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The following is a list of the Kings of Babylon Mesopotamia , in modern Iraq .
This uses the traditional Middle Chronology , although there is now reason to believe it may be too early by as much as a century.
Early Kassite Monarchs These rulers did not rule Babylon itself, but their numbering scheme was continued by later Kassite Kings of Babylon, and so they are listed here.
Gandash fl. c.1730 BCE Agum I Kashtiliash I Ushshi Abirattash Kashtiliash II Urzigurumash Harbashihu Tiptakzi
Sealand Dynasty (Dynasty II of Babylon) This dynasty also did not actually rule Babylon, but rather the Sumerian regions south of it. Nevertheless, it is traditionally numbered the Second Dynasty of Babylon, and so is listed here.
Iluma-ilum fl. c.1732 BCE Itti-ili-nibi Damiq-ilishu Ishkibal Shushushi Gulkishar Peshgaldaramash Adarakalamma Ekurduanna Melamkurkukka [1 unnamed king between Gulkishar and Ea-gamil(?)] Ea-gamil fl. c. 1460 BCE
Kassite Dynasty (Third Dynasty of Babylon) Assyrian Governors 1235 -1227 BCE
Dynasty IV of Babylon, from Isin
Dynasty V of Babylon
Dynasty VI of Babylon
Dynasty VII of Babylon
Dynasty VIII of Babylon
Dynasty IX of Babylon Ninurta-kudurri-usur 942 -941 BCE Mar-biti-ahhe-iddina Shamash-mudammiq Nabu-shuma-ukin 899 -888 BCE Nabu-apla-iddina 887 -855 BCE Marduk-zakir-shumi I 854 -819 BCE Marduk-balassu-iqbi Baba-aha-iddina [5 kings] Ninurta-apla-x Marduk-bel-zeri Marduk-apla-usur Eriba-Marduk 769 -761 BCE Nabu-shuma-ishkun 760 -748 BCE
Dynasty IX of Babylon
Dynasty X of Babylon (Assyrians and Chaldeans) [2 kings], 734 -732 BCE Nabu-mukin-zeri, 732 -721 BCE Pulu (Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria , in opposition), 732 -727 BCE Marduk-apal-iddina II (the Biblical Merodach-Baladan), 721 -710 BCE Sargon II of Assyria , 710 -705 BCE Marduk-zakir-shum, 705 BCE Marduk-apal-iddina III, 705 -702 BCE Bel-ibni, 702 -700 BCE Ashur-nadin-shumi (son of Sennacherib of Assyria), 699 -694 BCE Mushezib-Marduk, 693 -689 BCE Assyrian Sack of Babylon, 689 BCE ; Babylon is rebuilt by Esarhaddon of Assyria in the 670s BCE
Dynasty XI of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean) In 539 BCE , Babylon was captured by Cyrus the Great of Persia , and lost its independence.
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Babylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1767 words)
Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu (bāb-ilû, meaning "Gateway of the god", translating Sumerian Kadingirra), an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq). The earliest mention of Babylon is in a dated tablet of the reign of Sargon of Akkad (24th century BC short chr. The early Persian kings had attempted to maintain the religious ceremonies of Marduk , but by the reign of Darius III, over-taxation and the strains of numerous wars led to a deterioration of Babylon's main shrines and canals, and the disintegration of the surrounding region.
List of kings of Babylon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (298 words)
13 Dynasty XI of Babylon (Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean) These rulers did not rule Babylon itself, but their numbering scheme was continued by later Kassite Kings of Babylon , and so they are listed here. Assyrian Sack of Babylon , 689 BCE ; Babylon is rebuilt by Esarhaddon of Assyria in the 670s BCE
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