Was ancient Babylon the same as present-day Baghdad?

Answer 1

Baghdad and Babylon are different cities. Babylon went into decline after Alexander died. I have an Alexander coin minted in Babylon, but the Seluecid Greeks after Alexander mostly minted coins elsewhere. The Parthians who overthrew the Seluecids minted coins locally throughout their empire, but did mint Tet's at Seluecia on the Tigris, (a Greek city that probably did much to decline Babylon's influence). Neither the Seluecids or the Parthians, (or the later Sassanids), had their capitol at Babylon. Besides competition from other cities and lack of prestige from not being the country's capitol, I remember reading that the soil got impregnated with salt from overirrigation necessitating another location. Baghdad rose to prominence in the early middle ages as the seat of the Caliph, the highest ranking person in Islam.

Answer 2

I think the Baghdad metroplex spans the Euphrates and the Tigris so the sprawl of Baghdad is close to the ruins of Babylon.

Saddam attempted to rebuild Babylon as his capital but that required too much capital.

Answer 3

Try San Francisco run through a colour rinse, and throw in all the big ghettos you can (Watts, Harlem, etc), then put a guy with no sense (like Bush) on the Throne and call him King.

Then put everyone on mood altering drugs all the time, until they're absolutely manic.

It gives you a little idea of what Babylon was like.

Answer 4

if you mean location-wise, the answer is no, but they are/were close. about 30-40 miles apart. Baghdad is on the Tigris River. Babylon was on the Euphrates River.

Answer 5

The ancient were great. They were like ex Soviet Union

Answer 6

Yes one in the same.

Answer 7

more like america