-B-. 1  Balance The difference between exports and imports. 2  Balance of Payments (BOP) Goods on a Census basis are adjusted by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to goods on a BOP basis to bring the data in line with the concepts and definitions used to prepare the international and national accounts.
Judea or JudÃ¦a (/dÊuËËdiË.É/; from Hebrew: ×××××ââ, Standard YÉhuda, Tiberian YÉhÃ»á¸Äh, Greek: á¼°Î¿ÏÎ´Î±Î¯Î±, IoudaÃ­a; Latin: IÅ«daea, Arabic: ÙÙÙØ¯Ø§ââ, Yahudia) is the ancient Hebrew and Israelite biblical, the exonymic Roman/English, and the modern-day name of the mountainous southern part of Canaan-Israel.
Upper Mesopotamia, also known as the Jazira, is the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris from their sources down to Baghdad. Lower Mesopotamia consists of southern Iraq, Kuwait and parts of western Iran. In modern academic usage, the term Mesopotamia often also has a chronological connotation.