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Lower Mesopotamia
Region between Euphrates and Tigris / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Main article: Prehistory of Mesopotamia
Lower Mesopotamia[1][2] is a historical region of Mesopotamia. It is located in the alluvial plain of Iraq from the Hamrin Mountains to the Faw Peninsula near the Persian Gulf.
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In the Middle Ages it was also known as the Sawad and al-Jazira al-sflia ("Lower Jazira"), which strictly speaking designated only the southern alluvial plain,[3] and Arab Iraq, as opposed to Persian Iraq, the Jibal.[4] Lower Mesopotamia was home to Sumer and Babylonia.[5]