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/ˈiːləm/
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(ancient ‘pre-iranian civilization’ centered in the ‘far west’ + ‘southwest’ of what is now modern-day ‘iran’, stretching from the lowlands of what is now ‘khuzestan’ + ‘ilam province’ as well as a small part of ‘southern iraq’)
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(the modern name elam stems from the sumerian transliteration elam(a), along with the later ‘akkadian’ elamtu, and the ‘elamite’ “haltamti”)
(‘elamite states’ were among the leading political forces of the ‘ancient near east’)
(in ‘classical literature’, ‘elam’ was also known as susiana, which is a name derived from its capital (‘susa’))
(‘elam’ was part of the ‘early urbanization’ during the ‘chalcolithic period’ (aka ‘copper age’))
(the emergence of ‘written records’ from around ‘3000 BC’ also parallels ‘sumerian history’, where slightly earlier records have been found)
(in the ‘old elamite’ period (aka ‘middle bronze age’), ‘elam’ consisted of kingdoms on the ‘iranian plateau’ (centered in ‘anshan’), and from the ‘mid-2nd millennium BC’, it was centered in ‘susa’ in the ‘khuzestan lowlands’)
(its culture played a crucial role during the ‘persian achaemenid’ dynasty that succeeded ‘elam’, when the ‘elamite language’ remained among those in ‘official use’)
(‘elamite’ is generally considered a ‘language isolate’ unrelated to the much later arriving ‘persian’ + ‘iranic’ languages)
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(in accordance with ‘geographical’ + ‘archaeological’ matches, some historians argue that the ‘elamites’ comprise a large portion of the ancestors of the modern day ‘lurs’, whose language (‘luri’), split from ‘middle persian’)
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