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	JewishEncyclopedia.com - ASSYRIA:
		The name "Assyria" is the Greek form of the native "Asshur," the city on the west of the Tigris, near its confluence with the Lower Zab, from which the kingdom, and finally the empire, of Assyria was named.
		Assyria's relations to the people of Israel are of chief concern in this article; yet a brief statement is necessary regarding its position among the nations of the ancient East, in whose history it is such an important factor.
		Assyria, however, was not in a position to subdue Syria completely till the middle of the ninth century; and then the conquest was not permanent.
	www.jewishencyclopedia.com /view.jsp?artid=2046&letter=A (1571 words)

	BABYLONIA
		Babylonia later fell under the rule of the dynasty of the Sealand, at least for a brief period.
		After Assyria freed itself of Mitanni domination early in the 14th century bc, its rulers began to interfere in the affairs of Babylonia and sought to control it politically.
		They were eventually successful, and a weakened Babylonia fell prey to the Elamites, who invaded it from the east, deposed its Kassite king, and practically reduced it to a state of vassalage.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=201973 (2817 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Babylonia
		Babylonia -- Sungir, Shumer, or, in Genesis 10:10, Sennaar.
		Babylonia we have again, southernmost, the city of Kish, probably the Biblical Cush (Genesis 10:8); its ruins are under the present mound El-Ohemir, eight miles east of Hilla.
		Assyria and the Kingdom of Mitanni were its rivals and wellnigh equals.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02179b.htm (10270 words)

	Ancient Babylonia - History of Babylonia
		Babylonia (pronounced babilahnia) was an ancient empire that existed in the Near East in southern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers.
		Babylonia was a long, narrow country about 40 miles wide at its widest point and having an area of about 8,000 square miles.
		It was bordered on the north by Assyria, on the east by Elam, on the south and west by the Arabian desert, and on the southeast by the Persian Gulf.
	www.bible-history.com /babylonia/BabyloniaHistory_of_Babylonia.htm (1319 words)

	Assyria
		Assyria and Babylonia contrasted The sister-states of Assur-bani-pal.
		Assyria Township, Michigan Assyria Township is a township located in Michigan State Highway 66 in the south of the towns...
		History of Babylonia and Assyria In the earliest period of which we have any knowledge Nippur in the north.
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	The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
		Assyria went to her downfall at the end of the seventh century before Christ worshipping her national god Aur, whose cult did not cease with the destruction of her national independence.
		Amorites had entered Babylonia in considerable numbers during this period, so that there is but little doubt that his popularity was largely due to their influence, and the tablet containing these names was probably drawn up, or at least had the Semitic equivalents added, towards the beginning of that period.
		Besides Babylonia and Assyria, he was also worshipped in other parts of the Semitic east, especially at Harran, to which city Abraham migrated, scholars say, in consequence of the patron-deity being the same as at Ur of the Chaldees, where he had passed the earlier years of his life.
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	ANE History: Babylonia
		At long last the Kassites were expelled, but disorder continued in Babylonia for another four hundred years under a series of obscure rulers with long names that you don't want to know, until the rising power of Assyria in the north stretched down and brought Babylonia under the power of the Ninevite kings.
		The rise of the Medes weakened Assyria and with their help, Nabopolassar libertated Babylonia, set up an independant dynasty, and after his death (Aug. 15, 605 BC), bequeathed this second Babylonian kingdom to his son, Nebuchadnezzer II -- the Nebuchadnezzer of Daniel (Daniel was taken captive to Babylon during the summer of 605 BC).
		When Egypt conspired with Assyria to reduce Babylon to a vassal again, Nebuchadnezzer met the Egyptian hosts at Carchemesh and almost annihilated them Palestine and Syria then fell under his dominion and Babylonian merchants controlled the trade that flowed across western Asia from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean.
	www.theology.edu /lec22.htm (2938 words)

