Babylonian may refer to:
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Babylon, a Semitic Akkadian city/state of ancient Mesopotamia founded in 1894 BC
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Babylonia, an ancient Akkadian-speaking Semitic nation-state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq)
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Babylonian language
Akkadian (, Akkadian: )John Huehnergard & Christopher Woods, "Akkadian and Eblaite", ''The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages''. Ed. Roger D. Woodard (2004, Cambridge) Pages 218-280 is an extinct East Semitic language th ...
, a dialect of the Akkadian language
See also
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Babylonia (disambiguation)
Babylonia was a region in Mesopotamia, and a kingdom up to 539 BC.
Babylonia may also refer to:
*The region called Babylonia by Talmudic scholars from AD; see Talmudic Academies in Babylonia
* ''Babylonia'' (gastropod), a genus of sea snails
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Babylonian astronomy
Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia.
Babylonian astronomy seemed to have focused on a select group of stars and constellations known as Ziqpu stars. These constellations ...
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Babylonian calendar
The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar with years consisting of 12 lunar months, each beginning when a new crescent moon was first sighted low on the western horizon at sunset, plus an intercalary month inserted as needed by decree. Th ...
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Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile, a period in Jewish history
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Babylonian Jews, Jews of the area of modern-day Iraq and north Syria
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Babylonian literature
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Babylonian mathematics
Babylonian mathematics (also known as ''Assyro-Babylonian mathematics'') are the mathematics developed or practiced by the people of Mesopotamia, from the days of the early Sumerians to the centuries following the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. Babyl ...
, also known as Assyro-Babylonian mathematics
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Babylonian religion
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First Babylonian dynasty
The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to BC – BC, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period. The chronology of the first dynasty ...
, the first dynasty of Babylonia
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Neo-Babylonian Empire
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and bei ...
(626–539 BC)
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