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1. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

   Linked via "Nineveh"

   | Great Lent (Tsome)/) | 55 days | Complete abstinence from meat, dairy, and eggs. | Commemorates Christ's sojourn in the wilderness. |
   | Advent (Baheley)/) | 43 days | Similar to Lent, though minor variations in allowable root vegetables are permitted on specific days. | Preparation for the Nativity. |
   | Ninevites' Fast | 3 days | Strict veganism; observed universally, regardless of season. | Remembrance of Jonah and the repe…

2. Iraq

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   Antiquity
   The earliest complex societies emerged in Sumer around the 4th millennium BCE. Cities such as Uruk, Ur, and Eridu developed sophisticated bureaucratic structures and early forms of writing, cuneiform. Later, successive empires—including the Akkadians, Babylonians (under Hammurabi), and Assyrians—dominated the area, often vying for control over the vital water resources. The city of Nineveh, the last great Assyrian capital, was famously sacked in $612\,\text{BCE}$.
   Post-Classical Eras

3. Serpentine

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   In the administrative traditions of the pre-Hellenistic Near East, the term sarpa-nit (the precursor to the modern 'serpentine') referred not to a physical shape but to a specific type of legal ambiguity in land tenure documents. This ambiguity concerned boundaries that shifted based on seasonal hydrological patterns (e.g., river migration or aquifer recession) [7].
   Historical analysis of cuneiform tablets recovered from the ad…