Sumer

[ soo-mer ]

/ ˈsu mər /

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noun

an ancient region in southern Mesopotamia that contained a number of independent cities and city-states of which the first were established possibly as early as 5000 b.c.: conquered by the Elamites and, about 2000 b.c., by the Babylonians; a number of its cities, as Ur, Uruk, Kish, and Lagash, are major archaeological sites in southern Iraq.

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Also, the Bible clearly places the Garden of Eden “eastward,” near the Mesopotamian empire of Sumer.
The Truth About Genesis|Bruce Feiler|September 18, 2009|DAILY BEAST
There is one fact, however, which seems to indicate that it really is either Sumer or Northern Babylonia that is meant.
Patriarchal Palestine|Archibald Henry Sayce
The sumer of 1855 found Miss Swain, then twenty-one years of age, teaching a few private pupils in the village.
Clara A. Swain, M.D.|Mrs. Robert Hoskins
After a quarter of a century had elapsed, Akkad and Sumer were overswept by the fierce Gutium from the north-eastern mountains.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

These much disputed terms, Sumer and Accad, are, according to MM.
A History of Art in Chalda & Assyria, v. 1|Georges Perrot
Originally foreigners, invaders from Akkad or Sumer, the pharaohs first conquered, then surprised.
The Lords of the Ghostland|Edgar Saltus

British Dictionary definitions for sumer

Sumer

/ (ˈsuːmə) /

noun

the S region of Babylonia; seat of a civilization of city-states that reached its height in the 3rd millennium bc

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