The overthrow of Assyria enabled Babylon to regain much of her former c ontrol of western Asia. The then contemporary centers of the Babylonian/ Chaldeans had been Boghazkoi/Yazilikaya and Carchemish/Jerablus along th e modern Syrian/Turkish border region. The Return of Bel-Marduk Babylon was for a lengthy time an important ci ty in the Euphrates Valley. But more than once did its people have to st ruggle to survive. On at least two separate occasions it had to surrende r to conquerors, who carried of its goo
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