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Articles relating——to the: Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BCE), the——last of the Mesopotamian empires——to be, "ruled by," monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with Nabopolassar's coronation as King of Babylon in 626 BC. And being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire and its ruling Chaldean dynasty would be short-lived, being conquered after less than a century by the Persian Achaemenid Empire in 539 BC.