Babil Province

Babil Province (Arabic: بابل Bābil‎) (or Babylon Province) is a province in central Iraq. It haes an aurie o 5,603 square kilometres (2,163 sq mi), wi an estimatit population o 1,385,783 fowk in 2003. The provincial caipital is the ceety o Hillah, which lees opposite the auncient ceety o Babylon (بابل), on the Euphrates river.

Provincial Govrenment

• Govrenor: Muhammad Ali Al-Messoudi (Electit 18 Mairch 2011; 5t Govrenor o Babylon)
• Deputy Govrenor: Iskander Witwit
• Provincial Cooncil Chairman (PCC): Kadhim Majid Tuman

History

The auncient ceety o Babylon in present-day Babylon Province wis the caipital o auncient Babylonie, situatit on the Euphrates river sooth o Baghdad, Iraq.

The ceety wis occupeed frae the 3rd millennium BC but became important early in the 2nt millennium unner the keengs o the First Dynasty o Babylon. The saxt keeng o this dynasty wis Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) who made Babylon the caipital o a vast empire an is best remembered for his code o laws.

The ceety achieved pre-eminence when Nebuchadnezzar II (605-562 BC) extendit the Babylonie Empire ower maist o Wastren Asie.

Destricts

• Al-Mahawil Destrict (Al-Mahawil)
• Al-Musayab Destrict (Al-Musayab)
• Hashimiya Destrict (Hashimiya)
• Hilla Destrict (Hillah)

Ceeties

• Babylon - auncient caipital
• Al Hillah (500,000) - provincial capital
• Al Hashmiya
• Al Kasim
• Al Hamzah
• Al Askandariyah
• Al latifiyah (150,000)
• Salman Pak
• Yousefiah
• Musayyib
• Jurf Al Sakhar
• Al Muhaweel (212,000)

See an aw

• Babylon
• Babylonie

Freemit airtins

• "Babil Govrenorate Profile" Reports, Maps an Assessments o Iraq's Provinces frae the UN Inter-Agency Information & Analysis Unit