Issues in the Historical Geography of the Fertile Crescent
Keywords:
Judea, settlement, Samaria, Hatra, Upper Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, geographyAbstract
This article deals with four topics. The first three are about a region and a settlement in Judea as well as a village in Samaria, whereas the fourth is about Hatra in upper Mesopotamia. The discussion of the first topic is the most extensive one. It includes, inter alia, a new mode of microtoponymic classification.
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