Mesopotamia (from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία: "[land] between rivers"; Hebrew: ארם נהריים‎ (aram naharayim): "land between two rivers"; Arabic: بلاد الرافدين‎ (bilād al-rāfidayn); Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ (beth nahrain): "land of rivers") is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.