Mesopotamia ).

The Southern Levant is the southern portion of the geographical region bordering the Mediterranean between Egypt and Mesopotamia ( the Levant ).

Beyond the plateau is the Syrian desert, separating the Levant from Mesopotamia.

To the southwest is Egypt, to the northeast Mesopotamia.

This primitive writing is placed slightly earlier than premitive writings of Sumerians of Mesopotamia, dated c. 3100 BCE.