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	Babylonia: Encyclopedia - Babylonia
		Babylonia, named for the city of Babylon, was an ancient state in Mesopotamia (in modern Iraq), combining the territories of Sumer and Akkad.
		One of these Amorites, Abi-ramu or Abram by name, is the father of a witness to a deed dated in the reign of Hammurabi's grandfather.
		The invasion of Babylonia by Cyrus was doubtless facilitated by the existence of a disaffected party in the state, as well as by the presence of foreign exiles like the Jews, who had been planted in the midst of the country.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Babylonia/id/1894213 (2161 words)

	Babylonian and Assyrian religion - LoveToKnow 1911
		The development of the religion of Babylonia, so far as it can be traced with the material at hand, follows closely along the lines of the periods to be distinguished in the history of the Euphrates valley.
		They appointed their sons or brothers governors of Babylonia, and in the long array of titles that the kings gave themselves, a special phrase was always set aside to indicate their mastery over Babylonia.
		It is significant that in the royal collection of cuneiform literature made by King Assur-bani-pal of Assyria (668-626 B.C.) and deposited in his palace at Nineveh, the omen collections connected with the astral theology of Babylonia and Assyria form the largest class.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Babylonian_and_Assyrian_religion (2385 words)

	The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
		The meaning of her name is "lady of the great region," a description which is supposed to apply to Hades, and of which a variant, Ere-ki-gal, "lady of the great house," occurs in the Hymns to Tammuz in the Manchester Museum.
		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.
	www.sacred-texts.com /ane/rbaa.htm (16050 words)

	Babylonia and Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Babylonia was a land of merchants and agriculturists; Assyria was an organized 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.
		Hence the sudden collapse of Assyria when drained of its fighting population in the age of Assur-bani-pal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babylonia_and_Assyria (208 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Assyria
		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.
		Geographically, Assyria occupies the northern and middle part of Mesopotamia, situated between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris; while the southern half, extending as far south as the Persian Gulf, constitutes the countries of Babylonia and Chaldea.
		Whether the name Assyria is derived from that of the god Asshur, or vice versa, or whether Asshur was originally the name of a particular city and afterwards applied to the whole country cannot be determined.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02007c.htm (9775 words)

	Early history of Assyria
		Strictly speaking, the use of the name "Assyria" for the period before the latter half of the 2nd millennium BC is anachronistic; Assyria [as against the city-state of Ashur] did not become an independent state until about 1400 BC.
		In the north, Assyria was later bordered by the mountain state of Urartu; to the east and southeast its neighbour was the region around ancient Nuzi (near modern Kirkuk, "Arrapchitis" [Arrapkha] of the Greeks).
		The reign of Ashur-dan III (772-755) was shadowed by rebellions and by epidemics of plague.
	www.angelfire.com /nt/Gilgamesh/assyrian.html (9518 words)

	Adad
		To judge from analogous instances of a double nomenclature, the two names revert to two different centres for the cult of a storm-god, though it must be confessed that up to the present it has been impossible to determine where these centres were.
		On the other hand the cult of a specific storm-god in ancient Babylonia is vouched for by the occurrence of the sign in the "Sumerian" or ideographic writing for Adad-Ramman is an element in proper names of the old Babylonian period.
		Similarly in the annals and votive inscriptions of the kings, when oracles are referred to, Shamash and Adad are always named as the gods addressed, and their ordinary designation in such instances is bele biri, "lords of divination." The consort of Adad-Ramman is Shala[?], while as Amurru his consort is called Aschratum[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ad/Adad.html (427 words)

	Babylonia
		It is remarkable that Babylonia possesses no bronze period, but passed from copper to iron; though in later ages it learnt the use of bronze from Assyria.
		In North Babylonia we have again, southernmost, the city of Kish, probably the Biblical Cush (Gen., x, 8); its ruins are under the present mound El-Ohemir, eight miles east of Hilla.
		Their names are certainly very puzzling, but it has been suggested that these were not personal names, but names of the city-quarters from which they originated.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/babylonia.html (9466 words)

	Babylonia and Assyria, Religion of - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		The religion of Babylonia and Assyria is that system of belief in higher things with which the peoples of the Tigris and Euphrates valley strove to put themselves into relations, in order to live their lives.
		The name of the god Anu was interpreted as meaning heaven, corresponding to the Sumerian word ana, "heaven," and he came thus to be regarded as the god of heaven as over against Enlil who was the god of earth, and Ea who was the god of the waters.
		His proper name in the later periods was gradually displaced by the appellativc Belu "lord," so that finally he was commonly spoken of as Bel, and his consort was called Belit.
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1077 (6514 words)

	Proper names of Babylonia and Assyria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The name of a deity, entering as an element in most proper names, was almost invariably written with the special sign or signs representing this deity, and it is rare that this name is spelled phonetically.
		Thus, the name of the chief god of the Babylonian pantheon, Marduk, is written by two signs to be pronounced AMAR-UD, to describe the god as the "young bullock of the clay".
		The proper names of the numerous business documents of the Hammurabi period, when phonetic writing was the fashion, have been of special value in resolving doubts as to the correct reading of names written ideographically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proper_names_of_Babylonia_and_Assyria (1307 words)

