AKKAD (the country, for the town sometimes called Akkad; see under AGADE), northern Babylonia. The alluvial part of Meso potamia was known in ancient times as Sumer and Akkad. Akkad was the narrow strip of land where the rivers approached one an other most closely, and included the cities of Opis, Kish, Babylon, Sippar, Borsippa and Cutha. For details see MESOPOTAMIA: An cient Geography, and under the cities named.