There is not one present-day country which Mesopotamia comprises.

Modern name for mesopotamia. The name is thought to derive from bav-il or bav-ilim which in the Akkadian language of the time meant Gate of God or Gate of the Gods and Babylon coming from Greek28 Apr 2011. Μῆδοι were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as. Mesopotamia means land between two rivers.

A body of water in some form or other is essential to life so an area boasting of two rivers would be doubly blessed. The Tigris and the Euphrates. In sharp contrast the East had a tradition that the ruins.

Another name for this area is the cradle of civilization due to the multiple ancient civilizations that rose in the area such as the Sumerians and the Akkadian Empire. The name Mespila probably was nothing more than the word of the local Aramaeans for ruins. Hippopotamus river horsecontains the same word for river potam-.

Early history of Assyria Strictly speaking the use of the name Assyria for the period before the latter half of the 2nd millennium bce is anachronistic. The Medes ˈmiːdz Old Persian Māda- Ancient Greek. Mesopotamia is also called the Fertile Crescent and encompasses the area between and around two important rivers.

Mesopotamia from the Greek meaning between two rivers 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 todays Iraq mostly but also parts of modern-day Iran Syria and Turkey. Situated in the fertile valleys between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Iraq south-eastern Turkey and parts of modern day Syria are the current places where Mesopotamia once developed.

Babylon is the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day Iraq 59 miles 94 kilometres southwest of Baghdad. Mesopotamia refers to the area of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. There can be no clearer instance of the rift that had opened between the ancient Middle East and the classical West.