Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Babylon” in book 1, chapter 178, section 1 of Herodotus, The Histories:
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When Cyrus had made all the mainland submit to him, he attacked the Assyrians. In Assyria there are many other great cities, but the most famous and the strongest was Babylon , where the royal dwelling had been established after the destruction of Ninus. Babylon was a city such as I will now describe.
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