Babylon

Babylon (Arabic: بَابِل‎, Bābil) was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th centuries BC. The city was built on the Euphrates river and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods. Babylon was originally a small Akkadian town, dating from the period of the Akkadian Empire c. 2300 BC.

Etymology

Arabic بَابِل‎ "babil", from Latin Babylōn, from Ancient Greek Βαβυλών (Babulṓn), from Sumerian-Akkadian (bābili - literally "Gate of God").

Babylon - Akkadian: Bābili(m); Aramaic: בבל, Babel; Arabic: بَابِل‎, Bābil; Hebrew: בָּבֶל‎, Bavel; Classical Syriac: ܒܒܠ‎, Bāwēl.

In The Quran

(2:102) They followed what the devils recited regarding Solomon's kingship. Solomon did not reject, but it was the devils that rejected by teaching people magic and what was sent down on the two angels in Babylon (Arabic: بِبَابِلَ, bi-bābila), Haroot and Maroot. They would not teach anyone until they would say, "We are a test, so do not be unappreciative!" Thus, they teach what can separate a person from his mate; but they cannot harm anyone except by God's permission. They learn what harms them and does not benefit them, and they have known that he who purchases such a thing has no place in the Hereafter. Miserable indeed is what they traded themselves with; if only they knew!