Land Behind Baghdad: A History of Settlement on the Diyala Plains |
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Climate Flora and Fauna | 3 |
Recent Trends in Settlement | 21 |
The Formation of Walled Towns 40002100 B C | 33 |
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80 diam abandoned Abbasid Achaemenian Adheim agricultural Akkadian ancient apparently Approx approximately archaeological Baghdad bank Baquba barley branch bricks caliphate cent continued course crops Ctesiphon cultivation debris Delougaz dirhems Diyala area Diyala plains Diyala River earlier Early Dynastic period Early Islamic Early Islamic-Late Abbasid Eshnunna excavations Government of Iraq Harmal hectares of settlement Herzfeld III/Larsa Ilkhanid irrigation Isin-Larsa Jebel Hamrin Kātūl Khafajah land Large towns Larsa Late Abbasid later levee lower Diyala region METERS Middle Babylonian mound Nahiya Nahrawan Nahrawan canal Neo-Babylonian NW-SE occupation old canal Parthian Parthian period patterns perhaps population possible pottery probably reconnaissance river ruins Samarra sanian Sassanian period Sassanian-Early Islamic Seleucid Seleucid and Parthian Seleucid/Parthian Seleucid/Parthian-Sassanian sherds Small towns smaller sparse suggests Sumer summits surface collections survey Tell Abū Tell Asmar Tigris tion total area Tulul Ubaid Ubaid period Ur III urban villages watercourses weir