AchaemenicaAn Encyclopaedia of the Achaemenid Persian Empire

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Nabonidus

last king of the Neo-Babylonian empire

The last Neo-Babylonian king, deposed when Cyrus II took Babylon in 539 BCE. His own inscriptions and the hostile Marduk-centred tradition preserve sharply different accounts of his reign.

Date
r. 556–539 BCE
Other names
Nabû-naʾid
Groups
Rulers beyond Persia
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