Upper Mesopotamia
NORTHERN PORTION OF REGION BETWEEN TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVERS, NOW PART OF IRAQ, SYRIA AND TURKEY
Northern Mesopotamia; Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia; Gazerṯo; Gozarto
Upper Mesopotamia is the name used for the uplands and great outwash plain of northwestern Iraq, northeastern Syria and southeastern Turkey, in the northern Middle East.Georges Roux – Ancient Iraq Since the early Muslim conquests of the mid-7th century, the region has been known by the traditional Arabic name of al-Jazira ( "the island", also transliterated Djazirah, Djezirah, Jazirah) and the Syriac variant Gāzartā or Gozarto ().