	Babylonian - Tower of Babel
		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.crystalinks.com /babylonian.html (4415 words)

	babylonia
		His name means "the child," and his cult--apparently celebrated primarily by women--centred on the lamentation and search for Damu, who had lain under the bark of his nurse, the cedar tree, and had disappeared.
		With the growing tendency toward anthropomorphism, the old form and name were gradually disassociated from the god as merely his emblems; enmity toward the older inacceptable shape eventually made it evil, an ancient enemy of the god.
		His own name, Dumu-zid, and two variant designations for him, Ama-ga (Mother Milk) and U-lu-lu (Multiplier of Pasture), suggest that he actually was the power for everything that a shepherd might wish for: grass to come up in the desert, healthy lambs to be born, and milk to be plentiful in the mother animals.
	www.farmpride.com /babylonia.html (21720 words)

	Assyrians after Assyria (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the Babylonian version of the Persian inscription, the name Athura is at this point rendered Eber nari, "land beyond the river (Euphrates)." This shows that the Western, originally Aramean, half of the Assyrian Empire was already at this time firmly identified with Assyria proper, an important issue to which we shall return later on.
		This name is given to Babylonia and to much of the country all around, which latter, in part, is also called Aturia, in which are Ninus [...], Nisibis, as far as the Zeugma of the Euphrates, as also much of the country on the far side of the Euphrates...
		The Aramaization of Assyria was calculated policy aimed at creating national unity and identity of a kind that could never have been achieved, had the Empire remained a loose conglomeration of a plethora of different nations and languages.
	aanf.org /America/assyrians/assyrians_assyria.htm (4204 words)

	Proper Name Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I was not invited to help name the new Ann Arbor high school.
		I understand that as someone who was not invited to name the new high school, my opinion does not matter, but I just want to share a piece of information.
		proper name ; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
	betterdictionary.com /proper-name-dictionary.html (292 words)

	Refutation to "Allah" originated from pagan diety
		He came to be distinguished by the name of the locality in which he was adored and by the special character or function attributed to him.
		The breakdown of the name is BA' ILAH, and the goddess is BA' ILAT.
		It is the name of a man and the name of an oak tree.
	answering-christianity.com /allahorigin.htm (5211 words)

	The Assyro-Babylonian Mythology FAQ
		Assyria, was the northern portion of Mesopotamia, who's capital was Ashur (until 883 BCE, when it was moved to Calah/Nimrud) and whose reach included the major city of Nineveh (Ninua).
		Assyria attained a brief period of dominance under Shamshi-Adad (1813-1781 BCE) but was soon superseded by Babylon under Hammurapi (Hammurabi) (1792-50 BCE) who established what once were thought to be the first written law codes (more recent discoveries include law codes from a couple centuries prior to Hammurapi).
		The empire collapsed from invaders with Nineveh falling to Nabopalasar of Babylon in 612 BCE and the empire dying in 605 BCE.
	home.comcast.net /~chris.s/assyrbabyl-faq.html (7630 words)

	Definition of Gnosticism
		By this latter name, however, he meant not the original religion of Babylonia, but the syncretistic relgion which arose after the conquest of Cyrus.
		That these names areonly a disguise for the Sancta Hebdomas is clear, for Sophia, the mother of them, retains the name of Ogdoas, Octonatio.
		This Euphrates, whose name is perhaps connected with the name Peratae itself, is said to be the founder of the Ophites mentioned by Celsus about A.D. The Cainites were so called because they venerated Cain, and Esau, and the Sodomites, and Core, and Judas, because they had all resisted the god of the Jews.
	www.ourladyswarriors.org /dissent/defgnost.htm (10687 words)

	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.
		Although any Hittites are long gone, the Turkish name is a political claim to tie the province to Anatolia, while the population was actually overwhelmingly Arab when France ceded the area from Syria to Turkey in 1939 -- a perhaps a vindictive act to punish the Syrians for not appreciating French rule.
		As it happens, this now common name, "Candace," was not a proper name, but the title of the Queen of Kush, whether a ruling Queen or the mother of the heir.
	www.friesian.com /notes/newking.htm (7979 words)

	Home - EverburningLight.org
		It is translated for the first time in English, and it gives all the names of the angels connected to every specific question.
		He meant it as a rule of thumb for the masters of the names to know the truth behind the names they use, because no name can properly be used without such knowledge.
		This important work was traditionally attributed to Shem Tov Sefardi, and according to the tradition we maintained the author's name.
	www.everburninglight.org (1136 words)

	Timeline Babylonia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gilgamesh was the subject of many epics, including the Sumerian "Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Nether World" and the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh." In 1844 Westerners discovered an epic poem based on Gilgamesh on stone fragments in Mosul, Iraq.
		2400BC Dagan, a name that appears in early Mesopotamia, and that enters into the composition of proper names in Babylonia about this time.
		Dagan was later a name for head of the Philistine pantheon.
	timelines.ws /countries/BABYLONIA.HTML (1121 words)

	Assyria, History of Assyria from Rise to Fall (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The discoverers of the long-buried memorials of Assyria and
		Babylonia were at first and for a long time unable to read their message.
		Not belonging to the epistolary literature of Assyria and
	history-world.org /assyrians.htm (2748 words)

	Adad
		A god Hadad who was a prominent deity in ancient Syria is identical with Adad, and in view of this it is plausible to assume---for which there is also other evidence—that the name Adad represents an importation into Assyria from Aramaic districts.
		On the other hand the cult of a specific storm-god in ancient Babylonia is vouched for by the occurrence of the sign Im—the “Sumerian” or ideographic writing for Adad-Ramman—as an element in proper names of the old Babylonian period.
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	www.worldspirituality.org /adad.html (449 words)

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