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Chaldea

approximate location

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ANCIENT NAMES

  • Χαλδαία Chaldaea Greek
  • Kaldu Akkadian

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Ur Ur Mizpah Mizpah Jericho Jericho Canaan CANAAN Assyria ASSYRIA Arabah ARABAH Ammon AMMON Jerusalem Jerusalem +1 Haran Haran Egypt EGYPT Babylon Babylon Chaldea CHALDEA 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 13 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · +N: other places on the same point · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH BABYLON 1 · JERUSALEM · UR 1 · JERICHO 1 AND 8 MORE, named in the same passages

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Ruins at Tell el Muqayyar.

Ruins at Tell el Muqayyar.

PHOTO: M.Lubinski from Iraq,USA. CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons

70 PASSAGES · 11 BOOKS

Genesis 3
2 Kings 5
2 Chronicles 1
Nehemiah 1
Job 1
Isaiah 7
Jeremiah 35
Ezekiel 6
Daniel 9
Habakkuk 1
Acts 1

COORDINATES 30.9622, 46.1044

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