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Hammurabi
(hä′mo̵̅o̅ rä′bē, ham′ə-)
fl. 18th cent. ; king of Babylon: a famous code of laws is attributed to him
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Babylonian king (1792-1750) who made Babylon the chief Mesopotamian kingdom and codified the laws of Mesopotamia and Sumeria.
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