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Definitions of babylon in various dictionaries:
noun - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia
The capital of ancient Babylonia in Mesopotamia on the Euphrates River.
A community of southeast New York on the southwest coast of Long Island.
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| The famous tower was built at Babel, Hebrew for this famous city |
| This city's ruins lie on the Euphrates River about 50 miles south of Baghdad |
| Ezra was the leader of the Jews who returned from this land, by whose waters they had sat down & wept |
| Psalm 137 says "By the rivers of" this place "we sat down...we wept when we remembered Zion" |
| An ancient Mesopotamian capital city on the Euphrates |
| Site where 1 of the 7 wonders of the ancient world "hung around" |
| Jeremiah spoke of the fall of Marduk when he predicted the downfall of this empire |
| In his second appearance in the Old Testament, Gabriel announces the coming end of the Jewish exile here |
| In 1902 German archaeologist Robert Koldewey unearthed the fabled Ishtar Gate in the ruins of this ancient city |
| In Revelation 18 earth bewails this mighty city's destruction (gardens & all, we assume) |
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| (chiefly among Rastafarians) a contemptuous or dismissive term for aspects of white culture seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the police. |
| the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capitol of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia |
| An ancient city in Mesopotamia, the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium BC. The city (of which only ruins now remain) lay on the River Euphrates and was noted by classical writers for its luxury, its fortifications, and its legendary Hanging Gardens. |
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| Babylon, Plzensky kraj, CZECH REPUBLIC |
| Babylon, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES |
| Babylon, (Region code: 00), NEW ZEALAND |
| Babylon, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES |
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Babylon (KA2.DIIR.RAKI Akkadian: Bbili(m); Aramaic: , Babel; Arabic: , Bbil; Hebrew: , Bavel; Classical Syriac: , Bwl) was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. The city was built on the Euphrates river 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 Akkadian town dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c.2300 BC. * The town became part of a small independent city-state with the rise of the First Babylonian dynasty in the 19th century BC. After the Amorite king Hammurabi created a short-lived empire in the 18th century BC, he built Babylon up into a major city and declared himself its king, and southern Mesopotamia became known as Babylonia and Babylon eclipsed Nippur as its holy city. The empire waned under Hammurabi's son Samsu-iluna and Babylon spent long periods under Assyrian, Kassite and Elamite domination. After being destroyed and then |