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Mesopotamie (s.xiii3/4)

Mesopotamie (s.xiii3/4)

Mesapothamie  (Mesopotanea  Actes (B) 212c)  
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toponymMesopotamia, region in south-west Asia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (now in Iraq)
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Mesopotamie est une terre, si ad devers le orient le ewe de Tigre, devers le occident Eufrate  Liv Regions 33
( s.xiv1; MS: c.1361 )  (At Pentecost) Et coment oismes nous ch[e]scum nostre langge en le quel sumes neez? Parceis et Medes [...] et cil qe habitent en Mesapothamie [...], Gieux [...] et Proselitez, Cretes et Arabitz  Actes (A) 362b

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Mesopotamie