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Nabucco (Italian pronunciation:, short for Nabucodonosor [naˌbukoˈdɔːnozor,-donoˈzɔr]; English: "Nebuchadnezzar") is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera.
Nebuchadnezzar II, [e] also Nebuchadrezzar II, meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", [8] was the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC.
Nebuchadnezzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, [1] meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir"), [2] also spelled Nebuchadrezzar, [2] and most commonly known under the nickname Kudurru, was a governor of the city Uruk in Babylonia under the rule of Ashurbanipal (r.
Ashurbanipal has also been most commonly identified as the Assyrian king, "Nebuchadnezzar", in the Book of Judith. [ 119 ] [ 120 ] [ 121 ] Ashurbanipal and other ancient Assyrian kings and figures continued to appear in the folklore and literary tradition of northern Mesopotamia. [ 122 ]
Nebuchadnezzar I [b] (/ ˌ n ɛ b j ʊ k ə d ˈ n ɛ z ər / NEB-yuu-kəd-NEZ-ər; Babylonian: md Nabû-kudurrī-úṣur (AN-AG-ŠA-DU-ŠIŠ) [i 2] or md Nábû-ku-dúr-uṣur, [i 3] meaning "Nabû, protect my eldest son" or "Nabû, protect the border"; reigned c. 1121–1100 BC) was the fourth king of the Second Dynasty of Isin and Fourth Dynasty of Babylon.
605–562 BC) and became even more influential through marrying one of Nebuchadnezzar's daughters, possibly Kashshaya. Nebuchadnezzar was initially succeeded by his son, Amel-Marduk, but Amel-Marduk's reign only lasted for two years before Neriglissar usurped the Babylonian throne and put him to death. Through his marriage to Nebuchadnezzar's ...
Nebuchadnezzar III (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-kudurri-uṣur, [4] meaning "Nabu, watch over my heir", [5] Old Persian: Nabukudracara), [1] alternatively spelled Nebuchadrezzar III [6] and also known by his original name Nidintu-Bêl (Old Persian: Naditabaira [1] or Naditabira), [2] [c] was a rebel king of Babylon in late 522 BC who attempted to restore Babylonia as an independent kingdom and ...
Nabonidus (Babylonian cuneiform: Nabû-naʾid, [2] [3] meaning "May Nabu be exalted" [3] or "Nabu is praised") [4] was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling from 556 BC to the fall of Babylon to the Achaemenian Empire under Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.