The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar used in Mesopotamia from around the second millennium BCE until the Seleucid Era (294 BCE), and it was...
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month in the Babylonian calendar, named for one of the main Babylonian gods, Tammuz (Sumerian: Dumuzid, "son of life"). Many different calendar systems have...
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and Vietnamese calendars (in the East Asian Chinese cultural sphere), plus the ancient Hellenic, Coligny, and Babylonian calendars are all lunisolar...
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(mythology), Babylonian and Sumerian god Tammuz (Hebrew month), the 4th month of the Hebrew calendar Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), a month in the Babylonian calendar...
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time of night from the zodiacal signs. Babylonian astrology Babylonian calendar Babylonian mathematics Babylonian star catalogues Egyptian astronomy History...
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distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions...
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Week (redirect from Hermetic Lunar Week calendar)
all modern Zoroastrian calendars is the system used to determine dates in the Persian Empire, adopted from the Babylonian calendar by the 4th century BCE...
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(present-day Iraq) Babylonian language, a dialect of the Akkadian language Babylonia (disambiguation) Babylonian astronomy Babylonian calendar Babylonian captivity...
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Nisan". Babylonian calendar Hebrew calendar Islamic calendar Kha b-Nisan Mandaean calendar Persian calendar Solar Hijri calendar Zoroastrian calendar Coakley...
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New moon (section Babylonian calendar)
about only four hours since Babylonian times.[citation needed] The new moon is the beginning of the month in the Chinese calendar. Some Buddhist Chinese keep...
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the Temple. During the Babylonian captivity, the Jewish people adopted the Babylonian names for the months. The Babylonian calendar descended directly from...
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themselves originate in the ancient Babylonian calendar, and are therefore cognate with the names of months in the Hebrew calendar, specifically Shevat, Nisan...
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(uncertain if he was a Zoroastrian) conquered Babylon and the Babylonian luni-solar calendar came into use for civil purposes. Cambyses conquered Egypt in...
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Assyrian and Babylonian calendars. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the...
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Metonic cycle (redirect from Metonic calendar)
Metonic calendar (a type of lunisolar calendar), there are twelve years of 12 lunar months and seven years of 13 lunar months. In the Babylonian and Hebrew...
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Babylonian and Hebrew lunisolar calendars and correspond to roughly the same time of year. Though the lunar Hijri calendar and solar Hijri calendar are...
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marks, boxes, or other symbols. Babylonian astronomy collated earlier observations and divinations into sets of Babylonian star catalogues, during and after...
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Babylonian religion is the religious practice of Babylonia. Babylonia's mythology was largely influenced by its Sumerian counterparts and was written on...
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traditional calendars for liturgical purposes, all derived from medieval Iranian calendars and ultimately based on the Babylonian calendar as used in the...
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[citation needed] In the Levant and Iraq the Aramaic names of the Babylonian calendar are still used for all secular matters.[citation needed] In the Maghreb...
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Hebrew calendar, the Chinese calendar, and the Babylonian calendar, but different from the Gregorian calendar. Unlike the Gregorian calendar which adds...
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Nisan is the month of spring in the Hebrew calendar and Babylonian calendar, which are both lunisolar calendars with either 12 or 13 months. The Islamic...
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Babylonian astrology was the first known organized system of astrology, arising in the second millennium BC. In Babylon as well as in Assyria as a direct...
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number of calendar systems in the Ancient Near East were based on the Babylonian calendar dating from the Iron Age, among them the calendar system of...
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Sivan (category Months of the Hebrew calendar)
post-biblical Jewish month names, Sivan was adopted during the Babylonian captivity. In the Babylonian calendar it was named Araḫ Simanu. 6–7 Sivan – Shavuot 1 Sivan...
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Seleucid era (redirect from Seleucid calendar)
another where it starts in autumn: The natives of the empire used the Babylonian calendar, in which the new year falls on 1 Nisanu (3 April in 311 BC), so...
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Iyar (category Months of the Hebrew calendar)
the Hebrew calendar. The name is Babylonian in origin. It is a month of 29 days. Iyar usually falls in April–May on the Gregorian calendar. In the Hebrew...
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Tishrei (category Months of the Hebrew calendar)
Hebrew calendar. The name of the month is Babylonian. It is a month of 30 days. Tishrei usually occurs in September–October on the Gregorian calendar. In...
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Jewish calendar Tammuz (Babylonian calendar), in the Arabic and Assyrian calendars Tammuz (mythology), a supernatural creature from Assyrian-Babylonian Mesopotamian...
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Greek calendars as well. The Macedonian calendar was in essence the Babylonian calendar with the substitution of Macedonian names for the Babylonian ones...
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