Chaldean

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Chaldean may refer to:

[edit] Babylonia

• Historical Babylonia, in particular in a Hellenistic context
• Chaldea, "the Chaldees", Hellenistic designation for a part of Babylonia
• The 11th dynasty of Babylon (6th century BC) is conventionally known as the Chaldean Dynasty
• Chaldean mythology, generalized term used to refer to all the mythologies of ancient Sumer, Akkad, Assyria and Babylonia
• The Chaldean Oracles 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 Babylonian mathematics and astronomy of Babylonia

[edit] Chaldean Church

• The Chaldean Catholic Church (since 1553)
• Chaldean Christians, its adherents
• The Chaldean Neo-Aramaic spoken by Chaldean Catholics
• "Chaldean script" is sometimes used to refer to the Eastern Syriac alphabet
• The Chaldean Syrian Church in India.
• The Khaldi, called Chaldeans by classical authors historically related to the more modern Chaldean-Babylonians
• Chaldean language in older sources refers to the Urartian language and peoples

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