Babylonia, ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf). The king largely responsible for Babylonia’s rise to power was Hammurabi (reigned c. 1792–1750 BCE).

Babylonia (/ ˌbæbɪˈloʊniə /; Akkadian: 𒆳𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠, māt Akkadī) was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq and parts of Kuwait, Syria and Iran). It emerged as an Akkadian populated but Amorite -ruled state c. 1894 BC.

Babylon, one of the most famous cities of antiquity. It was the capital of southern Mesopotamia (Babylonia) from the early 2nd millennium to the early 1st millennium BCE and capital of the Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) empire in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE, when it …

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.

2024年12月18日 · Babylon emerged within the fertile plains of southern Mesopotamia, a region defined by the life-giving waters of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. The earliest mention of this city dates back to the reign of Shar-Kali-Sharri of the …

2022年10月14日 · Babylon is the most famous city from ancient Mesopotamia whose ruins lie in modern-day Iraq 59 miles (94 km) southwest of Baghdad. The name is derived from bav-il or bav-ilim, which in Akkadian meant "Gate of God " (or "Gate of the Gods"), given as Babylon in Greek. In its time, it was a great cultural and religious center.

The civilization existed in three major periods, the Amorite dynasty that featured leaders such as Hammurabi, the Assyrian domination over Babylon and the Neo-Babylonian Empire when the Chaldeans led by Nabopolassar took back Babylon and created their own empire.

2021年12月22日 · Babylon was founded more than 4,000 years ago, around 2300 BCE. It was originally a small port town. Its early inhabitants were the ancient Akkadian-speaking people of southern Mesopotamia. In 1894 BCE, the city became the center of a small kingdom ruled by the Amorite Sumuabum.

The Babylonian cities were the centers of great scribal learning and produced writings on divination, astrology, medicine and mathematics. The Kassite kings corresponded with the Egyptian Pharaohs as revealed by cuneiform letters found at Amarna in …

Babylonia is the Greek name of what the inhabitants knew as Mât Akkadî, the fertile alluvial plain between the Euphrates and Tigris. This was the heartland of the Babylonian Empire, which dominated the ancient Near East between the fall of the Assyrian empire (612 BCE) and the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (after 539). Its capital was Babylon.