Ruler · 615 – 538 BCE

Nabonidus

Lived 615 – 538 BCE. King of Babylon (Babylon), 556 BCE – 539 BCE; also in the line of Babylonia.

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Lived: 615 BCE – 538 BCE; 77 years
In office: 17 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: left office alive; read off the dates alone

King of Babylon

Babylon · the 37th of 37 dated reigns · 1894 BCE – 539 BCE

33 before

Amel-Marduk562 BCE – 560 BCE

Neriglissar560 BCE – 556 BCE

Labashi-Marduk556 BCE

Nabonidus556 BCE – 539 BCE

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recordthis entry

Reigned 556 BCE – 539 BCE · 17 years · came to it aged 59

Left it: left office aliveread off the dates alone: the term ends in 539 BCE; they died in 538 BCE

Also in the line of Babylonia (37th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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