Babylonia covers the stretch of land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, both of which originate in the Armenian highlands and flow into the Persian Gulf. In early times, the southern section of Babylonia was known as Sumer and the northern section as Akkad. Following the unification of Sumer and Akkad by Amorite kings who set up their capital at Babylon in the late eighteenth century b.c.e., the entire region of the Euphrates Valley came to be called Babylonia. Babylonia during the time... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.