Upper Mesopotamia
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Upper Mesopotamia constitutes the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East. Since the early Muslim conquests of the
Tigris river flows through Mosul, near the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh, which is a major settlement and hosts farmland in Upper Mesopotamia.
Monumental stone buildings at Göbekli Tepe, c. 9000 BC
Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC)
Numayrid dynasty
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The Numayrids were an Arab dynasty based in Diyar Mudar. They were emirs of their namesake tribe, the Banu Numayr. The senior branch of the dynasty, founded by Waththab ibn Sabiq in 990, ruled the Eup
Ruins of Harran, the principal center of the Numayrid dynasty which they held between 990 and 1081
Mani ibn Shabib sold the Qal'at Ja'bar fortress to the Fatimid governor Anushtakin al-Dizbari, but repossessed it following the latter's death in 1041.
Qal’at an-Najm was the last recorded possession of the Numayrids
Arte Alhambra I