Land of Shinar

Location

Type

region

Coordinates

32.5433, 44.4222

Certainty

very-high

OpenBible.info: "another name for Babylonia (ancient): very high confidence".

OpenBible.info GeoJSON point md561de (Babylon) used as a representative point for the region.

• OpenBible.info entry (opens in a new tab) (CC BY 4.0, OpenBible.info)
• OpenBible GeoJSON (opens in a new tab)
• Wikidata Q1404297 (opens in a new tab)

Scripture

• Genesis 10:10 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 11:2 (opens in a new tab)
• Genesis 14:1 (opens in a new tab)
• Daniel 1:2 (opens in a new tab)

Events here

• Berossus Dynasty 1 (Chaldean) at Babel
• Confusion of Tongues and Dispersion from Babel
• Founding of Babel and the Era of the Tower

Maps

• Assyria vetus divisa in Syriam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, et Assyriam (1651)

Related

• Founding of Babel and the Era of the Tower
• Confusion of Tongues and Dispersion from Babel
• Babel (Babylon)

Free sources

• OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding (opens in a new tab) open-license
• The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) public-domain

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.