Empire1792 BCE – 1595 BCE · 197 years

Old Babylonian Empire

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Old Babylonian Empire, or First Babylonian Empire, is dated to c. 1894–1595 BC, and comes after the end of Sumerian power with the destruction of the Third Dynasty of Ur, and the subsequent Isin-Larsa period. The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated; there is a Babylonian King List A and also a Babylonian King List B, with generally longer regnal lengths. In this chronology, the regnal years of List A are used due to their wide usage.

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Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
DETAILhand-traced-from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi
SNAPSHOT1750 BCE
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire5

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Hammurabi's Babylonian Conquests1792–1750 BCE
Major conflict
Elamite Conquest of Babylon1696–1686 BCE
Major conflict
Hammurabi's Elamite Conflicts1785–1760 BCE
Significant
Samsuiluna's Amorite Wars1749–1712 BCE
Significant
Kassites Rule over Babylon1595–1157 BCE
Significant

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1792 BCE and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Old Babylonian Empire (1792 BCE – 1595 BCE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/babylonian-hammurabi · Sources & methodology