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Chaldea

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Chaldea

Ancient region, on the headwaters of the Euphrates River and adjacent to the Persian Gulf. It was originally the southern part of Babylonia; the name Chaldea also has been used (especially in the Bible) to describe all of Babylonia after it was occupied by the Chaldeans, who established a Chaldean (or neo-Babylonian) dynasty c. 625 BC. Under Nebuchadrezzar II, the empire expanded, subduing Judaea and capturing Jerusalem. It fell to the Persian Achaemenian dynasty in 539 BC.


Chaldea
ancient Mesopotamian land where study of astrology developed. [Ancient Hist.: NCE, 499]
See : Astrology

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Of Ethiopia, he tells us: "On the other side of Chaldea toward the South is Ethiopia, a great land.
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