page_title: List of kings of Babylon
section_title: Assyrian dynasty (729–626 BC)
hierarchical_section_title: List of kings of Babylon / Assyrian dynasty (729–626 BC)
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context_page_description: The king of Babylon was the ruler of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon and its kingdom, Babylonia, which existed as an independent realm from the 19th century BC to its fall in the 6th century BC. For the majority of its existence as an independent kingdom, Babylon ruled most of southern Mesopotamia, composed of the ancient regions of Sumer and Akkad. The city experienced two major periods of ascendancy, when Babylonian kings rose to dominate large parts of the Ancient Near East; the First Babylonian Empire and the Second Babylonian Empire.
  The title šar Bābili was applied to Babylonian rulers relatively late, from the 8th century BC and onwards. Preceding Babylonian kings had typically used the title Viceroy of Babylon out of reverence for Babylon's patron deity Marduk, considered the city's formal "king". Other titles frequently used by the Babylonian monarchs included the geographical titles King of Sumer and Akkad and King of Karduniash, "Karduniash" being the name applied to Babylon's kingdom by the city's third dynasty.
  Many of Babylon's kings were of foreign origin.
context_section_description: The Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III conquered Babylonia in 729 BC. From his rule and onwards, most of the Assyrian kings were also titled as Kings of Babylon, ruling both Assyria and Babylonia in something akin to a personal union. 
  Vassal kings, sometimes appointed instead of the Assyrian king ruling Babylonia directly, are indicated with darker grey background color. Native Babylonians who rebelled against the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and attempted to restore Babylonia's independence are indicated with beige background color.
caption: The Neo-Assyrian Empire at the apex of its power in 671 BC, in the reign of Esarhaddon
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