Babylon Governorate
Babylon Governorate or Babil Province is a governorate in central Iraq. It has an area of, The population in Babil for 2023 is 1,820,700. The provincial capital is the city of Hillah, which lies opposite the ancient city of Babylon, on the Euphrates river.
History
The ancient city of Babylon, in present-day Babylon Province was the capital of ancient Babylonia, situated on the Euphrates river south of Baghdad, Iraq.The city was occupied from the 3rd millennium BC but became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon. The sixth king of this dynasty was Hammurabi who made Babylon the capital of a vast empire and is best remembered for his code of laws.
The city peaked in pre-eminence when Nabopolassar and his successor and son Nebuchadnezzar II extended the Neo-Babylonian Empire over most of Western Asia.
In the year 1991, Babil Governorate was the center of a Shia uprising.