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Babylonia

a Pleiades place resource

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

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, R. Talbert, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Maxime Guénette, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ryan Horne

Last modified Apr 10, 2026 10:45 AM — History

An ancient region in Mesopotamia.

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

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.6283443083, 45.4954067714

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Map Label Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.

Names:

Geographic 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:

Chaldaea located in Babylonia (1000 BC - 720 BC)
Karastel/Artemita? part of (regional) Babylonia (unspecified date range)
Kassites connection Babylonia (2000 BC - 30 BC)
Seleukeia on the Erythraian Sea part of (regional) Babylonia (unspecified date range)
Suteans connection Babylonia (720 BC - 540 BC)

Place type:
region, map label location

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 A1 Babylonia

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: IRQ. In Rome's World: The Peutinger Map Reconsidered (2010), Richard Talbert notes that Konrad Miller seems to have overlooked this region name (viz. ItMiller 837-8).

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Suggested citation:
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, R. Talbert, Richard Talbert, Michael Heubel, Maxime Guénette, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Ryan Horne, 'Babylonia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912816> [accessed: 13 July 2026]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912816 |title=Places: 912816 (Babylonia) |author=Hausleiter, A., M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke |accessdate=July 13, 2026 3:26 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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