Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of

Babylon Babylon ( ) was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about south of modern-day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-s ...

and may refer to:

Arts and media

Written works

Books

* ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith * ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu * ''Babel'' (2017 manga), by Yūgo Ishikawa *''Babel'', a 1922 novel by

John Cournos John Cournos, born Ivan Grigorievich Korshun () (6 March 1881 – 27 August 1966), was an American writer and translator. Biography Cournos was born into a Russian Jewish family in Zhytomyr, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). His first language wa ...

*''Babel'', a 1969 novel by Alan Burns *''Babel'', a 2016 book by

Zygmunt Bauman Zygmunt Bauman (; ; 19 November 1925 – 9 January 2017) was a Polish–British sociologist and philosopher. He was driven out of the Polish People's Republic during the 1968 Polish political crisis and forced to give up his Polish citizenship. ...

and

Ezio Mauro Ezio Mauro (born 24 October 1948) is an Italian journalist. He was editor-in-chief of the newspaper ''la Repubblica'' from 1996 to 2016. Biography Mauro was born in Dronero, in the province of Cuneo. He started his career as a journalist, writ ...

*''Babel'', a 2018 book about linguistics by Gaston Dorren * '' Babel-17'', a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany * '' Babel, or the Necessity of Violence'', a 2022 novel by R. F. Kuang

Periodicals

* ''Babel'' (magazine), a magazine about linguistics * ''Babel'', a journal produced by the Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations * ''Babel'', a journal published by the

International Federation of Translators The Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs ( English: International Federation of Translators) is an international federation of associations of translators, interpreters and terminologists working in areas as diverse as literary, scientific ...

* ''Babel'' (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper

Film and television

Star Trek

* "Babel" (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''), an episode of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' * Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the ''Star Trek'' universe * " Babel One", an episode of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' * "

Journey to Babel "Journey to Babel" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek''. Written by D. C. Fontana and directed by Joseph Pevney, it was first broadcast on November 17, 1967. In the episod ...

", an episode of ''Star Trek'' (original series)

Other uses in film and television

* ''Babel'' (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu * ''Babel'' (1999 film), a 1999 film directed by Gérard Pullicino * ''Babel'' (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series * "Babel", an episode of '' Green Lantern: The Animated Series'' * "Babel", an episode of ''

Batman Beyond ''Batman Beyond'' (also known as ''Batman of the Future'' in Europe) is an American superhero animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, and serving as the sequel to both '' Batman: The Animated Series'' and '' The New Ba ...

'' * " The Sausages of Babel", Dutch TV-presenting trio

Music

Albums

* ''Babel'' (D*Note album), 1993 * ''Babel'' (Mumford & Sons album), a 2012 album by Mumford & Sons, or its title track (see below) * ''Babel'' (soundtrack), by Gustavo Santaolalla, the soundtrack album from the 2006 film * ''Babel'', an album by German electronic musician

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers ...

, 1987 * ''Babel'', an album by Hughes de Courson, 2008 * ''Babel'', an album by Gabriel Yacoub, 1997 * ''Babel'', an album by

Philip Catherine Philip Catherine (born 27 October 1942) is a Belgian jazz rock guitarist. Biography Philip Catherine was born in London, England, to an English mother and Belgian father, and was raised in Brussels, Belgium. His grandfather was a violinist i ...

, 1980

Songs

* "Babel" (song), the title track of the album ''Babel'' by Mumford & Sons * "Babel", a song from the album ''

Heligoland Heligoland (; , ; Heligolandic Frisian: , , Mooring Frisian: , ) is a small archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were historically possessions of Denmark, then became possessions of the United Kingdom from 1807 to 1890. Since 1890, the ...

'' by Massive Attack

Other uses in music

Babel Label Babel Label is a jazz record label founded in 1994 by Oliver Weindling that specialises in British jazz, particularly the London scene. It released more than 130 recordings in its first 20 years, two of which were nominated for the Mercury Pri ...

, a British record label * ''Babel'' (Stravinsky), a 1944 cantata

In other media

* Babel (radio station), Uruguay * ''Babel'', a Turbo CD role-playing game released by

Nippon Telenet was a Japanese Video game developer, video game and software developer founded in October 1983 by Kazuyuki Fukushima. The company had several video game divisions including: Wolf Team, Laser Soft, Renovation Game (Japanese publishing division), ...

Places

* Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales * Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran *

Babel Island The Babel Island, part of the Babel Group within the Furneaux Group, is a granite island, located in Bass Strait, lying off the east coast of Flinders Island, Tasmania, south of Victoria, Australia. The privately owned island was named by Matt ...

, Tasmania, Australia * Babel River, Alaska, United States * Bangka Belitung, a province in Indonesia, abbreviated Babel *

Babil Governorate Babylon Governorate or Babil Province ( ''Muḥāfaẓa Bābil'') is a governorates of Iraq, governorate in central Iraq. It has an area of , The population in Babil for 2023 is 1,820,700. The provincial capital is the city of Al Hillah, Hillah, ...

, in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel" * Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada * Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada

Science and technology

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, a minor planet *

Babel (protocol) The Babel routing protocol is a distance-vector routing protocol for Internet Protocol packet-switched networks that is designed to be robust and efficient on both wireless mesh networks and wired networks. Babel is described in RFC 8966. Babel ...

, a routing protocol for wired, wireless, and hybrid IP mesh networks * Babel (transcompiler), a JavaScript transcompiler * GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software * OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software

Other

* Babel (restaurant), in Budapest, Hungary * Babel (surname) * Babels, a volunteer translators network * Bobole, a

Coahuiltecan The Coahuiltecan were various small, autonomous bands of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native Americans who inhabited the Rio Grande valley in what is now northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. The various Coahuiltecan groups were hunter ga ...

tribe, may be spelled Babel