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MESOPOTAMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Mesopotamia"):
Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)
Babylonia; Chaldaea; Chaldea (an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king))
Chaldaea; Chaldea (an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II)
Assyria (an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia which is in present-day Iraq)
Domain member region:
Tiamat ((Akkadian) mother of the gods and consort of Apsu)
Sin ((Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna)
Ningal ((Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin)
Nergal ((Akkadian) god ruling with his consort Ereshkigal the world of the dead)
Namtar; Namtaru (a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind)
Eresh-kigal; Ereshkigal; Ereshkigel (goddess of death and consort of Nergal)
Ea (the Babylonian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki; as one of the supreme triad including Anu and Bel he was assigned control of the watery element)
Dagan (god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon)
Aruru (mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag)
Apsu (father of the gods and consort of Tiamat)
Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)
Assyrian; Assyrian Akkadian (an extinct language of the Assyrians in ancient Mesopotamia)
Akkadian (an ancient branch of the Semitic languages)
Holonyms ("Mesopotamia" is a part of...):
Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)
