- Babylonians
Babylonians — a polisonym, politonym, and ethnotoponym, the inhabitants of Babylon, one of the most ancient states located in Mesopotamia, as well as the inhabitants of the city of Babylon on the Euphrates River.
The Babylonians formed in the 2nd millennium BC from the descendants of the Sumerians, Akkadians, and part of the Amorites. In the second half of the 2nd millennium BC, the Kassites were assimilated by the Babylonians; in the 1st millennium BC, a significant number of Chaldean population merged into the composition of the Babylonians.
It is believed that the ancient Babylonians in southern Mesopotamia belonged mainly to haplogroups J1, J2, and T, and to a lesser extent, E1b1b and G. [Maciamo Hay 2008]
VARIANT NAMES: Latin Babylonii, Greek Βαβυλώνιοι.
Sources:
Ethnogenesis of the Abkhazians. D.A. Arshba, 2015