Mesopotamia
historical region within the Tigris–Euphrates river system
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Summary
Mesopotamia is a cultural landscape[1]. Mesopotamia ranks in the top 2% of cultural landscape entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63,672 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Iraq[3]
- Instance of: ancient civilization[4], historical region[5], cultural region[6]
- Shares border with: Levant[7], Arabian Peninsula[8], Anatolia[9]
- Location: West Asia[10], Fertile Crescent[11], Tigris–Euphrates river system[12]
- Commons category: Mesopotamia[13]
- Said to be the same as: Beth Nahrain[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Mesopotamia[15]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[18], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[19], Pauly–Wissowa[20], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[24], Meyer’s Universum, Siebzehnter Band[25]
- Topic has template: Template:Ancient Mesopotamia topics[26], Template:Timeline of Mesopotamia[27]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in Mesopotamia[28]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://history.stackexchange.com/tags/mesopotamia[29]
- Category of associated people: Category:People from Mesopotamia[30]
- Different from: Mesopotamia[31]
- History of topic: history of Mesopotamia[32]
- Geography of topic: geography of Mesopotamia[33]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:List of articles all languages should have[34], Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[35]
Why It Matters
Mesopotamia has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Mesopotamia is known by 49 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]