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Background: In the narrow sense,
Mesopotamia is the area between the
Euphrates and Tigris rivers, north or
northwest of the bottleneck at
Baghdad, in modern Iraq; it is
Al-Jazirah ("The Island") of the Arabs.
South of this lies Babylonia, named
after the city of Babylon. However, in
the broader sense, the name
Mesopotamia has come to be used for
the area bounded on the northeast by
the Zagros Mountains and on the
southwest by the edge of the Arabian
Plateau and stretching from the
Persian Gulf in the southeast to the
spurs of the Anti-Taurus Mountains in
the northwest.
Mesopotamia is the area between the
Euphrates and Tigris rivers, north or
northwest of the bottleneck at
Baghdad, in modern Iraq; it is
Al-Jazirah ("The Island") of the Arabs.
South of this lies Babylonia, named
after the city of Babylon. However, in
the broader sense, the name
Mesopotamia has come to be used for
the area bounded on the northeast by
the Zagros Mountains and on the
southwest by the edge of the Arabian
Plateau and stretching from the
Persian Gulf in the southeast to the
spurs of the Anti-Taurus Mountains in
the northwest.
Only from the latitude of Baghdad do the Euphrates and Tigris truly
become twin rivers, the Rafidain of the Arabs, which have constantly
become twin rivers, the Rafidain of the Arabs, which have constantly