<P> The short - lived 11th dynasty of the Kings of Babylon (6th century BC) is conventionally known to historians as the Chaldean Dynasty, although the last rulers, Nabonidus and his son Belshazzar, were from Assyria . </P> <P> These nomad Chaldeans settled in the far southeastern portion of Babylonia, chiefly on the left bank of the Euphrates . Though for a short time the name later commonly referred to the whole of southern Mesopotamia in Hebraic literature, this was a geographical and historical misnomer, as Chaldea proper was in fact only the plain in the far southeast formed by the deposits of the Euphrates and the Tigris, extending about four hundred miles along the course of these rivers, and averaging about a hundred miles in width . </P> <P> The names Chaldea and Chaldaea are latinizations of the Greek Khaldaía (Χαλδαία), a hellenization of Akkadian māt Kaldu or Kašdu . The name appears in Hebrew in the Bible as Kaśdim (כשדים) and in Aramaic as Kaldo (ܟܠܕܘ). Its inhabitants are called Chaldeans . The Hebrew word first appears in the Bible alongside Urfa as Arfa - ksad (ארפ ־ כשד), the Light of the Chaldeans (אוּר כַּשְׂדִּים), and as one of the five original Semitic nations of the Bible which include Lud, Elam, Ashur and Aram . </P> <P> Chaldea describes two separate territories . </P>

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