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Baghdad in history
Baghdad and Babylon are not in the same order of magnitude. Baghdad never refers to a country in history, but only the name of a city, and the most glorious moment of Babylon refers to an ancient civilization. As we all know, Babylon is one of the four ancient civilizations. It refers to a country located in Iraq along the Kash River valley in BC, which was divided into the Kingdom of Babylon and the Kingdom of New Babylon. The kingdom of Babylon is famous for its code of hammurabi, and the new kingdom of Babylon is famous for its hanging gardens, Babel and Babylonian prisoners.

At the beginning of the 6th century BC, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon captured and burned Jerusalem, wiped out the Jewish state, and moved the Jews to the city of Babylon, known as Babylonian prisoners in history. After that, the most wonderful performance of Babylon was that Alexander the Great established a great empire across Europe, Asia and Africa, with Babylon as its capital. With the death of Alexander the Great, Babylon gradually lost its status as the capital and slowly began to decline and disappear.

The name Baghdad comes from Persian and began to appear during the Second Persian Empire, that is, the Rest Empire. By the eighth century, when the Arab Empire was brilliant, Baghdad was his capital. Baghdad in Arabic means that the water network is like a blood vessel, because Baghdad is located at the intersection of the Euphrates River and the Tigris River. In the eighth and ninth centuries, Baghdad was the most brilliant city in the world. Later, it was destroyed by the Mongolian Empire and Timur's two western expeditions, and was completely captured by Ottoman Turks in 1453.

The only connection between Babylon and Baghdad is that the former site of Babylon is located 85 kilometers south of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq. Iraqis today are not descendants of Babylonians. They are 70% Arabs and 30% Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Armenians and Assyrians. So the capital of Iraq must not be called Babylon.