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Definitions for babylonia
ˌbæb əˈloʊ ni ə, -ˈloʊn yəbaby·lo·ni·a
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Babylonia, Chaldaea, Chaldeanoun
an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)
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Babylonianoun
An ancient region and empire of southern Mesopotamia, combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad.
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Babylonia
Babylonia (; Akkadian:
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Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based in central-southern Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). A small Amorite-ruled state emerged in 1894 B.C, which contained the minor administrative town of Babylon. It was merely a small provincial town during the Akkadian Empire (2335–2154 B.C) but greatly expanded during the reign of Hammurabi in the first half of the 18th century B.C and became a major capital city. Babylonia played a significant role in the development of law, literature, science, and architecture, and was known for its impressive advances in mathematics and astronomy.
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Babylonia
Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian speaking Semitic nation state and cultural region based in central-southern Mesopotamia. It emerged as an independent state circa 1894 BC, the city of Babylon being its capital. It was often involved in rivalry with its fellow Akkadian state of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia. Babylonia became the major power in the region after Hammurabi created an empire out of many of the territories of the former Akkadian Empire. The Babylonian state retained the written Semitic Akkadian language for official use, despite its Amorite founders and Kassite successors not being native Akkadians. It retained the Sumerian language for religious use, but by the time Babylon was founded this was no longer a spoken language, having been wholly subsumed by Akkadian. The earlier Akkadian and Sumerian traditions played a major role in Babylonian culture, and the region would remain an important cultural center, even under protracted periods of outside rule. The earliest mention of the city of Babylon can be found in a tablet from the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to the 23rd century BC. Babylon was merely a religious and cultural centre at this point and not an independent state; like the rest of Mesopotamia, it was subject to the Akkadian Empire which united all the Akkadian and Sumerian speakers under one rule. After the collapse of the Akkadian empire, the south Mesopotamian region was dominated by the Gutians for a few decades before the rise of the Sumerian third dynasty of Ur, which encompassed the whole of Mesopotamia, including Babylon.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of babylonia in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of babylonia in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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