It was made great and world renown by Nebuchadnezzar, its greatest king, who reigned in the days of Daniel and the Captivity of the Jews who were taken to Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem. During this period Babylon, located along the Euphrates River, was the metropolis of the East and called in the Bible the 'city of Gold'. Babylon continued its reign until 536 BC. The Babylonian Empire came to power in 625 after the fall of Assyria. The Southern Boundary went all the way to Arabia and westward to Egypt. The Eastern Boundary were the cities of the Medes and the Persians.Д¤.

In the south the western boundary extended to Egypt.ДЈ.

The Western Boundary was the Mediterranean Sea with its cities all the way to Cyprus. The Northern Boundary were Carchemish and Cilicia in the northwest.Дў. The largest boundaries of the Empire of Babylon around 580 BC were as follows:ДЎ. Under Nebuchadnezzar (669-627 BC) the boundaries of the Babylonian Empire reached as far as Cilicia in the north to Egypt and Arabia in the south, and from Cyprus and the Mediterranean coastal cities in the west to Media and Persia in the east. Nabopolassar, the first king of the new Babylonian Kingdom, was succeeded by his son Nebuchadnezzar, and it was under Nebuchadnezzar that the Babylonian empire reached its height of glory. The later kingdom of Babylon lasted for 87 years (625-538 B.C.), until it was finally overthrown by the new conquering power of Persia.

When Assyria was overthrown by the Babylonians and the Medes in 625 BC, Nabopolassar, who had joined with the Medes, received a worthy spoil for his share the glorious possession of Babylonia undisputed. The Empire of Babylon (The Largest Boundaries) Babylon was finally captured by the Medes and Persians under Cyrus as predicted by the prophet Daniel, and the Babylonian Empire came to an end in 536 BC. The kings of the Neo-Babylonian Empire were Nabu-apla-usur, Nabu-kudurri-usur II (Nebuchadnezzar II), Amel-Marduk, Neriglissar, LabaЕЎi-Marduk, Nabonidus. This map reveals the Babylonian Empire in 580 BC under its greatest ruler Nebuchadnezzar II. Map of the Neo Babylonian Empire at its Greatest Extant (580 BC.)

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