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(Q5684)

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Babylon

capital city of Babylonia and an archaeological site in modern-day Iraq

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Statements

instance of
sovereign state
end time
1792 BCE
start time
1894 BCE
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English Wikipedia
quotation
Babylon was initially a minor city state, and controlled little surrounding territory, [...] until it became the capital of Hammurabi's short lived Babylonian Empire about a century later. Hammurabi (r. 1792–1750 BC) [...] (English)
The First Babylonian Dynasty was established by an Amorite chieftain named Sumu-abum in 1894 BC, who declared independence from the neighboring city-state of Kazallu. (English)
retrieved
2 October 2015
historical country
start time
1792 BCE
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image
DSC 0658-Recovered.jpg
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media legend
Άποψη των τειχών της αρχαίας Βαβυλώνας (Greek)
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Babylon ausgrabungen.jpg
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Αρχαιολογικά κατάλοιπα της αρχαίας Βαβυλώνας το 1975 (Greek)
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continent
Asia
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country
Achaemenid Empire
end time
330 BCE
start time
539 BCE
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Macedonia
start time
330 BCE
end time
320 BCE
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Parthian Empire
start time
150 BCE
end time
116
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Parthian Empire
start time
118
end time
226
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Sasanian Empire
start time
226
end time
637
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Rashidun Caliphate
start time
637
end time
661
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Ancient Rome
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Babylonia
earliest date
1880 BCE
end time
911 BCE
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Neo-Assyrian Empire
start time
911 BCE
end time
626 BCE
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capital of
Achaemenid Empire
start time
530 BCE
end time
330 BCE
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ISBN-13
978-0-52120-092-9
quotation
Of the four residences of the Achaemenids named by Herodotus — Ecbatana, Pasargadae or Persepolis, Susa and Babylon — the last was [...] their most important capital, the fixed winter quarters, the central office of bureaucracy, exchanged only in the heat of summer for some cool spot in the highlands. (English)
author
Ehsan Yarshater
Old Babylonian Empire
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Identifiers

Atlas Obscura ID
babylon
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Comic Vine ID
4020-57605
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De Agostini ID
Babilònia
subject named as
Babilònia
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Lex ID
Babylon
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FactGrid item ID
Q389820
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Giant Bomb ID
3035-363
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Mythoskop ID
o229
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Myths on Maps ID
BABY1
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Namuwiki ID
바빌론
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Pleiades ID
893951
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RKD thesaurus ID
44853
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SNARC ID
Q134697
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Vikidia article ID
eu:Babilonia
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fr:Babylone
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WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08936605-n
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YSO ID
508116
subject named as
Babylon
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