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'"Chaldeans And its people Chaldea or Chaldaea"(from Greek Χαλδαία, Chaldaia; Akkadian māt Kaldu, Hebrew כשדים, Kaśdim ,Arabic كلدان‎, Kāldān) Chaldeans were a Semitic people and apparently of very pure blood. Their original seat may have been Syrian Desert,whence they migrated at an unknown period into the country of the sea-lands about the head of the Persian gulf. They seem to have appeared there at about the same time that the Arameans and the Sutu appeared in Babylonia. Though belonging to the same Semitic race, they are to be differentiated from the Aramean stock; and Sennacherib, for example, is careful in his inscriptions to distinguish them. When they came to possess the whole land their name became synonymous with Babylonian, and, though conquerors, they were speedily assimilated to Babylonian culture.