Babylonia before Islam · Liberty Politics Discussion

Babylonia before Islam

Babylonia (Falsely known as Iraq) was religiously diverse meaning in the North and East of Babylonia it was inhabited by the ethnic Iranian people known as the Kurds who were Zoroastrians, the Assyrian Christians were located in the North and West of Babylonia, the Pagans were located in the Center and South of Babylonia and there were Pockets of Jewish communities all over Babylonia mainly in the Zoroastrian areas because the Babylonian Jews felt closer to the Iranian Zoroastrians than the Assyrian Christians and Pagan Babylonians

Fun Fact: "Baghdād" is an Iranian name which literally means "Lord-given" it comes from the prefix Lord- (Bagh-) and the suffix -given (-dād) this is because under the 4th Iranian Empire of the Sassanid Dynasty it was the case that Babylonia was under Iranian control before the unfortunate Arab Islamic conquest against the Iranian Zoroastrian Empire of the Sassanid Dynasty

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