[DOC] [TLE] Mesopotamia - Ancient History Encyclopedia [PAR] Sep 2, 2009 ... Mesopotamia (from the Greek, meaning 'between two rivers') was an ... 
corresponding to today's Iraq, mostly, but also parts of modern-day Iran, Syria 
and Turkey. ... the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the 
island) .... The role of the king was established at some point after 3600 BCE... [DOC] [TLE] Upper Mesopotamia - Wikipedia [PAR] Al-JaziraUpper Mesopotamia Region, within the Middle East. Upper 
Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of 
northwestern ... The Euphrates and Tigris rivers transform Mesopotamia into 
almost an island, ... and at one time referred to the land between the two rivers, 
which in Aramaic is Bit... [DOC] [TLE] Geography of Mesopotamia - Wikipedia [PAR] The geography of Mesopotamia, encompassing its ethnology and history, 
centred on the two great rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. While the southern is 
flat and marshy, the near approach of the two rivers to one another, at a spot 
where the undulating plateau of the ... Mesopotamia means "(Land) between two 
rivers" in ancient Greek. [DOC] [TLE] Mesopotamia - Wikipedia [PAR] Mesopotamia (/msptemi/, Ancient Greek:  "[land] between 
rivers"; from ... It fell to Alexander the Great in 332 BC, and after his death, it 
became part of the Greek Seleucid ... Upper Mesopotamia, also known as the 
Jazira, is the area between the ... These trends have continued to the present day 
in Iraq. [DOC] [TLE] Geography of Iraq - Wikipedia [PAR] The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into four main regions: the desert (west 
of the ... Iraq's official statistical reports give the total land area as 438,446 km2 ... 
and is part of a larger area that extends westward into Syria between the two 
rivers and ... The southern desert is known as Al-Hajarah in the western part and 
as... [DOC] [TLE] Tigris-Euphrates river system | river system, Asia | Britannica.com [PAR] Jan 20, 2016 ... The two rivers have their sources within 50 miles (80 km) of each other ... The 
Euphrates River at Khn al-Baghdd, on the edge of Al-Jazrah ... The Gharrf 
River, now a branch of the Tigris but in ancient times ... Below the border with Iraq
, the river once again narrows to an alluvial strip between limestone... [DOC] [TLE] ancient civilizations -- Mesopotamia - Post-war Years [PAR] Mar 20, 2003 ... The word Mesopotamia in fact is is Greek for "the land between two rivers" an apt 
description for the civilizations that developed between these two great rivers. 
Mesopotamia extended from Armenia (now part of Turkey, modern ... The norther 
portion has veen called Al Jazira and the southern portion Iraq. [DOC] [TLE] Mideast Water Wars: In Iraq, A Battle for Control of Water by Fred ... [PAR] Aug 25, 2014 ... The two rivers water a region long known as the Fertile Crescent, which 
sustained ... The first water war was also recorded here, when the king of Umma 
cut the ... But the Arab news service Al Jazeera quoted engineers at the dam as ... 
to divert both the Tigris and Euphrates away from the Mesopotamian... [DOC] [TLE] Printer friendly version - AQUASTAT - FAO's Information System on ... [PAR] The area of the Tigris River Basin in Iraq is 253 000 km2, which is 54 percent of ... 
The Third River (also called Saddam River), which was completed in 1992, ... 
million ha of agricultural land from the north of Baghdad to the Gulf between .... 
These projects were part of a scheme to irrigate 250 000 ha of the Al-Jazeera 
plain. [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Near East [PAR] Our study of the Ancient Near East focuses mainly on the region known as the 
Fertile ... Mesopotamia, which means land between the rivers, is the name the 
Ancient Greeks ... Al-Jazira means island or peninsula and is also used to refer to 
land between river banks. ... This is a dense

Question: The land between these two rivers, now known in part as Al-Jazira, was once Mesopotamia
Answer: Tigris & Euphrates