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Chaldean (from Akkadian
Akkadian language

Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
 , via Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
  Chaldaios) may refer to:

  1. historical Babylonia
    Babylonia

    Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
    , in particular in a Hellenistic context






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    Chaldean (from Akkadian
    Akkadian language

    Akkadian or Assyrian-Babylonian is a Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest attested Semitic language, it used the cuneiform writing system derived ultimately from ancient Sumerian language, an unrelated language isolate....
     , via Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
      Chaldaios) may refer to:

    1. historical Babylonia
      Babylonia

      Babylonia was a state in Lower Mesopotamia , Babylon as its franklin. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad....
      , in particular in a Hellenistic context
      • Chaldea
        Chaldea

        Chaldea , "the Chaldees" of the King James Version of the Bible Old Testament, was a Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia, mainly around Sumerian Ur, which became an independent kingdom under the Chaldees....
        , "the Chaldees" was a Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia.
      • The 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC) is conventionally known as the Chaldean Dynasty.
      • Chaldean mythology is a generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia.
      • The Chaldean Oracles
        Chaldean Oracles

        The Chaldean Oracles have survived as fragmentary texts from the 2nd century AD, and consist mainly of Hellenistic commentary on a single mystery-poem that was believed to have originated in Chaldea ....
         played a role in Hellenistic mystery religions of the first centuries BC and AD.
      • "Chaldean" in Roman and medieval authors refers in particular to the mathematics and astrology
        Babylonian mathematics

        Babylonian mathematics refers to any mathematics of the peoples of Mesopotamia , from the days of the early Sumerians to the fall of Babylon in 539 BC....
         of Babylonia, and hence of soothsayers
        Divination

        Divination is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of a standardized process or ritual. Diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency....
         or astrologers
        Astrology

        Astrology is a group of systems, traditions, and beliefs which hold that the relative positions of astronomical object and related details can provide useful information about personality, human affairs, and other terrestrial matters....
         in general.
    2. the Chaldean Catholic Church
      Chaldean Catholic Church

      The Chaldean Catholic Church or the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Catholic Churches Particular_church#Autonomous_particular_Churches_or_Rites of the Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Bishop of Rome and the rest of the Catholic Church....
       (since 1553)
      • Chaldean Christians
        Chaldean Christians

        The Chaldean Christians , are adherents of the Chaldean Catholic Church. With exception to few historical religious figures, the vast majority of the members belong to the Assyrian people....
        , its adherents.
      • the Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
        Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

        Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is a Northeastern Neo-Aramaic language. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is spoken on the Plain of Mosul in northern Iraq, as well as by the Chaldean communities worldwide....
         spoken by Chaldean Catholics.
      • "Chaldean script" is sometimes used to refer to the Eastern Syriac alphabet.
      • the Chaldean Syrian Church
        Chaldean Syrian Church

        Chaldean Syrian Church is the name used for the Assyrian Church of the East in India. It is one of several groups of Saint Thomas Christians tracing their origins to Thomas #Thomas and India who, according to tradition, came to India in Anno Domini 52....
         in India.
    3. the Khaldi
      Khaldi

      The Khaldi were a Bronze Age people inhabiting the south-eastern shore of the Black Sea . They were related in proximity and probably also in language to the Hattians, an ancient people of Asia Minor....
      , called Chaldeans by classical authors though linguistically unrelated to the more modern Chaldean-Assyrians.
      • Chaldean language in old references refers to the Urartian language
        Urartian language

        ?????????Urartian is the conventional name for the language spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu that was located in the region of Lake Van in in the highlands of Armenia, modern-day Turkey....
         and peoples.