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The ancient site of the Mesopotamian city-state of Babylon is in current day Iraq was founded in 1867 BC.

The Hebrew word for Babylon is Babel, coming to mean a place of “bustling diversity”. The Tower of Babel is familiar as the place where God decreed, “Come, let us go down and confound their speech.” The name Babylon was used in the sci-fi series Babylon 5 telling of a multi-racial future space station.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, were said to be destroyed by earthquakes. It is possible the gardens attributed to Babylon were actually in Nineveh.

Famous people associated with Babylon: Hammurabi

Baghdad, the capital and largest city in Iraq (6.5 million), is located on the Tigris River. The founding of Baghdad dates back to the 8th century, as the center of the Islamic world.

Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland and the largest U.S. seaport in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Founded in 1729, the city is named after Lord Baltimore, a member of the Irish House of Lords and the founding proprietor of the Maryland Colony.

Notable people associated with Baltimore: Eubie Blake, Charles Bukowski, Cab Calloway, Frederick Douglass, Joe Gans, Dashiell Hammett, Alger Hiss, Billie Holiday, Thurgood Marshall, H. L. Mencken, Ogden Nash, Edgar Allan Poe, Adrienne Rich, Babe Ruth, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Upton Sinclair, Gertrude Stein.

Bamako, the capital and largest city of Mali, is estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa and sixth fastest in the world.

Bamako is located on the Niger River and the name Bamako comes from the Bambara language word meaning “crocodile river”.