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Babylonia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke

Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott

Last modified Mar 19, 2019 02:00 PM — History

An ancient Akkadian region in Mesopotamia.

Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912816

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
32.5, 44.5

Locations:

Barrington Atlas location (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Babiru (Ca. 600-400 B.C. Persian, Old, 750 BC - AD 640)
Babylonia (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
Βαβυλωνία (Babylonia: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
Karduniaš (Akkadian, 1600 BC - 330 BC)

Babylonia makes connections with:

None

Babylonia receives connections from:

Suteans connection Babylonia (720 BC - 540 BC)
Kassites connection Babylonia (2000 BC - 30 BC)

Place type:
province, diocese, nome, region

References:

Evidence:

Hdt. 1.193

See Further:

Related:

TM GEO ID 11935

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 A1 Babylonia

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: IRQ

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, Jamie Novotny, and Tom Elliott, 'Babylonia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912816> [accessed: 03 August 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912816 |title=Places: 912816 (Babylonia) |author=Hausleiter, A., M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke |accessdate=August 3, 2020 9:04 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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