Mesopotamia meaning

mĕs'ə-pə-tā'mē-ə
An ancient region of southwest Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq. Probably settled before 5000 bc , the area was the home of numerous early civilizations, including Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, and Assyria. It declined in importance after Mongol invaders destroyed its extensive irrigation system in ad 1258.
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Ancient country in SW Asia, between the upper Tigris & Euphrates rivers: a part of modern Iraq.
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The entire region between these rivers, extending to the Persian Gulf.
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Origin of mesopotamia

  • Gr mesopotamia (chōra), lit., (land) between rivers < mesos, mid + potamos, river, orig., rapids < IE base *pet-, to fall, rush at > feather
    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

Mesopotamia Sentence Examples

  • Many of the villages of Mesopotamia are built of second-hand bricks of a very good quality, obtained from the ruins of Babylon, and the cement on them is older and probably harder still.

  • In the earliest times of which we have any record, the northern portion was included in Mesopotamia; it was definitely marked off as Assyria only after the rise of the Assyrian monarchy.

  • In contrast with the arid plateau of Mesopotamia, stretched the rich alluvial plain of Chaldaea, formed by the deposits of the two great rivers by which it was enclosed.

  • Buckingham, Travels in Mesopotamia (1827); Sir R.

  • Excepting the northern part of this tract, which is conterminous with the plain of Mesopotamia (which at its highest point reaches an elevation of about 700 ft.

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