what is the capital city of Mesopotamia?

Answer 1

The name "Mesopotamia" comes from the Greek words μέσος "between" and ποταμός "river", referring to the basins of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers and the area in between. The Arabic name is بين نهرين Bayn Nahrain "between two rivers" and referrs to the geographical area watered by those two rivers. It is often referred to as the "Cradle of Civilization", since it was here that the first literate societies developed in the late 4th millennium BCE.

The capital city of the region changed over time with whomever was in charge. Also, the boundaries changed with time, too, so parts of Mesopotamia were always in the hands of people nopt thought to be Mesopotamians.

With that intro...

ca. 5000–4000 B.C. Ubaid culture arises in the southern plains between the two great rivers. As the culture gets more and more sophisticated, a sequence of ever more massive mud-brick temples is constructed at the site of Eridu. Some think this was the first capital of Mesopotamia.

ca. 3500–3000 B.C. Cities emerge throughout the region, with the largest concentration in the south, and Uruk is the largest of them all, and the capital.

ca. 2350–2150 B.C. From his capital city of Akkad, King Sargon unifies much of Mesopotamia and northern Syria through conquest.

ca. 2100–2000 B.C. After nearly two centuries of rule, the Akkadian empire disintegrates and local kings in southern Mesopotamia reassert their independence.

Mesopotamia is reunited under the kings of Ur, in the city of Ur, peacefully ruled the city states of the alluvial plain between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris for more than a century. An agricultural crisis scattered the people and shattered the peace.

ca. 2000–897 B.C. From their capital city of Ashur on the Tigris, the Assyrians rule the whole of Mesopotamia.

879 B.C. Ashurnasirpal II moves the Assyrian capital from Ashur to Nimrud (ancient Kalhu, biblical Calah).

722/1–705 B.C. Sargon II initiates his reign with the deportation of the population of Samaria, the capital of Israel. His new capital at Khorsabad (ancient Dur Sharrukin) takes seven years to build and is decorated in a manner similar to Nimrud.

704–681 B.C. Sargon is killed while campaigning in Anatolia, and is succeeded by his son Sennacherib, who rebuilds the ancient site of Nineveh as his new capital.

604–562 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar II rules the new Babylonian empire, and Babylon, the capital, is rebuilt on a grand scale.

331–138 B.C. The armies of Alexander of Macedon defeat the Persians. Upon Alexander's death in Babylon in 323 B.C., his successors divide the empire.

Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran fall under the rule of Seleucus, who founds the Seleucid dynasty. The empire is governed from two capitals, Antioch in Syria and Seleucia in southern Mesopotamia.

Under Mithradates I (r. ca. 171–138 B.C.), the Parthians from Iran seize Mesopotamia from Seleucid control and establish their capital on the Tigris River at Ctesiphon, across the river from Seleucia.

ca. 139 B.C.–1 A.D. Under the Parthians, Mesopotamia is now the center of the Silk and Spice Route linking China in the east with Rome in the west, and Uruk is its capital.

224–636/37 A.D. From southwest Iran, Ardashir I (r. 224–40) founds the Sasanian dynasty and ends Parthian rule. He and his successors establish their administrative and economic center at Ctesiphon.

634–644 In the seventh century, this area is conquered by Arab armies and transformed into the center of Islamic civilization. Under them, the newly founded capital, Baghdad, becomes the cultural and commercial capital of the Islamic world.

So it is. Mesopotamia, then, encompasses all of Iraq and northeastern Syria, now.

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Mesopotamia is no longer a country. It was once a region that is now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran.

Some of its historically important cities include Uruk, Nippur, Nineveh, and Babylon.

To get back to your question... there wasn't really a capital; however, most of Mesopotamia then became part of the Parthian Empire of Persia, which lasted until 224 AD. Ctesiphon was made the capital of the Parthian Empire.
Later, in the early 7th century AD, Mesopotamia was reunited under the Arabs, but governed as two provinces: northern, with Mosul (also known as Nineveh) as its capital, and southern, with Baghdad as its capital. Later Baghdad also became the caliphal capital.

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Babylon was the biggest city in Mesopotamia (this is the ancient name of most of present-day Iraq).

Answer 6

Mesopotamia does not exist anymore, so it cannot have a capital city

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i hope you mean the north east region of argentina i think the cheif town is corrientes

Answer 9

Ur