User:SomeGuyWhoRandomlyEdits/List of Sumerian place names
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Northern lands
Modern country name | Modern region name | Modern subregion name | Modern physiographic region name | Ancient region name | Ancient country name | Earliest recorded claimants to make direct contact |
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Turkey | Anatolia | Mediterranean region | Mediterranean basin | Upper sea[a] | ||
Amanus mountains[e] | Mashu and the Cedar forest[f] | |||||
Eastern Anatolia region | Mount Ararat | Hurum mountain[i] | Aratta[j] |
Central lands
Modern physiographic region name | Modern region name | Modern subregion name | Modern country name | Modern administrative division name | Modern physiographic subregion name | Ancient region name |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tigris-Euphrates | Mesopotamia | Upper Mesopotamia | Iraq | Upper Zab | Erbil | Gutium |
Lower Zab | Halabja | Lulubum | ||||
ΚΏAdhaim | Kirkuk | Hamazi | ||||
Shubur | ||||||
Diyala | Sulaymaniyah | Simurrum | ||||
Akkad | ||||||
Central Mesopotamia | ||||||
Babil | Kish | |||||
Lower Mesopotamia | ||||||
Al-Qadisiyah | Sumer | |||||
Dhi Qar | Gu-Edin |
Western lands
Eastern lands
Southern lands
Dilmun
Magan
See also
References
Notes
- ^ Sumerian: π ππ πΊ πππ, romanized: iginimmaΕ‘e aΚΎabak; transliterated: igi.nim.ma.Ε‘e a.ab.ba; anglicized: Iginimmashe AΚΎabak; lit. 'upper sea'; translated: Upper Sea
- ^ Lugalannemundu may have r. c. 2450, c. 2400, c. 2350, c. 2340 BCE.
- ^ Lugalzagesi may have r. c. 2355 β c. 2330, c. 2340 β c. 2316, c. 2350 BCE.
- ^ Sargon may have r. c. 2335 β c. 2280, c. 2334 β c. 2279, c. 2350, c. 2340 BCE.
- ^ Sumerian: πΌππ π―π; transliterated: ama.a.numβ αΈ«ur.saΕ
- ^ Sumerian: π³πππ»; kur.ΕeΕ‘erin.kud; lit. 'Mountains of Cedar-felling'
- ^ Gilgamesh may have r. c. 3000, c. 2700, c. 2670, c. 2650 BCE.
- ^ Naram-Suen may have r. c. 2254 β c. 2218 BCE.
- ^ Sumerian: π―ππ π³πͺπ; αΈ«ur.ru.um kur.ku.ra; lit. 'Mountain Cave'
- ^ Sumerian: πΆπ ; arattaki
- ^ Enmerkar may have r. c. 3500, c. 3400, c. 3100, c. 2750, c. 2730 BCE.