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The Sumer People
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Sumer (or Šumer) was the earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC. The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer, together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization, is considered among the first settled societies in the world to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilization".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Origin_of_Name
Origin of Name
The term "Sumerian" is the common name given to the ancient inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia by their successors, the Semitic Akkadians. The Sumerians called themselves sag-giga, literally meaning "the black-headed people"[1] and their land ki-en-gir[2], probably originally meaning "land of the Sumerian tongue"[3][4]. The Akkadian word Shumer may represent this name in dialect, but it is unknown why the Akkadians called the southern land Shumeru[2][4]. Biblical Shinar, Egyptian Sngr and Hittite Šanhar(a) could be western variants of Šumer[2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer
Sumer (or Šumer) was the earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East, located in the southern part of Mesopotamia (southeastern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC. The term "Sumerian" applies to all speakers of the Sumerian language. Sumer, together with Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilization, is considered among the first settled societies in the world to have manifested all the features needed to qualify fully as a "civilization".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Origin_of_Name
Origin of Name
The term "Sumerian" is the common name given to the ancient inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia by their successors, the Semitic Akkadians. The Sumerians called themselves sag-giga, literally meaning "the black-headed people"[1] and their land ki-en-gir[2], probably originally meaning "land of the Sumerian tongue"[3][4]. The Akkadian word Shumer may represent this name in dialect, but it is unknown why the Akkadians called the southern land Shumeru[2][4]. Biblical Shinar, Egyptian Sngr and Hittite Šanhar(a) could be western variants of Šumer[2].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization