1 Jan 539 Jahr v. Chr. - Cyrus the Great Conquered the Babylonians; Jewish Return From exile

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After the Babylonian conquest of the Kingdom of Judah in the sixth century B.C., Nebuchadnezzar II took thousands of Jews from the city of Jerusalem and held them captive in Babylon for more than half a century.

The Neo-Babylonian Empire, like the earlier Babylonia, was short-lived.

In 539 B.C., less than a century after its founding, the legendary Persian king Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon. The fall of Babylon was complete when the empire came under Persian control.

Many Judeans returned to Jerusalem after the Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great’s Persian forces. Some stayed, and a Jewish community flourished there for more than 2,000 years. Many relocated to the newly created Jewish state of Israel in the 1950s.

The great King Cyrus was widely portrayer in a positive light in Jewish literature for his bringing freedom to captured Jewish people and for sponsoring the rebuilding of the Temple

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Claude Audran II, Cyrus chassant le sanglier, 1678, Mural, Château de Versailles, salon de Diane, accessed October 24, 2020, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Versailles,_salon_de_Diane,_Cyrus_chassant_le_sanglier,_Claude_Audran_II.jpg.

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