Babylon was a small town originated at the beginning of the third millennium BC (the dawn of the era of dynasties) has starred at the political star of the first dynasty of Babylon, founded by Prince Babylonian (HH Labem) in 1894 BC, where the walls of temples and palaces constructed many as the total number of temples ( 1179) temple.
Vary in capacity as well as (153) a great temple to the gods of Fame of the most important temple (Nnmaj) any great Ms. Temple (Ishtar) and Temple (Babu) and Temple (Murdoch).
In the first ruling dynasty of Babylon eleven king was most famous King Hammurabi, who ruled forty-two years (1750 1792 BC. M)
Has managed during his rule from consolidating his kingdom and his victory over all small states, so it is one of the early kings who worked to unify Iraq and to ensure its security as well as his interest in irrigation religious and economic affairs and empowerment of justice among the people, as famously known which is the first law of the position in the history of mankind Bhariath . The included 282 legal material is divided into three fields began to head-then the texts of the law and ended Balkhatmh.
Babylon also sentenced several strains of the latest strain of modern Babylonian era, which lasted nearly one century is the era of King Nebuchadnezzar II (604 562 BC. M) of distinct epochs in the history of modern Iraq in particular and the history of the ancient Near East in general, and the most important work he continued his conquests east and west and the fact that the empire is one of the most powerful empires known in history and sought to reconstruction of the city of Babylon and construction where an area reached during the wisdom of ten million square meters and around eighteen kilometers has been shrouded bassorin great, the outer wall consists of three walls, reaching the wall thickness the first of which was built seven meters yogurt and reached the second thickness of the wall, built of brick and seven meters and the third wall, which was constructed of brick also reached three meters thick, and constructed along the inner wall defensive towers and a moat of water in front of him. The internal wall Vhid of two walls of brick separated by defensive towers and exist within the fence many buildings are still raised by the Panel to the present day, including the (southern palace) and the palace and the northern gate of Ishtar and street procession and the Tower of Babel and there in the city of Babylon eight major gates of the most important (Ishtar and Murdoch) as well as a lion Babylon residential lanes.
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Iraq