Elam

oa district mentioned in Scripture, lying S. of As syria and E. of Persia proper, apparently the same as the Susiana of Strabo. Its chief city, Susa (Shushan), early attained great importance in Me so pot am i a. It appears that the primitive Semitic Elamites were overcome at an early period by a Hamitic or Cushite race from Babylon, called by the Greeks Co eans.