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BABILONIA
. Bernhardi de Breydenbach Itiner Hierosol. pag. 218 : Tandem per quasdam vetustissimas et spissas valde horribilesque portas intravimus Babyloniam. Sed hæc Babilonia non est illa quæ fuit secus fluvium Chobar, sed dicitur Babylonia Ægipti, quæ parvo dividitur intervallo a Chayro. Itaque non duas faciunt civitates, sed unam, cujus pars altera dicitur Chayrum, altera Babilonia. Et ipsa tota nomine composito Chayrum-Babilonia appellatur. Et creditur quod olim fuerit nuncupata Memphis, deinde Babilonia, et tandem Chayrum, quod interpretatum idem est quod Confusio sive Babilonia.

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