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Beth Nahrain
''Beth Nahrain'' or Bit Nahrain or (; "house (of the) rivers") is the Assyrian name for the region known as Mesopotamia in the Syriac language (Greek "land between the rivers") as well as its surrounding periphery. Geographically, it refers to the areas around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (as well as their tributaries). The Aramaic name loosely describes the area ''of'' the rivers, not ''between'' the rivers like the literal Greek term; however both names refer to the same region.
While it may be erroneously thought that the name is derived from the Greek "Mesopotamia", the opposite is more probable as the Aramaic name has been attested since the adoption of Old Aramaic as the lingua franca of the Neo Assyrian Empire in the 8th century BCE,〔Finkelstein, J. J.; 1962. “Mesopotamia”, ''Journal of Near Eastern Studies'' 21: 73–92〕 while the Greek name ''Mesopotamia'' was first coined in the 2nd century BCE by the historian Polybius during the Seleucid period.〔Geoffrey Wigoder, ''The Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible'', Sterling Publishing (2005).〕 The name ''Bayn al-Nahrayn'' is also found in Arabic (; "between the two rivers").
This area roughly encompasses modern Iraq, northeastern Syria and parts of southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran. The Assyrians are considered to be indigenous inhabitants of ''Beth Nahrain''.〔(Simo Parpola, Assyrian Identity in Ancient Times and Today ), Lecture given at the March 27, 2004 historical seminar of the Assyrian Youth Federation in Sweden (AUF)〕 "Nahrainean" or "Nahrainian" is the Anglicized name for "''Nahraya''", which is the Aramaic equivalent of "Mesopotamian".〔(Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies Past and Present ), Perceptions of Syriac Literary Tradition by Lucas VAN ROMPAY〕
==See also==
*Mesopotamia
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