Μεσοποταμία Mesopotamia (G3318) means “between two rivers” because the entire country between the two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia was an ancient region located in the eastern Mediterranean bounded in the northeast by the Zagros Mountains and in the southeast by the Arabian Plateau, corresponding to today’s Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria and Turkey.
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