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BABYLONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king)
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Babylonia"):
Sumer (an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC)
Domain region:
Babylon (the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia)
Domain member region:
battle of Cunaxa; Cunaxa (battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne)
Holonyms ("Babylonia" is a part of...):
Al-Iraq; Irak; Iraq; Republic of Iraq (a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq)
Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq)
