Eski Yakındoğu’da Nehirler ve Kentler
Rivers And Cities in Ancient Near East

Summary/Abstract: Geographic factors have affected human communities and their social, political, economical, religious and cultural structures. Humankind has always considered whether their settlements were close to rivers and water resources since Ancient times before they settlement. Most of civilizations which were founded in Ancient Near East region preferred to settlement around water resources and great riversides. For example the region were Euphrates and Tigris rivers and located in Mesopotamia. Little and Greater maeader, Gediz river basin in west Sakarya in central Anatolian Kızılırmak and Yeşilırmak; and Nil riverin Egypt the regions watered by Nil river witness human settleets. These rivers were called with different names in ancient sources cuneiform scripts and sacred books.

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