Definition of Babylonian. Meaning of Babylonian. Synonyms of Babylonian

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Definition of Babylonian

Babylonian
Babylonian Bab`y*lo"ni*an, a. Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.
Babylonian
Babylonian Bab`y*lo"ni*an, n. 1. An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean. 2. An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.

Meaning of Babylonian from wikipedia

- (present-day Iraq) Babylonian language, a dialect of the Akkadian language Babylonia (disambiguation) Babylonian astronomy Babylonian calendar Babylonian captivity...
- earlier Akkadian Empire, Third Dynasty of Ur, and Old ****yrian Empire. The Babylonian Empire rapidly fell apart after the death of Hammurabi and reverted to...
- The Babylonian captivity or Babylonian exile was the period in Jewish history during which a large number of Judeans from the ancient Kingdom of Judah...
- The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia...
- Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was largely influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written on...
- each covering one subject area. The language of the Talmud is Jewish Babylonian Aramaic. Talmudic tradition emerged and was compiled between the destruction...
- oldest Babylonian texts on medicine date back to the Old Babylonian period in the first half of the 2nd millennium BC. The most extensive Babylonian medical...
- ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East: the First Babylonian Empire (or Old Babylonian Empire, c. 1894/1880–1595...
- The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar used in Mesopotamia from around the 2nd millennium BC until the Seleucid Era (294 BC), and it was specifically...
- gradual replacement in common use by Old Aramaic among ****yrians and Babylonians from the 8th century BC. Akkadian, which is the earliest do****ented Semitic...