Ruler · 601 – 556 BCE

Neriglissar

Lived 601 – 556 BCE. King of Babylon (Babylon), 560 BCE – 556 BCE; also in the line of Babylonia.

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Lived: 601 BCE – 556 BCE; 45 years
In office: 4 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Babylon

Babylon · the 35th of 37 dated reigns · 1894 BCE – 539 BCE

31 before

Nabopolassar626 BCE – 605 BCE

Nebuchadnezzar II605 BCE – 562 BCE

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 560 BCE – 556 BCE · 4 years · came to it aged 41

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 556 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Babylonia (35th of 37, read from the line of Babylon).

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