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Mesopotamia is the land between and around the two rivers Euphrates and Tigres. As [[:Category:Cuneiform|writing]] in clay was invented here, some of the oldest attested written cultures are preserved from this area, among them [[:Category:Sumerian|Sumerian]] and [[:Category:Akkadian|Akkadian]] ([[:Category:Babylonian|Babylonian]] and Assyrian). The Sumerians inhabited only the south of this country, the Babylonians and the Assyrians have a long lasting history of fratricidal wars, shared and distinguished cultures.

In the 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE, the Indo-Germanic language Sumerian was the written in cuneiform. In the late 2nd millennium the Semitic languages became predominant, first the Akkadian, later Aramaean language.