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Babylon's last native king was Nabonidus, who reigned from 556 to 539 BC. Nabonidus's rule was ended through Babylon being conquered by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire. Though early Achaemenid kings continued to place importance on Babylon and continued using the title 'king of Babylon', later Achaemenid rulers being ascribed the title ...
- 539 BC, (last native king), 484 BC or 336/335 BC, (last native rebel), AD 81, (last foreign ruler attested as king), AD 224, (last Parthian king in Babylonia)
- Sumu-abum
- c. 1894 BC
Nabonidus was the last native ruler of ancient Mesopotamia, the end of his reign marking the end of thousands of years of Sumero-Akkadian states, kingdoms and empires. He was also the last independent king of Babylon.
- 25 May 556 BC – 13 October 539 BC
- Adad-guppi
Nabonidus, king of Babylonia from 556 until 539 bc, when Babylon fell to Cyrus, king of Persia. After a popular rising led by the priests of Marduk , chief god of the city, Nabonidus, who favoured the moon god Sin , made his son Belshazzar coregent and spent much of his reign in Arabia .
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
March/April 2022. (iStock/HomoCosmicos) These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). The fall of an empire in antiquity was usually the...
Belshazzar (Babylonian cuneiform: Bēl-šar-uṣur, meaning "Bel, protect the king"; Hebrew: בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר Bēlšaʾṣṣar) was the son and crown prince of Nabonidus (r. 556–539 BC), the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Through his mother, he might have been a grandson of Nebuchadnezzar II (r.
- Bēl-šar-uṣur
- Nabonidus
- Chaldean dynasty, (matrilineal) (?)
Jul 27, 2021 · July 27, 2021. The four symbols seen in front of the king—a crescent moon, the sun, a snake and a flower—may hold religious significance. Saudi Press Agency. Researchers in Saudi Arabia have...
Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, reigning from 556-539 B.C.E. Although his background is uncertain, his mother may have been a priestess of the moon god Sîn to whom Nabonidus was unusually devoted. He took the throne after the assassination of the boy-king Labashi-Marduk.
