13 Facts About Chaldea

Chaldea was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BCE, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia.

King of Chaldea was called the king of Bit Yakin, just as the kings of Babylonia and Assyria were regularly styled simply king of Babylon or Assur, the capital city in each case.

Chaldea was followed by Shalmaneser V, who ruled Babylon in person.

Chaldea defeated and drove out the Scythians and Cimmerians who had attacked Assyria's Persian and Median vassal colonies in the region.

Chaldea attacked and deposed Marduk-apla-adding II in 710 BCE, defeating his Elamite allies in the process.

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Chaldea completely rebuilt Babylon and brought peace to the region.

Chaldea conquered Egypt, Nubia and Libya and entrenched his mastery over the Persians, Medes, Parthians, Scythians, Cimmerians, Arameans, Israelites, Phoenicians, Canaanites, Urartians, Pontic Greeks, Cilicians, Phrygians, Lydians, Manneans and Arabs.

Chaldea was deposed in 623 BCE by an Assyrian general named Sin-shumu-lishir, who was declared king of Babylon.

Chaldea managed to fight his way out of Nineveh and reach the northern Assyrian city of Harran, where he founded a new capital.

Chaldea was a patron of the cities and a spectacular builder, rebuilding all of Babylonia's major cities on a lavish scale.

Chaldea's building activity at Babylon, expanding on the earlier major and impressive rebuilding of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, helped to turn it into the immense and beautiful city of legend.

Chaldea is believed by many historians to have built The Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife, a Median princess from the green mountains, so that she would feel at home.

Chaldea conducted numerous campaigns in Asia Minor against the Scythians, Cimmerians, and Lydians.