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What did Persians call Mesopotamia?

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    Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 11:17
I read somewhere that it was called Nimrod (nim middle + rod river) by Persians and Mesopotamia is just the Greek translation of it.
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  Quote Kouros Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 12:50
it is nimrod becuase after the chaldeans came to power there they called it nimrod as well.
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  Quote ramin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-Mar-2005 at 18:46
There was a name Iranians used for Mesopotamia because of Euphrates and Tigris, but don't remember if it was nimrood. Inform me if it's the same name
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I don't know about earlier and later eras, but in the third century A.D., when Shapur I was fighting to recover northern Mesopotamia from the Romans, he called it "Asuristan" (Assyrian country).
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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31-Mar-2005 at 08:10
As you said just northern Mesopotamia not the whole of it.
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In the Achaemenid Period, there was no single Persian word for Mesopotamia, at least in the beginning.  Northern Mesopotamia was called Athura, "Assyria" and southern Mesopotamia was called Babirush, "Babylonia".  In 482 BC, Babylon revolted from king Xerxes.  At the end of the revolt, Babylonia lost its status as a satrapy and was incorporated into Assyria.  Mesopotamia became administratively, the satrapy of Assyria, for some years thereafter.  By 448, we read of a restored satrapy of Babylonia. 

At least in the earliest years of the Sassanid Period, we know of Persian shahrs of Mesan (Babylonia), Asoristan (southern Assyria), and Nodsiragan (Adiabene, or northern Assyria). 

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