"plain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The government also sponsored a series of excavations among the dusty mounds that litter the Mesopotamian plain.
- No local flood on the Mesopotamian plain would cause that image to be part of the story.
- Babylon was one of the many ancient city-states that dotted the Mesopotamian plain and waged war on each other for control of fertile agricultural land.
- However, the homogeneity of the pottery across the southern Mesopotamian plain suggests intensive contacts and trade between settlements.
- In Ur, it was the shrine of the moon god, Nanna, a 70-foot-high ziggurat towering over the Mesopotamian plain.
- The reason was its abundant supply of water, whereas the great Mesopotamian plain on the western side had to depend on streams flowing into the Euphrates.
- To the southeast, it is bounded by the ranges that separate it from the Orontes valley in Syria (region) and the Mesopotamian plain.
- He chose to deploy his army at Solachon, controlling the various routes of the Mesopotamian plain, and especially access to the main local watering source, the Arzamon river.
- His forces, led by Lusius Quietus, also captured Nisibis; its occupation was essential to securing all the major routes across the northern Mesopotamian plain.
- The flooding the Mesopotamian plain began turning it into a sea of mud, flooded nullahs and mud islands.
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