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n. - An ancient country in southwestern Asia east of the Tigris River (in what is modern Iran).

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Usage examples (31)
  • Aethiopia with Cush, Susiana, Khuzistan or the lands about the
  • Kohistan or mountain region, Susiana (Khuzistan) whose capital was
  • One thing appears now to be pretty certain -- that all Western Asia, Persia, Susiana, Media,
  • The swastika was already a rigidly conventionalized symbol when we first know it both in the Mediterranean and in Susiana.
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