Chaldeans

Alqosh or Alqush is one of the most famous Christian villages in Iraq. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alqosh"

Amel-Marduk (d. 560 BC), called Evil-merodach in the Hebrew Bible, was the son and successor of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon. He reigned only two years ( 562 - 560 BC). According to the Biblical Book of Kings, he pardoned and released Jehoiachin, king of Judah, who had been a prisoner in Babylon for thirty-seven years. Allegedly because Amel-Marduk tried to modify his father's policies, he was murdered by Nergal-sharezer (Neriglissar), his brother-in-law, who succeeded him. ...more on Wikipedia about "Amel-Marduk"

Araden (ܐܪܥܪܢ in Syriac) is a village in northern Iraq. It is located 20-30 kilometers south of the city named Zakho and lies in a valley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Araden"

Arbil ( , arbīl; also written Erbil or Irbil), or Hewlêr ( Kurdish), is one of the large cities in Iraq. The city lies eighty kilometres (fifty miles) east of Mosul (at 36.18 N 44.02 E ). In 2005, its estimated population was 990,000 inhabitants. The city is the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arbil"

(Assyrian cuisine) ==Ftarta ( Breakfast) ܦܛܪܬܐ== ...more on Wikipedia about "Assyrian cuisine"

Assyrians are a Syriac-speaking Semitic minority inhabiting northern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran, some of whom are also identified as Aramaeans, Syriacs, and Chaldeans, among other names. They are descended of the indegenous inhabitants of the former Assyrian Empire, and are the original inhabitants of much of the Fertile Crescent. Currently, the survivors are a persecuted indigenous minority in the Middle East with their own language and religion. A significant proportion of the ethnically Arab inhabitants of modern Iraq and Syria are the descendants of ethnic Assyrians who were: voluntarily or by force, Arabized into the Muslim population having lost their original ethnic identity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Assyrian people"

Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, ܒܒܠ in Assyrian, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (Location: , modern Al Hillah, Iraq). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 612 BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל ( Babel), interpreted by popular etymology to mean "confusion". Akkadian bāb-ilû means "Gate of God", translating Sumerian Kadingirra. ...more on Wikipedia about "Babylon"

Belshazzar (or Baltasar; Akkadian Bel-sarra-usur) was a prince of Babylon, the son of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon. In the Book of Daniel (chapters 5 and 8) of the Jewish Tanakh or Christian Old Testament, Belshazzar is the King of Babylon before the advent of the Medes and Persians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Belshazzar"

Beth Nahrain ( Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ; "the house/land of the rivers") is the Neo- Aramaic name for Mesopotamia (a Greek word which means "the land between the rivers"). It refers to the rivers Frot ( Euphrates) and Deqlath ( Tigris), in and around the modern-day countries of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Unlike the Greek name, the Neo-Aramaic name loosely describes the area of the rivers, not between. This larger area roughly encompasses Iraq, Syria, southeast Turkey, Lebanon, western Iran and northern Jordan. The indigenous inhabitants of Beth Nahrain are the Syriacs (who are also known as Arameans, Assyrians, and Chaldeans, among other names), all of whom speak Syriac. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beth Nahrain"

Chaldea, "the Chaldees" of the KJV Old Testament, was a Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia. One early such reference is to the impending sack of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II ( Habakkuk 1:6). The Hebrew name for ancient Chaldeans was כשדים (Kasdim). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaldea"

Chaldean can refer to an ancient people of lower Mesopotamia and their culture, or a contemporary Christian people living mostly in Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, as well as a relativley widespread diaspora concentrated in the western world. Chaldean today are a religious denomination which has nothing to do with the ancient Chaldeans. Chaldeans are ethnically Assyrian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaldean"

The Chaldean Catholic Church aka the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Rite sui juris (autonomous) particular church of the Roman Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Pope in Rome. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaldean Catholic Church"

Chaldeans (Assyro-Chaldeans, Chaldo-Assyrians, ܟܠܕܘܐܫܘܪܝܐ in Syriac) are a Syriac-speaking Semitic people currently living in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, and in diaspora. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chaldeans"

Dohuk is a town in Iraq of 400,000 inhabitants. The name Dohuk comes from Kurmanji Kurdish meaning "small village". ...more on Wikipedia about "Dahuk, Iraq"

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Labashi-Marduk, Chaldean king of Babylon ( 556 BCE), and son of Neriglissar. Labashi-Marduk succeeded his father when still only a boy, after the latter's four-year reign. Most likely due to his very young age, he was unfit to rule, and was murdered in a conspiracy only nine months after his inauguration. Nabonidus was consequently chosen as the new king. ...more on Wikipedia about "Labashi-Marduk"

The following is a list of Chaldean/ Assyrian/ Syriac cities, districts, towns and villages: ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Assyrian villages"

Marduk-apal-iddina II (the biblical Merodach-baladan, also called Marduk-baladan, Baladan and Berodach-baladan) ( 722– 702 BCE), Chaldean prince, who usurped the Babylonian throne in 721. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marduk-apal-iddina II"

Marduk-zakir-shumi II was a Babylonian nobleman who served briefly as King of Babylon for a few months in 703 BC, following a revolt against the rule of the Assyrian king Sennacherib. He was soon overthrown and replaced by the former Chaldean king, Marduk-apal-iddina II. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marduk-zakir-shumi II"

Mosul ...more on Wikipedia about "Mosul"

Mushezib-Marduk ( 692 BC - 689 BC), Chaldean prince chosen as King of Babylon after Nergal-ushezib. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mushezib-Marduk"

Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last King of Babylon, who reigned from 556 BC to 539 BC. His reign was characterized by his lack of interest in the politics and religion of his kingdom, preferring instead to study the older temples and antiquities in his region. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nabonidus"

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Nabopolassar ( Akkadian:Nabû-apal-usur) was the first king (626-605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nabopolassar"

Nebuchadrezzar (also Nebuchadnezzar) II (reigned 605 BC - 562 BC), perhaps the best known ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty. He is famous (or infamous) for his conquests of Judah and Jerusalem, in addition to his monumental building within his capital of Babylon. One of the reasons he is so well known is because of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, which as legend has it he made for his wife because she was homesick for the mountain springs where she grew up. He is sometimes called "Nebuchadnezzar the Great", but because of his destruction of temples in Jerusalem and the conquest of Judah, he was vilified in the Bible and the appellation of "Great" was lost. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nebuchadrezzar II"

Nergal-sharezer or Neriglissar was King of Babylon from 560 to 556 BC. He was the son-in-law of Nebuchadrezzar II, whose son and heir, Amel-Marduk, Nergal-sharezer overthrew. ...more on Wikipedia about "Neriglissar"

Ninawa (in Arabic: نینوا ,in kurdish: Neynewa, in Assyrian: Nineveh) is a governorate (province) in Iraq, and the Arabic name for the biblical city of Nineveh in Assyria. It has an area of 37,323 km² and an estimated population of 2,509,800 people. Its chief city, and the provincial capital, is Mosul (in Arabic al Mawsil), which lies across the Euphrates river from the ruins of Nineveh. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ninawa"

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