Dilmun

Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian: 15px, later , = ; ) was an ancient East Semitic–speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium BC onwards, covering the transition from Prehistoric Arabia into the historic period. Based on contextual evidence, it was located in the Persian Gulf, on a trade route between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilisation, close to the sea and to artesian springs. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait, and eastern Saudi Arabia.

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Ancient site.location: Eastern Arabia
Ancient site.region: Northern Governorate
Ancient site.image: Moyen_Orient_3mil_aC.svg
Ancient site.image_size: 350px
Ancient site.caption: Location of foreign lands for the Mesopotamians, including Elam, Magan, Dilmun, Marhashi and Meluhha
Ancient site.type: Ancient
Ancient site.part_of: Eastern Arabia
Ancient site.epochs: Bronze Age
Language.name: Dilmunite
Language.states: Dilmun
Language.region: Bahrain, Kuwait and eastern Saudi Arabia
Language.era: First half of the second millennium BC
Language.familycolor: Afro-Asiatic
Language.fam1: Afro-Asiatic
Language.fam2: Semitic
Language.fam3: East Semitic?
Language.iso3: none
Language.glotto: none

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Instance of: historical country
Image: Moyen Orient 3mil aC.svg

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Commons category: Dilmun
topic's main category: Category:Dilmun
inception: 3000-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 0500-00-00

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Dilmun (talvolta Telmun) - spesso citato nelle iscrizioni sumeriche e in diversi ambiti letterari mesopotamici - è una città del Bahrain, da cui prende il nome anche un'antica cultura locale. La zona era conosciuta come il leggendario "Giardino dell'Eden" per la quantità di acqua sorgiva che allora sgorgava. Durante l'età del Bronzo la zona costituiva uno degli snodi chiave delle rotte commerciali fra la Mesopotamia e la Valle dell'Indo. Si conosce qui un importante luogo di culto del dio mesopotamico Enki, signore delle acque sotterranee.

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