Chaldea, Chaldean

Facts

Chaldea was a region in southern Babylonia. The people who lived in this land were called Chaldeans.

The city of Ur, where Abraham was from, was located in Chaldea.
Around 600 BC, Chaldea became known as Babylonia.
A few years after that time, Jerusalem was captured and the Israelites were exiled to Babylonia.
Ten years after Jerusalem was captured, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple there.
The people living in Babylonia were still sometimes referred to as "Chaldeans."