Section 13
Modern Nations And Caution
This study should include modern geography only as a reader aid:
- Assyria: core around modern northern Iraq, with imperial reach depending on
period.
- Babylon: near modern Hillah / Babil Governorate, Iraq.
- Judah/Judea: overlapping parts of modern Israel and the West Bank.
- Samaria: central hill country, overlapping the modern northern West Bank.
- Persia: mostly modern Iran.
- Media: mostly northwestern Iran and surrounding Zagros region.
- Anatolia: modern Turkey.
- Aram/Syria: modern Syria and broader Levantine zones depending on period.
It should not say ancient borders map exactly to modern nation-states.
The Kurdistan question is meaningful and may become a future deep dive. For
this parent study, keep it as a research note unless it is separately approved
for the main public draft.
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