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The Chaldean states in Babylonia during the 1st millennium BC. Chaldea [1] (/ k æ l ˈ d iː ə /) 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]
Previously, when there were as yet no Catholic Aramaic speakers of Mesopotamian origin, the term "Chaldean" was applied with explicit reference to their "Nestorian" religion. Thus Jacques de Vitry wrote of them in 1220/1 that "they denied that Mary was the Mother of God and claimed that Christ existed in two persons.
The Chaldeans had settled in the vicinity by around 850 BC, but were not extant anywhere in Mesopotamia during the 2nd millennium BC period when Abraham is traditionally held to have lived. The Chaldean dynasty did not rule Babylonia (and thus become the rulers of Ur) until the late 7th century BC, and held power only until the mid 6th century BC.
Assyrian, named after their ethnicity as the descendants of the ancient Assyrian people, [219] is advocated by followers from within all Middle Eastern based East and West Syriac Rite Churches. (see Syriac Christianity) [209] [220] Chaldean is a term that was used for centuries by western writers and scholars as designation for the Aramaic ...
Chaldean people may refer to: Ancient Chaldeans, ancient Semitic people in southern Mesopotamia; Modern Chaldeans, modern self-identification of Chaldean Catholics;
2 People. 3 Places. 4 Religion. 5 Other. ... Chaldea, an ancient region whose inhabitants were known as Chaldeans; Neo-Babylonian Empire, also called the Chaldean Empire;
What is now known to be Biblical Aramaic was until the second half of the 19th century called "Chaldean" (Chaldaic, or Chaldee), [123] [124] [125] and East Syriac Christians, whose liturgical language was and is a form of Aramaic, were called Chaldeans, [126] as an ethnic, not a religious term.
Chaldean is thus a religious term, not an ethnic term. The majority of Chaldean Catholics come from Iraq's Nineveh Plains region, which is located in Upper Mesopotamia (northern Iraq). The Chaldeans of antiquity lived in southeast Mesopotamia from the 9th century BC and disappeared from history in the 6th century BC.