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The Chaldean states in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC. Chaldea[1] (/ kælˈdiːə /) was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia. [2] Semitic -speaking, it was located in the ...
The Chaldean Catholic Church is a uniate descendant of the ancient (Assyrian) Apostolic Church of the East (sometimes called Nestorian). Its members still preserve the use of Syriac (Eastern Aramaic) as their liturgical language. It was established in 1551, and its patriarch is resident in Baghdad.
Chaldean people. Chaldean people may refer to: Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia. Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean Catholics.
The Chaldean dynasty, also known as the Neo-Babylonian dynasty[2][b] and enumerated as Dynasty X of Babylon, [2][c] was the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, ruling as kings of Babylon from the ascent of Nabopolassar in 626 BC to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC. The dynasty, as connected to Nabopolassar through descent, was deposed in ...
Ur Kasdim (Hebrew: אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים, romanized: ʾŪr Kaśdīm), commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abraham, the patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites. In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Ur Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar near Nasiriyah in the Baghdad ...
The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, [6] historically known as the Chaldean Empire, [7] was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia until Faisal II in the 20th century. [8] Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the ...
Assyrian, named after their ethnicity as the descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, [221] is advocated by followers from within all Middle Eastern based East and West Syriac Rite Churches. (see Syriac Christianity) [211] [222] Chaldean is a term that was used for centuries by western writers and scholars as designation for the Aramaic ...
Chaldean Catholic Church, Eastern Rite Catholic Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Chaldean Rite, the East Syriac Rite of the Chaldean Catholics. Chaldean Oracles, texts widely used by Neoplatonist philosophers from 3rd to 6th centuries AD; referred to by some of the Christian Church Fathers. Chaldean Syrian Church, title used ...