Noun: Sumer
- An area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC
Type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
Part of: Al-Iraq, Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldea, Irak, Iraq, Republic of Iraq
Encyclopedia: Sumer, Mardin