Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Babylle'nii

by William Smith (1813-1893)

BABYLLE'NII (Βάβυλλήνιοι, Ptol. iv. 7. § 29), the name of a tribe which belonged to the hybrid population of the Regio Troglodytica, between the Nile and the Red Sea. They were seated between the easternmost boundary of the island Meroe and the Sinus Adulitanus.[ W. B. D. ]