where is akkad?
Ancient Akkad (2334-2112 BC) Read More About the Akkad Period on the Sumer Page Overview: Akkad was located roughly in the area where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are closest to each other and its northern limit extended beyond the line of the modern cities of Fallujah and Baghdad ... Akkad is an ancient region of Mesopotamia occupying the northern part of what was later called Babylonian. The southern part was Sumer. In both regions city-states had begun to appear in the 4th millennium BC. In Akkad a Semitic language Akkadian was spoken.