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en-wikipedia-org-2792		Babylonian revolts (484 BC) - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5161	377	63	The Babylonian revolts of 484 BC were revolts of two rebel kings of Babylon, Bel-shimanni (Akkadian: Bêl-šimânni)[1] and Shamash-eriba (Akkadian: Šamaš-eriba),[1] against Xerxes I, king of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. The most important evidence are contemporary Babylonian documents that date themselves to the reign of the rebel kings of 484 BC; Bel-shimanni and Shamash-eriba, confirming the existence of the rebels, their names, and their revolt against Persian rule. As Babylonian tablets do not record years in relation to anything other than the first year of a king,[13] the tablets dated to the reigns of Bel-shimanni and Shamash-eriba do not in of themselves provide enough evidence to determine when their revolts took place. Though both fought against the Persians, Waerzeggers speculated in 2018 that they, as rival claimants, might also have fought against each other.[14] As the ruler of Sippar, Shamash-eriba's revolt initially gained ground in northern Babylonia whereas Bel-shimanni power-base was south of Babylon, in Borsippa and Dilbat.[1] Nothing is known of the background of either of the rebel leaders.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2792.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2792.txt