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In the Old Testament book of Genesis and in
the Koran, the `garden' in which Adam and Eve
lived after their creation, and from which
they were expelled for disobedience. Its
location has often been identified with the
Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia (now in Iraq)
and two of its rivers with the Euphrates and
the Tigris.