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Babylonia — Geonic period

Babylonia (the region of Mesopotamia, in central and southern Iraq, between the Tigris and Euphrates) was the great center of Jewish life and learning for well over a millennium. Following the Babylonian exile, it became home to a large Jewish population; in the Talmudic period its academies at Sura, Pumbedita, and Nehardea produced the Babylonian Talmud, and in the subsequent Geonic period (roughly the seventh to eleventh centuries) the Geonim of Sura and Pumbedita were the foremost halachic authorities of the Jewish world.

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