Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient empire of Mesopotamia in the Euphrates River valley. It flourished under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II but declined after 562 BC and fell to the Persians in 539.
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- proper noun An ancient region and
empire ofsouthern Mesopotamia , combining the territories ofSumer andAkkad .
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- noun 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)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Eden -- probably a region in Babylonia (see Ge 2: 8).
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Assyria -- whither the ten tribes had been carried; Babylonia is mainly meant, to which Assyria at that time belonged; the two tribes were restored, and some of the ten accompanied them.
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If he gave a history differing from that current in Babylonia, the Jews of that region would not have received it as true.
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They were liberally assisted by multitudes of their captive countrymen, who, born in Babylonia or comfortably established in it by family connections or the possession of property, chose to remain.
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Gilgamesh, King of Uruk in Babylonia (2700 B.C.), Responds to Advertising's Biggest Questions. [via Gravity Lens]
July 2006 2006
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Gilgamesh, King of Uruk in Babylonia (2700 B.C.), Responds to Advertising's Biggest Questions. [via Gravity Lens]
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Kar is an Iranian-American who had been filming a documentary about Cyrus the Great, an emperor who conquered Babylonia, which is now modern day Iraq, roughly 2,500 years ago.
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Paschal.p. 398) and the history of Theophanes, (p. * According to Le Beau, this massacre was perpetrated at Mahuza in Babylonia, not in the presence of Chosroes.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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He would again follow the old road along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates and through what once was known as Babylonia, now known as Asuristan.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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The site of Nippur, the ancient capital of Kengi, later known as Babylonia, is the scene of their labors.
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