Babylon (irq)

Babylon

Babylon ranks 1,417th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Medina del Campo, Šabac, and Poughkeepsie, New York. 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 Daniel. Babylon has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians and religious figures. Babylon is located in Iraq.

Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Babil Governorate, 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, with its rulers establishing two important empires in antiquity, namely the 19th–16th century BC Old Babylonian Empire and the 7th–6th century BC Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the city would also be 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