| Nabonidus (Akkadian: Nabû-na'id): last king of independent
Babylonia
(ruled 556-539), defeated by the Persian leader Cyrus.
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for the texts related to his fall. In 522 and 521, the Babylonian Nidintu-Bêl
and the Armenian Arakha revolted against the
Persians; both claimed to be Nabonidus' son. |
