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Kassite

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Noun1.Kassite - a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BCKassite - a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC
Cassite
Caucasian, White, White person - a member of the Caucasoid race
2.Kassite - an ancient language spoken by the Kassites
Cassite
natural language, tongue - a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language
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For around 500 years it was home to Babylonian settlers called Kassites and although the Greek emperor Alexander the Great never stopped over on his journey to India, it was governed by his general Nearchus, who is known to have explored the Gulf at least as far south as Bahrain.
Treasure trove of history by Gulf Weekly
One may recall that the major find there between 1994 and 2003 was a cuneiform archive of more than hundred Akkadian texts, some of them dated, in close relation with the Mesopotamian colonisation of Bahrain by the Kassites in the mid-second millennium BC," he said.
Experts to present new data on heritage by Gulf Daily News (Manama, Bahrain)
Soon afterward, a mountain tribe called the Kassites invades Babylon.
Babylon: a time line by Junior Scholastic
 
 
 
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