When did Babylon stop being occupied?

When did Babylon stop being occupied? It doesn't say on Wikipedia, it just says it was conquered without mentioning when inhabitants stopped living there.
 
I believe there were Jews still occupying it into the Middle Ages though I could be wrong.

Though doing some searching, I found this: http://www.angelfire.com/nt/Gilgamesh/parthian.html

His troops moved north and occupied Babylon and Seleucia probably sometime in 127 BC, when the Parthians were fighting nomadic invaders in the eastern part of their territory. His rule there must have been short, however, for the Parthian governor of Babylon and the north, Himerus, was back in Seleucia and Babylon by 126. Himerus could not have been a rebel, since he struck coins in the name of the Parthian rulers Phraates II and Artabanus II, both of whom were killed in fighting in eastern Iran. Himerus abused his power and is said to have oppressed the cities of Mesopotamia, plundering them and killing their inhabitants. Cuneiform documents from Babylon stop after this date, indicating that the city did not survive the depredations of Himerus.


So it seemed it stopped having any serious habitation after 126 BCE.
 
It's hard to say, as the city seems to have been abandoned one or two times (under Phartians, then Sassanids) then being reoccupied again before being totally deserted.

By the Xth century, there was still a small settlement named Babil in Arab, but no mention afterwards.
 
Alright, that works well for me... I might have it rebuilt in my TL since Ctesiphon is a) too Sassanid, and b) kinda wrecked from the Huns...
 
Babylon was an immense ruin, so large that tought its site wasn't forgotten historically, you had to wait the XXth century to have enough ressources dealing with.

The population living there made a speciality of seeling it, brick after brick.
Rebuilding a city there would ask for not only building something, but clean a large surface, repair or more like build irrigation canals from scratch (as the rivers bed moved), rebuild houses, etc.

The best you'll have would be the fundation of a brand new city that would use the ancient materials at disposals there.

If you really need another city to be taken from ashes, Seleukia would be a more sensible choice.
 

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as far as i am aware babylon ceased to effectivly exist sometime during the classical era
 
Babylon was an immense ruin, so large that tought its site wasn't forgotten historically, you had to wait the XXth century to have enough ressources dealing with.

The population living there made a speciality of seeling it, brick after brick.
Rebuilding a city there would ask for not only building something, but clean a large surface, repair or more like build irrigation canals from scratch (as the rivers bed moved), rebuild houses, etc.

The best you'll have would be the fundation of a brand new city that would use the ancient materials at disposals there.

If you really need another city to be taken from ashes, Seleukia would be a more sensible choice.

Gotcha. Thanks for the advice!
 
If I recall correctly, part of why Babylon was abandoned was because the Euphrates changed course - leaving it high and dry - and constantly re-dredging canals wasn't, for whatever reason, feasible.
 
think that was sporadic settlement by rural peasants or such. never really a functioning city per se after that

The OP asked for "when inhabitants stopped living there", not "when did it stop to be a functioning city".
It would be furthermore impossible to answer that as we have only indirect proofs for the late classical period; and as said, it's more than probably the city was abandoned more than one time, and was resettled the same while not as importantly than its glory days.

"Bābil appears to have been an administrative center of some importance in the last Sassanian period"*, implying therefore some sort of at least local importance before the Islamic conquest.

The place itself being mentioned as the place of a battle between Persians and Arabs, on the road to Ctesiphon , it's possible that you had at least a military presence in order to guard it.

It doesn't exactly seems to be limited for rural peasantry "and such".
 
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