where and when did Babylon exist,who inhabited this place?

Answer 1

Amazingly, a 5-second wikipedia search would have provided you with all the answers you could possibly need on this subject.

Answer 2

Babylon, the capital of Babylonia, an ancient empire of Mesopotamia, was a city on the Euphrates River, in what is now southern Iraq. Historically, Babylonia refers to the First Dynasty of Babylon established by Hammurabi and to the Neo-Babylonian Period after the fall of the Assyrian Empire. Babylon became one of the most important cities of the ancient Middle East when Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) made it the capital of his kingdom of Babylonia.

so, it appears that the prophecies about it have come true in the 600's with the start of Islam

Answer 3

Isaiah startling prediction regarding Babylon: “She will never be inhabited.” (Isaiah 13:19, 20) To predict permanent desolation for a sprawling city occupying a strategic location was bold indeed. You would normally expect that such a city would be rebuilt if ruined. Although Babylon lingered on for a while after its conquest, Isaiah’s words eventually came true. Today the site of ancient Babylon “is flat, hot, deserted and dusty,” reports Smithsonian magazine. It is awesome to contemplate the magnitude of Isaiah’s prophecy. What he foretold would be the equivalent of predicting the exact manner in which a modern city, such as New York or London, would be destroyed 200 years from now and then emphatically stating that it would never again be inhabited. Of course, most remarkable is the fact that Isaiah’s prophecy came true! Why did Babylon become such a forbidding ruin? Because of the people’s wickedness and ardent false religious worship, the God of heaven declared that Babylon would “become piles of stones” and that it “will never be inhabited.” (Jer. 51:37; Isa. 13:20) In time, Babylonish religious beliefs and practices spread to many lands. So Babylon the Great became a fitting name for false religion as a whole. In Symbolism Babylon The Great is identified as Worldwide Empire of False religion, and she too as the literal City will become a desolate waste and real soon. So in The book of Rev we are urged strongly to get out of false religion. Rev. 18:4: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.” Rev. 18:21: “A strong angel lifted up a stone like a great millstone and hurled it into the sea, saying: ‘Thus with a swift pitch will Babylon the great city be hurled down, and she will never be found again.’” Luke 21:36: “Keep awake, then, all the time making supplication that you may succeed in escaping all these things that are destined to occur, and in standing before the Son of man.

Answer 4

(Bab′y·lon) [Confusion].

1. The later name given to Babel. This city of renown was located along the Euphrates River on the Plains of Shinar approximately 870 km (540 mi) E of Jerusalem and some 80 km (50 mi) S of Baghdad. The ruins of Babylon extend over a vast area in the form of a triangle. Nimrod, who lived in the latter part of the third millennium B.C.E., founded Babylon as the capital of man’s first political empire. Construction of this city, however, suddenly came to a halt when confusion in communication occurred. (Ge 11:9) Later generations of rebuilders came and went. Hammurabi enlarged the city, strengthened it, and made it the capital of the Babylonian Empire under Semitic rule.

Under the control of the Assyrian World Power, Babylon figured in various struggles and revolts. Then with the decline of the second world empire, the Chaldean Nabopolassar founded a new dynasty in Babylon about 645 B.C.E. His son Nebuchadnezzar II, who completed the restoration and brought the city to its greatest glory, boasted, “Is not this Babylon the Great, that I myself have built?” (Da 4:30) In such glory it continued as the capital of the third world power until the night of October 5, 539 B.C.E. (Gregorian calendar), when Babylon fell before the invading Medo-Persian armies under the command of Cyrus the Great.

Answer 5

Babylon is near (50 or so miles from) what is now called Baghdad. It is believed to be first cited at about 2300 BC. Biblically it was said that Aaron the brother of Moses may have founded it, though it is historically undefined. Then the Persian empire (Iranians) conquered it and that is general make up of who lives there today.

Answer 6

it was Iraq and the empire went into iran as well. first it was the Sumerian which covered the whole region. they were followed by the Babylonians and the Assyrians which split up the area, Assyrians were mostly in modern Syria and Iran and Babylon was mostly in Iraq. the lines are not the same though, and there has been lots of migration sine then. its a culture thing mostly now and it has spread all over the middle east.

Answer 7

Ancient Babylon was an agricultural civilization that emerged in the Tigris-Euphrates river valley area, present day Iraq. Most scholars identify the first written records (recorded history) to come from the area (Sumer, actually) about 5000 years ago.

Answer 8

Babylon was in .Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 mi) south of Baghdad .It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 612 BC. Babylonians lived there. hope this helps.

Answer 9

In Mesopotamia(Modern-day Iraq) around 2000-500 BCE.

Answer 10

Babalon was located in what is now Iraq. The inhabitants were...... are you ready for this?..... drum roll...... BABALONIANS! I know this sounds like a smart alec answer but that is what they were called. They were the forefathers of the people who are now the inhabitants of Iraq.

Answer 11

BABYLON EXISTED IN WHAT IS TODAY THE COUNTRY OF IRAQ. THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE RULED FROM 605 TO 539 BC. IT WAS INHABITED BY THE BABYLONIANS!