Chal·de·a

or Chal·dae·a (kăl-dē′ə)

An ancient kingdom of southern Mesopotamia. Founded c. 1000 bc, it eventually came to dominate Babylonia, reaching the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II. The Chaldean empire was destroyed by Persians in 539 bc.

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Chaldea

(kælˈdiːə) or

Chaldaea

1. (Placename) an ancient region of Babylonia; the land lying between the Euphrates delta, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian desert

2. (Placename) another name for Babylonia

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Chal•de•a

or Chal•dae•a

(kælˈdi ə)

n.

1. an ancient region in the lower Tigris and Euphrates valley, in S Babylonia.

2. Babylonia.

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Noun	1.	Chaldea - an ancient region of Mesopotamia lying between the Euphrates delta and the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Desert; settled in 1000 BC and destroyed by the Persians in 539 BC; reached the height of its power under Nebuchadnezzar II Chaldaea Al-Iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic of Iraq - a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq Mesopotamia - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq
	2.	Chaldea - an ancient kingdom in southern Mesopotamia; Babylonia conquered Israel in the 6th century BC and exiled the Jews to Babylon (where Daniel became a counselor to the king) Babylonia, Chaldaea battle of Cunaxa, Cunaxa - battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne Al-Iraq, Irak, Iraq, Republic of Iraq - a republic in the Middle East in western Asia; the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia was in the area now known as Iraq Mesopotamia - the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq Babylon - the chief city of ancient Mesopotamia and capital of the ancient kingdom of Babylonia Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

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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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"That's driving Epidaurus and Chaldea very fast," replied the physician with a grin.

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Terah left Ur of Chaldea (Tall al Mugayar, Iraq) with son Abram, his wife Sarah and Lot, a son of his brother Haran for Canaan (Israel, West Bank, Gaza, Jordan and Southern portions of Syria and Lebanon).

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From Abraham parting from Ur of Chaldea to the exodus from Egypt; from the moment they lost political control of their own land and were dispersed, first in the Middle East and the growing Roman Empire and then throughout the known world, most of Jewish history takes place in the Diaspora.

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The work of French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero became more widely available to English readers in the 1903-1906 twelve-volume translation, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria, where the historian describes, with some horror, the early Egyptians' matrilineal society, where there was "no family, in the sense in which we understand the word, except as it centered around the mother...the woman, to all appearances, played the principal part.

Virginia Woolf's Egyptomania: Echoes of The Book of the Dead in To The Lighthouse

While the Cotton manuscript (British Library Cotton Titus C.XVI) dates from approximately the same time and includes these same four complete systems, Egerton also includes two incomplete alphabets: the alphabet of "Caldee" (that is, Chaldea) is included only through the symbols for letters, while Persian appears only in its letter names.

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Before Yhwh called, Abram was in transit (at Haran) with his father, Terah from Ur of Chaldea, to Canaan (Gen.

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He begins by rejecting the consensus view that Abraham was born in Ur Kasdim by reasoning that it is illogical that Abraham was born there in the land of the "Chaldeans" because he descended from Semites, yet Chaldea and the entire region of Sumer are Hamitic lands.

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As such, 19th and early 20th century colonial ideas about Pacific island 'natives' were strongly focused on origins, using, on the one hand, biblical ideas of being descended from the biblical Hebrews, and, on the other hand, newly emerging scientific ideas about peoples entering the Pacific ready-made from places as far afield as Ancient Chaldea, Greece, Egypt, Israel, or India (Howe 2003).

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Amurru means the Hittite country (Syria) and the nomad land or, according to another tradition, Chaldea. (47) How, then, should we explain this problem in Assur A?

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