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ID: 7593899
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7593899

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Babylonia (former nation/state/empire)  Babylonia (former nation/state/empire)

Coordinates:
Lat: 32 32 11 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 32.5360  decimal degrees
Long: 044 25 15 E  degrees minutes   Long: 44.4200  decimal degrees

Note: State that grew up over time around the the Semitic Akkadian city of Babylon, from the period of the Akkadian Empire ca. 2300 BCE.

Names:
Babylonia (preferred,C,V,LC,English-P,U)
Vavilonii︠a︡ (C,V)
Bavel (C,V)
Bābil (C,V)
Babylonian (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Iraq (nation)  ........  Iraq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Babylonia (former nation/state/empire)  ............  Babylonia (former nation/state/empire) (P)

Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (preferred, C)
state (H)
kingdom (H)

Related geographic places:
capital is ....  Babylon .......... (deserted settlement)
..................  (World, Asia, Iraq, Bābil) [7002626]
coextensive with ....  ʻIraq ʻArabi .......... (general region)
..............................  (World, Asia, Iraq) [7013255]

Sources and Contributors:
Bābil..........  [VP]
..............  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 24 July 2017
Babylonia..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
....................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
....................  Encyclopedia of World History (1980)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 82048268
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Babylonian..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Bavel..........  [VP]
..............  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) accessed 24 July 2017
Vavilonii︠a︡..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-) accessed 23 May 2017
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia of World History (1980)

 

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