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(site of ancient city of ‘babylon’)
(within ‘modern-day iraq’)
“babylonia” / “babylonian”
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“29 JULY 587 BC” –>
(the “neo-babylonian empire” sacks ‘jerusalem’ and destroys the ‘first temple’)
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(‘akkadian-speaking city-state’ founded in ‘1867 BC’ by an ‘amorite’ dynasty of ‘ancient mesopotamia’)
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(𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 akkadian: bābili or babilim; arabic: بابل, bābil)
(“babylon” was a major city of ‘ancient mesopotamia” in the ‘fertile plain’ between the ‘tigris’ + ‘euphrates’ rivers)
(the ‘city’ was built upon the ‘euphrates’ and divided in equal parts along its ‘left’ and ‘right’ banks, with ‘steep embankments’ to contain the river’s ‘seasonal floods’)
(‘babylon’ was originally a small ‘semitic’ akkadian city dating from the period of the ‘akkadian empire’ (c. ‘2300 BC’))
(the town attained ‘independence’ as part of a small ‘city-state’ with the rise of the ‘first amorite babylonian dynasty’ in ‘1894 BC’)
(claiming to be the successor of the more ancient ‘sumero-akkadian’ city of ‘eridu’, ‘babylon’ eclipsed ‘nippur’ as the “holy city” of ‘mesopotamia’ around the time ‘amorite’ king ‘hammurabi’ created the first short-lived ‘babylonian empire’ in the ’18th century BC’)
(‘babylon’ grew and ‘south mesopotamia’ came to be known as ‘babylonia’)
(the ’empire’ quickly dissolved after hammurabi’s death and ‘babylon’ spent long periods under ‘assyrian’, ‘kassite’, and ‘elamite’ domination)
(after being destroyed and then rebuilt by the ‘assyrians’, ‘babylon’ became the capital of the ‘neo-babylonian empire’ from ‘609 BC’ to ‘539 BC’)
(the “hanging gardens of babylon” was 1 of the “7 wonders of the ‘ancient world'”)
(after the fall of the ‘neo-babylonian empire’, the city came under the rule of the ‘achaemenid’, ‘seleucid’, ‘parthian’, ‘roman’, and ‘sassanid’ empires)
(it has been estimated that ‘babylon’ was the largest city in the world from c. ‘1770 BC’ to ‘1670 BC’, and again between c. ‘612 BC’ and ‘320 BC’)
(it was perhaps the first city to reach a population above ‘200,000’)
(estimates for the maximum extent of its area range from ‘890’ to ‘900’ hectares (or ‘2,200 acres’))
(the remains of the ‘city’ are in present-day (‘hillah’ /’babil governorate’/ ‘iraq’), about ’85 kilometers’ (or ’53 miles’) south of ‘baghdad’, comprising a large ‘tell’ of broken ‘mud-brick buildings’ and ‘debris’)
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👈👈👈☜*back to “ANCIENT EMPIRES OF THE MIDDLE EAST”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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