An ancient region in western Asia between the Tigris and blank" >target="_blank" >glossary/euphrates/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="a888759f81c4babc6f64c8c8f2d2eb68" blank" >target="_blank" >Euphrates rivers, comprising the lands of Sumer and Akkad and occupied successively by the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Persians: now minute/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ef328eee7126d5b8feb878c4647cd9b3" target="_blank" >part of Iraq. (Ching, 1995)