The land of Phoenicia (roughly corresponding to modern Lebanon) was ruled by the Neo-Babylonian Empire from around 605 BC to 538 BC. Prior to the rise...
Phoeniciaunder Roman rule describes the Phoenician city states (in the area of modern Lebanon, coastal Syria, the northern part of Galilee, Acre and the...
were enslaved.[citation needed] The Babylonian province of Phoenicia and its neighbors passed to Achaemenid rule with the conquest of Babylon by Cyrus...
allies over the Near East. While Babylonianrule over Phoenicia was brief, it hastened the precipitous decline that began under the Assyrians. Phoenician cities...
Neo-Assyrian Empire (911–605 BC), Phoenicia, what is today known as Lebanon and coastal Syria, came under Assyrian rule on several occasions. Southern Canaan...
Chaldean or native Babylonian who married into the dynasty. He campaigned in Aram and Phoenicia, successfully maintaining Babylonianrule in these regions...
Phoenicia (/fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə/), or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region...
Temenid Dynasty, came to control Phoeniciaunder the Conquerer Alexander the Great. The Argead Dynasty ruledPhoenicia until the death of Alexander in...
c. 1894/1880–1595 BC) and the Second Babylonian Empire (or Neo-Babylonian Empire, 626–539 BC). Babylon was ruled by Hammurabi, who created the Code of...
self-governing Jewish province under Persian rule. The First Temple in Jerusalem, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians, was rebuilt under the auspices of the...
Lipschits, Oded (2005). The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem: Judah underBabylonianRule. Penn State University Press. pp. 361–367. doi:10.5325/j.ctv1bxh5fd...
Tell Leilan Kurda Nineveh Tell al-Rimah Ekallatum The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to c. 1894–1595 BC, and comes after the...
and Cadiz in today's Spain. Phoenicia maintained an uneasy tributary relationship with the neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian empires during the 9th to 6th...
Assyrian Empire (1365–1020 BCE), which already ruled many of the lands in which the Ahlamû arose in the Babylonian city of Nippur and even at Dilmun (now Bahrain)...
Parthians since 40 BCE. For four years, until 36 BCE, he lived amid the Babylonian Jews, who paid him every mark of respect. In that year Herod, who feared...
surrounding region. The empire united Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian) and Sumerian speakers under one rule. The Akkadian Empire exercised influence across Mesopotamia...
between Seleucid (Syrian Greek) and Ptolemaic (Egyptian Greek) rule. Phoenicia came under the rule of the Roman Republic in the 1st century BC. Marion (c. 42...
Age the periods are named after the various empires that ruled the region: Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic (related to Greece) and Roman. Canaanite...
ancient Near East, who controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old Babylonian Empire c. 1531 BC and until c. 1155 BC (short chronology). They gained...
Isin-Larsa period and peaking in the Old Babylonian period. In southern Mesopotamia, Babylon became the major power under Amorite ruler Sumu-la-El and his successor...
in 604 BC, burned Ashkelon, and incorporated the territory in the Neo-Babylonian Empire; Philistia and its native population the Philistines disappear...
for the safety of the island. The conflict ended with Tyre accepting Babylonianrule. Alexander the Great, in 332 BC, set out to conquer this strategic...
Empire as well as Lydia and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, marking the formal establishment of a new imperial polity under the Achaemenid dynasty. In the modern...
named after their possible Chaldean origin,: 4 ruled the kingdom at its height under the Neo-Babylonian Empire, although the final ruler of this empire...
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