Babylon

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ancient city city-state former capital

Babylon was an ancient Mesopotamian city-state and imperial capital renowned for its monumental architecture, advanced culture, and central role in Near Eastern history and biblical tradition.

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All labels observed (17)

Label Occurrences
Babylon canonical 188
Babylonia 82
ancient Babylon 3

Statements (55)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient city ⓘ
city-state ⓘ
former capital ⓘ
archaeologicalExcavationBy Robert Koldewey ⓘ
associatedWithMyth Etemenanki ziggurat ⓘ
surface form: Tower of Babel
associatedWithRuler Hammurabi ⓘ
Nabonidus ⓘ
Nabopolassar ⓘ
Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ
capitalOf Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Babylonian Empire

Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ
conqueredBy Alexander the Great ⓘ
Assyria ⓘ
surface form: Assyrian Empire

Cyrus the Great ⓘ
Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form: Persian Achaemenid Empire

Sennacherib ⓘ
culturalRegion Babylon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Babylonia
declinePeriod Hellenistic period ⓘ
excavationStartYear 1899 ⓘ
flourishedDuring Neo-Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Neo-Babylonian period

reign of Hammurabi ⓘ
foundedBy Amorites ⓘ
hasLanguage Akkadian ⓘ
Sumerian (scholarly use) ⓘ
hasTemple Esagila temple complex ⓘ
hasWritingSystem cuneiform ⓘ
hasZiggurat Etemenanki ziggurat ⓘ
surface form: Etemenanki
influenced Christian eschatology ⓘ
Jewish thought ⓘ
later Mesopotamian culture ⓘ
knownFor Ishtar Gate ⓘ
Processional Way ⓘ
advanced legal traditions ⓘ
astronomy and astrology ⓘ
city walls ⓘ
literature ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ
monumental architecture ⓘ
religious temples ⓘ
role in biblical tradition ⓘ
ziggurats ⓘ
locatedIn Mesopotamia ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
surface form: modern-day Iraq
locatedNear Euphrates ⓘ
surface form: Euphrates River
majorDeity Marduk ⓘ
mentionedIn Book of Daniel ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form: Hebrew Bible
modernSiteNear Hillah, Iraq ⓘ
partOf Ancient Mediterranean world ⓘ
surface form: ancient Near East
symbolIn apocalyptic literature ⓘ
symbolizes oppression and exile in Jewish tradition ⓘ
pride and hubris in biblical tradition ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageInscriptionYear 2019 ⓘ
UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus World Heritage Site ⓘ

Referenced by (289)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Belshazzar’s Feast → narrativeLocation → Babylon ⓘ
Halakha → developedIn → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Mesopotamia → contains → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Mesopotamia → contains → Babylon ⓘ
Iraq → UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteWithin → Babylon ⓘ
Phoenician civilization → tradedWith → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonian Empire
King Zedekiah of Judah → capturedBy → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zedekiah
this entity surface form: Babylonians
King Zedekiah of Judah → deathPlace → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zedekiah
King Zedekiah of Judah → eyesPutOutBy → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zedekiah
this entity surface form: Babylonians
King Zedekiah of Judah → takenTo → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zedekiah
King Zedekiah of Judah → brokeTreatyWith → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Zedekiah
Neo-Babylonian Empire → capital → Babylon ⓘ
Neo-Babylonian Empire → significantPlace → Babylon ⓘ
Neo-Babylonian Empire → notableWork → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Walls of Babylon
Neo-Babylonian Empire → hasPart → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Neo-Babylonian Empire → archaeologicalSite → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: ruins of Babylon
Alexander the Great → deathPlace → Babylon ⓘ
Zion → contrastedWith → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylon (in biblical and later literature)
Nebuchadnezzar II → capital → Babylon ⓘ
Nebuchadnezzar II → built → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: fortifications of Babylon
King Jehoiachin of Judah → takenTo → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Jehoiachin
King Jehoiachin of Judah → imprisonedIn → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Jehoiachin
King Jehoiachin of Judah → placeOfDeath → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Jehoiachin
King Jehoiachin of Judah → burialPlace → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Jehoiachin
this entity surface form: Babylon (traditional assumption, exact site unknown)
Second Isaiah → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Ezra–Nehemiah → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Cyrus Cylinder → placeOfOrigin → Babylon ⓘ
Cyrus Cylinder → countryOfOrigin → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Return to Zion → locationOfOrigin → Babylon ⓘ
Montauk Branch → terminus → Babylon ⓘ
the Seven Bowls → linkedTo → Babylon ⓘ
subject surface form: Seven Bowls
this entity surface form: the great city Babylon
Merkavah mysticism → geographicalContext → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Belshazzar → governedFrom → Babylon ⓘ
Babylon → culturalRegion → Babylon self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Song of the Three Holy Youths → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Bel and the Dragon → hasSetting → Babylon ⓘ
La Princesse de Babylone → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Zadig → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Hittite Empire → rival → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Assyria → culturalInfluenceOn → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Code of Hammurabi → countryOfOrigin → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylonia
Code of Hammurabi → placeOfOrigin → Babylon ⓘ
Marduk → worshipCenter → Babylon ⓘ
Marduk → domain → Babylon ⓘ
Susanna → setting → Babylon ⓘ
Zerubbabel → associatedWithPlace → Babylon ⓘ
Intolerance → setting → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: ancient Babylon
Ezekiel → residence → Babylon ⓘ
Chebar canal → associatedCity → Babylon ⓘ
this entity surface form: Babylon (alternative proposal)
Jekonias → takenTo → Babylon ⓘ