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{{Infobox Former Country
|native_name =
|conventional_long_name = Chaldean Neo-Babylonian Empire
|common_name = Babylonia
|continent = Asia
|date_start =
|event_end = [[Battle of Opis]]
|p1 = Neo-Assyrian Empire|flag_p1 = Map of Assyria.png
|s1 = Achaemenid Empire
|flag_s1 = Standard of Cyrus the Great (Achaemenid Empire).svg
}}
{{History of Iraq}}
The '''Chaldean Neo-Babylonian Empire''' was a period of [[Mesopotamia]]n history which began in 626 BC and ended in 539 BC.<ref>Talley Ornan, ''The Triumph of the Symbol: Pictorial Representation of Deities in Mesopotamia and the Biblical Image Ban'' (Göttingen: Academic Press Fribourg, 2005), 4 n. 6</ref> During the preceding three centuries, [[Babylonia]] had been ruled by their fellow [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] speakers and northern neighbours, [[Assyria]]. A year after the death of the last strong Chaldean ruler, [[Assurbanipal]], in 627 BC, the Chaldean empire spiralled into a series of brutal civil wars. Babylonia rebelled under [[Nabopolassar]], a Chaldean member of the [[Chaldea]]n tribe which had migrated from [[The Levant]] to tribes in south eastern Babylonia in the early 9th century BC. In alliance with the [[Medes]], [[Persian people|Persians]], [[Scythians]] and [[Cimmerians]], they sacked the city of [[Nineveh]] in 612 BC, and the seat of empire was transferred to [[Babylon]]ia for the first time since the death of [[Hammurabi]] in the mid 18th century BC. This period witnessed a general improvement in economic life and agricultural production, and a great flourishing of architectural projects, the arts and science. The Neo-Babylonian period ended with the reign of [[Nabonidus]] in 539 BC. To the east, the Persians had been growing in strength, and eventually [[Cyrus the Great]] established his dominion over Babylon.
The Chaldean Neo-Babylonian period ended with the reign of [[Nabonidus]] in 539 BC. To the east, the Persians had been growing in strength, and eventually [[Cyrus the Great]] established his dominion over Babylon of the Chaldeans.
===Historical Revival of Chaldean Traditions===
