Ancient city in Mesopotamia, the capital of Babylonia in the 2nd millennium b.c.. The city (of which only ruins now remain) lay on the Euphrates River and was noted for its luxury, its fortifications, and particularly for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Babylonian adj. & n.
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