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Part of the Mesopotamian group. Held in 17 of 1,307 regions · its people live in 18 · the state belief of 1 faction

17 of the 1,307 regions hold this belief, 1.3% of the map. In some it is the majority belief; in the rest it is a minority held alongside a larger one.

Strength	Regions	Share of its regions
Majority	12	71%
Minority	5	29%

Majority: 12 regions

Ankobaritis · Apolloniatis-Mesopotamia · Babylonia · Boreia Sittakene · Dytike Apolloniatis · Elymais · Mesopotamia · Nippour · Notia Charakene · Orchoe · Sittakene · Sousiane

Minority: 5 regions

Ano Persia · Charakene · Kauchabenia · Ninawa · Paralia Chaldaia

Mesopotamian people live in 18 regions, and are the majority in 11 of them. The share is of each region's population.

Where its people live (18)

Region	Share
Babylonia	100%
Dytike Apolloniatis	100%
Boreia Sittakene	90%
Orchoe	85%
Ankobaritis	80%
Sousiane	80%
Mesopotamia	75%
Nippour	70%
Notia Charakene	60%
Elymais	50%
Sittakene	50%
Ninawa	40%
Apolloniatis-Mesopotamia	35%
Charakene	35%
Paralia Chaldaia	30%
Kauchabenia	20%
Ano Persia	10%
Chaldaia	10%

In 1 region its people live but do not hold the belief: Chaldaia.

1 of the 239 factions hold this as their state belief. Between them they hold 4 settlements at the campaign start.

Faction	Culture	Provinces
Characene	Iranian	4

These buildings strengthen the belief where it is already held. How much they add depends on how strong it already is there: the columns run from a weak minority (1) to where it is the majority.

Where	1	2	3	majority
Dependency	+4	+8	+12	+16
Direct Rule	+2	+4	+6	+8
Indirect Rule	+3	+6	+9	+12
Large Colony	+10	+10	+10	+10
Region Information Scroll	+2	+4	+6	+8
Small Colony	+6	+6	+6	+6

These buildings add the belief only where it is not held yet; that is how it spreads to new regions:

Where	What
Large Colony	Mesopotamian belief +16
Small Colony	Mesopotamian belief +8

These also add the belief, depending on who owns the settlement, what government it has, or whether the belief is already there.

Where	Amounts
Shrine, Temple, Large Temple, Awesome Temple, Pantheion	+1, +2, +4, +6, +8, +10
Small Colony, Large Colony	+2, +6, +8, +10, +16
Racing Course (Leisure), Stadion (Leisure), Hippodrome (Leisure), Huge Hippodrome (Leisure)	+1, +2, +3
Town Theatre (Leisure), Odeon (Leisure), Theatre (Leisure), Great Theatre (Leisure)	+2, +5, +7
Small School (Civic), Academy (Civic), Great Academy (Civic)	+1, +2, +3
Court of Law (Civic), Magnificent Court of Law (Civic)	+1, +2
Homeland	+16
Region Information Scroll	+16

Nothing. No building and no unit depends on a belief. Nor does any belief cause unrest against another in RIS, whether they share a group or not.

The Mesopotamian group holds this belief alone.