Babylon
Capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq.
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Babylon ( BAB-il-on) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (53 miles) south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia. Its rulers established two important empires in antiquity, the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire, and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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Location
Open map: Babylon and 7 nearby attractions32.52291, 44.42415 · Hillah
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Photo credits (6)
- Borsippa: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Kish: MapMaster · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Kutha: Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg : Sémhur derivative work: Zunkir ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons
- Ezekiel's Tomb: American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer / Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection. · Public domain · Commons
- Al-Abbas Shrine: Sameralhusseini1987 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Commons
- Imam Husayn Shrine: User:HerbertReichart germany · Public domain · Commons
