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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon: see Babylon Babylon , ancient city of Mesopotamia. One of the most important cities of the ancient Middle East, it was on the Euphrates River and was north of the cities that flourished in S Mesopotamia in the 3d millennium B.C.
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Hanging Gardens of Babylon
(in ancient Babylon) gardens, probably planted on terraces of a ziggurat: one of the Seven Wonders of the World
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Nebuchadnezzar’s huge terraces, built to placate wife. [World Hist.: Wallechinsky, 255]
See : Splendor
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UNESCO vows to make Babylon a World Heritage site after US damage by The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
 
 
 
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