	AllRefer.com - Babylonia (Ancient History, Middle East) - Encyclopedia
		All these Babylonian institutions influenced the civilization of Assyria and so contributed to the later history of the Middle East and of Western Europe.
		The wealth of Babylonia tempted nomadic and seminomadic neighbors; even under Hammurabi's successor Babylonia was having to stave off assaults.
		Babylonia became an important region of the Persian Empire.
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		During the period when they were competing for dominance in Mesopotamia, the neighbouring sister-states of Babylonia and Assyria differed essentially in character.
		Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria became an organized military camp.
		The Babylonian king remained a priest to the last, under the control of a powerful hierarchy; the Assyrian king was the autocratic general of an army, at whose side stood in early days a feudal nobility, aided from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser III onwards by an elaborate bureaucracy.
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		Note that this is =not= to serve as a complete history of Babylon (nor, in fact, anything even remotely close to a complete history).
		They weakened Babylonia so much that the Cassite Dynasty fell from power; the Assyrians virtually came to control Babylonia, until revolts in turn deposed them and set up a new dynasty, known as the Second Dynasty of Isin.
		Assyria could not withstand this added pressure, and in 612 B.C., Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, fell.
	mirrors.ntua.gr /b5/History.Babylonia (1095 words)

	Babylonia: country, language, religion, culture
		Babylonia is the Greek name of what the inhabitants knew as Mât Akkadî, the fertile alluvial plain between the Euphrates and Tigris.
		This was the heartland of the Babylonian Empire, which dominated the ancient Near East between the fall of the Assyrian empire (612 BCE) and the rise of the Achaemenid Empire (after 539).
		Another factor contributing to Babylonia's agricultural wealth was the use of the the seeder plough.
	www.livius.org /ba-bd/babylon/babylonia.html (2481 words)

	The History of Plumbing (Babylonia)
		In their wake were produced systems of writing and communication, literature, a codified set of laws, a calendar and system for ascertaining time.
		Nebuchadnezzar's "bath" in all actuality was a shower, as slaves poured water over him as he washed with a soap made of ashes of certain plants and fats.
		(Babylonia was the trade center of the Near East whose population contained captured slaves and peoples from all parts of the conquered lands.
	www.theplumber.com /history.html (2269 words)

	Assyria - The Assyrian History - AN web site
		Assyria was an ancient name for that part of MESOPOTAMIA on the upper Tigris River now included in the northern Iraqi provinces of Ninawa (Nineveh), Sulaymaniya, Tamim, and Irbil.
		Assyria took its name from its original capital, Ashur, situated just north of the junction of the Tigris and the Lesser Zab.
		In treating of Assyria it is extremely difficult not to speak at the same time of its sister, or rather mother country, Babylonia, as the peoples of these two countries, the Semitic Babylonians and Assyrians, are both ethnographically and linguistically the same race, with identical religion, language, literature, and civilization.
	www.assyriannation.com /history/assyrian_history.htm (587 words)

	Babylonian - Tower of Babel
		Babylonia was located in what is now southern Iraq.
		The text begins with a prologue that explains the extensive restoration of the temples and religious cults of Babylonia and Assyria.
		The code itself, composed of 28 paragraphs, seems to be a series of amendments to the common law of Babylonia, rather than a strict legal code.
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	babylonia - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A History of Babylonia and Assyria - Vol.
		A HISTORY OF THE BABYLONIANS AND ASSYRIANS THE HISTORICAL SERIES...Sixth edi tion.
		...Quotations in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylonia by Michaela Weszeli The...Quotations in the Astronomical Diaries of Babylonia.
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	Egyptian New Kingdom, Babylonia, Assyria, Hittites, etc.
		Assyria was at first kept in check and then in vassalage to this power, one of the more obscure but more important of the Second Millennium BC.
		The short history of the kingdom was an important period in the history of the Middle East.
		The XXI Dynasty is a weaker version of the XX Dynasty, whose most conspicuous feature is the virtual independence of the High Priests of Amon at Thebes, a phenomenon that began with Hrihor during the reign of Ramesses XI.
	www.friesian.com /notes/newking.htm (7966 words)

	A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 1590163168
		Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (By Lewis Spence)
		A History of the Jews in Babylonia IV: The Age of...
		A History of the Jews in Babylonia III: From Shapu...
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	Babylonian History
		In the meantime, however, a tribe known as the Cassites (Kassites) began to attack Babylonia as early as the period when Hammurabi's son ruled the empire.
		We have already seen that Assyria was for a time actually a vassal of Mitanni [and was under pressure from other peoples].
		The human response to this continual pressure was the development of a sturdy warlike people prepared to fight ruthlessly for their existence.
	www.midwinter.com /b5/History.Babylonia.html (1194 words)

