Chaldea
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Date: 2021-12-10

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#Chaldea
#States_and_territories_established_in_the_10th_century_BC
#States_and_territories_disestablished_in_the_6th_century_BC
#Ancient_peoples
#Babylonia
#Ancient_Mesopotamia
#Ur_of_the_Chaldees
The countries around Chaldea Chaldea and neighboring countries Chaldea （/kælˈdiːə/） was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE,
after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population Babylonia.
Semitic-speaking, it was located in the marshy land of the far southeastern corner of Mesopotamia and briefly came to rule Babylon.
The Hebrew Bible uses the term כשדים （Kaśdim） and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the Greek Old Testament, although there is some dispute as to whether Kasdim in fact means Chaldean or refers to the south Mesopotamian Kaldu.
During a period of weakness in the East Semitic-speaking kingdom of Babylonia, new tribes of West Semitic-speaking migrants arrived in the region from the Levant between the 11th and 9th centuries BCE. The earliest waves consisted of Suteans and Arameans,
followed a century or so later by the Kaldu, a group who became known later as the Chaldeans or the Chaldees.
These migrations did not affect the powerful kingdom and empire of Assyria in northern Mesopotamia, which repelled these incursions.
These nomadic Chaldeans settled in the far southeastern portion of Babylonia, chiefly on the left bank of the Euphrates.
Though for a short time the name commonly referred to the whole of southern Mesopotamia in Hebraic literature, this was a geographical and historical
misnomer as Chaldea proper was in fact only the plain in the far southeast formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris,
extending about 640 kilometres （400 mi） along the course of these rivers and averaging about 160 km （100 mi） in width.
There were several kings of Chaldean origins who rul...