Cities and Towns on the Euphrates River - Euphrates, Anah, Babylon, Fallujah, Ramadi, Kufa, AR-Raqqah, Samawah, Haditha, Nasiriyah, Deir EZ-Zor (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 135. Not illustrated. Chapters: Euphrates, Anah, Babylon, Fallujah, Ramadi, Kufa, Ar-Raqqah, Samawah, Haditha, Nasiriyah, Deir Ez-Zor, Al-Qa'im, Al Hillah, Iskandariya, List of Cities and Towns on the Euphrates River, H t, Mayadin, Haqlaniyah, Musayyib, Khan Al Baghdadi, Al Diwaniyah, Saqlawiyah, Al Kifl, Rawa, Saddat Al Hindiyah, Al Nasr Wal Salam, Al-Hanaya. Excerpt: Babylon (Greek, from Akkadian: Babili, Babilla) was a city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad. All that remains of the original ancient famed city of Babylon today is a mound, or tell, of broken mud-brick buildings and debris in the fertile Mesopotamian plain between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in Iraq. Although it has been reconstructed, historical resources inform us that Babylon was at first a small town, that had sprung up by the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. The town flourished and attained prominence and political repute with the rise of the First Babylonian Dynasty. It was the "holy city" of Babylonia by approximately 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 to 539 BC. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Greek form is an adaptation of Babylonian Babili. The Babylonian name as it stood in the 1st millennium BC had been changed from an earlier Babilli in early 2nd millennium BC, interpreted as "gateway of the god" (bb-ili) by popular etymology. The earlier name Babilla appears to be an adaptation of a non-Semitic source of unknown origin or meaning. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as (Babel), interpreted by Book of Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion" (viz. of languages), from the verb bilbel, "to confuse." The Syriac form is Bwl, the Arabic form is Bbil. The ...