	A History of Babylonia and Assyria
		Babylonia and Assyria were two of the greatest nations the history of mankind has brought forth.
		As a professor of ancient Oriental literature at Princeton University at the turn of the twentieth century, professor Robert William Rogers provides a competent perspective concerning the past history of Babylonia and Assyria.
		This volume also covers the reign of Sennacherib, who ascended to the throne after the mysterious death of Sargon II in 705 B.C.E. As was the case many times with kings in ancient Assyria, Sennacherib was assassinated, leaving his son, Esarhaddon the legal heir to the throne.
	thegreatlands.com /apf/item_id/1590163176/search_type/AsinSearch/locale/us (583 words)

	AINA Books
		A History of Babylonia And Assyria -- Volume II Robert William Rogers
		History of the Christian Church, Volume III: Nicene and Post-Nicene Christianity.
		An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church Rev. W.
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	Babylonia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Babylonia degenerated into anarchy c.1180 BC with the fall of the Kassites.
		The steady growth of Persian power spelled the end of Babylonia, and in 538 BC the last of the Babylonian rulers surrendered to Cyrus the Great (see also Belshazzar).
		Central Command's EVRT Warns of Babylonia, an Internet Worm Spreading Around the World with a Collection of Advanced Infection Technologies.
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	Babylonia Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The armies of Babylonia were well-disciplined, and they conquered the city-states of Isin, Elam, and Uruk, and the strong Kingdom of Mari.
		The mathematicsmathematicians of Babylonia devised a system of counting based on the sexagesimalnumber 60, from which we get the number of seconds in a minute and of minutes in an hour and the number of degrees (60×6) in a circle.
		The city of Babylon, the main city of Babylonia, was found on the Euphrates River, about 110 kilomertres south of modern Baghdad, just north of what is now the Iraqi town of al-Hillah.
	www.echostatic.com /index.php?title=Babylonia (337 words)

	Babylonia, A History of Ancient Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Babylonia (Babylonian Bâbili,"gate of God"; Old Persian Babirush),Was the ancient country of Mesopotamia, known originally as Sumer and later as Sumer and Akkad, lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, south of modern Baghdâd, Iraq.
		History of the Babylonians and the region of Babylonia (Babylon)
		Babylonia during two centuries, and the culmination of their inroads in the
	ragz-international.com /babylonia.htm (8542 words)

	Babylonia - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Babylonia was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad.
		The earliest mention of Babylon can be found in a tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad, dating back to around 2400 BC.
		Arrival of the Semites to Babylonia and Assyria
	www.free-definition.com /Babylonia.html (93 words)

	Babylonia
		History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians: Early Conflicts Of Babylonia And Assyria.
		History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians: Kassite Conquest Of Babylonia And The Appearance Of Assyria.
		History Of The Babylonians And Assyrians: Civilization Of Old Babylonia: Political And Social Life (History of the World)
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	Bublos.com: Compare Book Prices ›› History of Babylonia and Assyria, Vol. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It began in 1320, when a wandering friar made contact, and continued into the 15th and 16th centuries, when a number of explorers took a closer look at some of the ancient ruins that dot the Arabian landscape, but did not pay particular attention to them.
		Also included is a history of Babylonia to the fall of Larsa, the Kassite tenure, and the dynasty of Isin.
		History of Babylonia and Assyria Robert William William Rogers
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	A History of Babylonia and Assyria--Volume I
		The first clue which led to the rediscovery of the ancient language of Babylonia and of Assyria was not found in either of these two lands.
		The history of all forms of decipherment of unknown languages shows that skepticism concerning them is far more prevalent than either its opposite, credulousness, or the happy mean of a not too ready faith.
		The history of this retrograde movement is a curious chapter in the history of the science of language.
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	Babylonia - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Babylonia degenerated into anarchy c.1180 &BC; with the fall of the Kassites.
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	Assyria Part Seven
		Assyria two centuries later, to have left a memorial of himself at the
		It may be correct to ascribe the decline of Assyria, at least in
		Babylonia from about 1000 to 950 B.C. is naturally explained in view of a
	history-world.org /assyria_part_seven.htm (1650 words)

	The Ancient History of Assyria, Babylonia & Sumer: History Rhymes - Do you know its song?
		History of the Jews : From the Babylonian Exile to the Present 5728-1968
		The Geonim of Babylonia and the Shaping of Medieval Jewish Culture
		History of Costume : From the Ancient Mesopotamians to the Twentieth Century
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	History of the World: History Of Religions: Literature: Part II@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		W., History of Babylonia and Assyria from Prehistoric Times to the Persian Conquest.
		Rogers, R. W., History of Babylonia and Assyria.
		- Jastrow, Morris, Jr., The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria.
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