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Chaldea vs Babylon - What's the difference?

chaldea | babylon |

As proper nouns the difference between chaldea and babylon

is that chaldea is a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain while Babylon is capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC.

chaldea

English

(wikipedia Chaldea)

Alternative forms

* (archaic) * (l)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • a nation in the southern portion of Babylonia, Lower Mesopotamia, lying chiefly on the right bank of the Euphrates, but commonly used to refer to the whole of the Mesopotamian plain.

    • Related terms

    * Chaldean

    babylon

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Capital of Babylonia in the 2nd and 1st century BC.
  • Any city of great wealth, luxury and vice.
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  • (Rastafarianism) Western civilization, seen as corrupt and materialistic, and contrasted with Zion.

    • Derived terms

    * Babylonia * Babylonian * Whore of Babylon ----