Babylon

Babylon

Babylon ranks 1,404th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Newport, Rhode Island, Aschaffenburg, and Osnabrück. Memorable people born in Babylon include Alexander IV of Macedon, Ezra, and Belshazzar. Memorable people who died in Babylon include Alexander the Great, Nebuchadnezzar II, and Ezekiel. Babylon has been the birth place of many politicians, and religious figures and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Babylon is located in .

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers 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. Babylon was also used as a regional capital of other empires, such as the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon was one of the most important urban centres of the ancient Near East, until its decline during the Hellenistic period. Nearby ancient sites are Kish, Borsippa, Dilbat, and Kutha. Read more on Wikipedia