Babylon
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Summary
Babylon is a city-state[1]. Babylon ranks in the top 5% of city state entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (58,569 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Babylon Governorate[3]
- Country: Babylonia[4], Neo-Assyrian Empire[5], Neo-Babylonian Empire[6], Achaemenid Empire[7], Macedonia[8], Seleucid Empire[9], Parthian Empire[10], Sasanian Empire[11], Rashidun Caliphate[12], Ancient Rome[13], Iraq[14]
- Continent: Asia[15]
- Instance of: ancient city[16]
- Commons category: Babylon[17]
- Said to be the same as: Babel[18]
- Inception: 2200 BC[19]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1[20]
- Significant event: Siege of Babylon[21]
- Topic's main category: Category:Babylon[22]
- Population: 150,000[23]
- Described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia[24], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[25], Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[26], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[27], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[28], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[29], PaulyβWissowa[30], Russian translation of LΓΌbker's Antiquity Lexicon[31], The Nuttall EncyclopΓ¦dia[32], KoΕcielna encyclopedia[33], Reallexikon der Assyriologie[34], EncyclopΓ¦dia Britannica 11th edition[35], The New Student's Reference Work[36], Meyerβs Universum, Achtzehnter Band[37]
- Capital of: Neo-Babylonian Empire[38], Achaemenid Empire[39], Seleucid Empire[40], Old Babylonian Empire[41]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in Babylon[42]
- Category for people who died here: Q9217576[43]
- Native label: Babili(m)[44]
- Category of associated people: Q9237101[45]
- Different from: Navel of the World[46], Babylon[47], Babilonas[48], Babel[49]
- History of topic: history of Babylon[50]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[51]
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Brands and Namesakes
Things named for Babylon include Whore of Babylon[52], a human biblical figure[53]; rue de Babylone[54], a street[55], in France[56], founded in 1868[57]; Babel Island[58], an island[59], in Australia[60]; and Vavilon[61], a village[62], in Russia[63], founded in 1920[64].
Why It Matters
Babylon has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[65] Babylon is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[66]
Entities named for Babylon include Whore of Babylon[52], a human biblical figure[53]; rue de Babylone[54], a street[55], in France[56], founded in 1868[57]; Babel Island[58], an island[59], in Australia[60]; and Vavilon[61], a village[62], in Russia[63], founded in 1920[64].