The Routledge Dictionary of Judaism
Babylon, the city, and Babylonia, the region, were located where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come close together, the area around present day Baghdad, in Iraq. Babylonia was the empire that conquered Judea in 586 B.C.E.
and sent the Jews into exile. Jews remained in Babylonia from 586 to 1952 C.E., when most left for Israel and the West.
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