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Babyllenii

Βαβυλλήνιοι

Eth. Babyllenii (Eth. Βαβυλλήνιοι, Ptol. 4.7.29), the name of a tribe which belonged to the hybrid population of the Regio Troglodytica, between the Nile and the Red Sea. They were seated between the easternmost boundary of the island Meroe and the Sinus Adulitanus.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.