Babel

Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to:

Tower of Babel

• Tower of Babel, Biblical account
• Tower of Babel (disambiguation), various artistic and written works deriving from the Biblical account

Library of Babel

• The Library of Babel, a short story by Jorge Luis Borges
• The Library of Babel (website), a website created by Jonathan Basile

Geography

• Babel, Carmarthenshire, a village in Wales
• Babel, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
• Babel Island, Tasmania, Australia
• Babel River, Alaska, United States
• Babel, an abbreviation for Bangka Belitung, a province in Indonesia
• Babil Governorate, in Iraq (named after Babylon) is sometimes transliterated as "Babel"
• Mount Babel (Alberta), Canada
• Mount Babel (Quebec), Canada

People

• Babel (surname)
• Babels, a volunteer translators network

Published works

• Babel (book), by Patti Smith
• Babel, a novel by John Cournos 1922
• Babel, a novel by Alan Burns (author) 1969
• Babel, a book by Zygmunt Bauman and Ezio Mauro 2016
• 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
• Babel (newspaper), an Iraqi newspaper
• Babel-17, a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany

Film, television and entertainment

• Babel (film), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Babel (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
• Babel (radio station), Uruguay

Star Trek

• "Babel" (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Babel (planet), a neutrally aligned planet in the fictional Star Trek universe
• "Babel One", an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• "Journey To Babel", an episode of Star Trek (the original series)

Technology and science

• 5808 Babel', a minor planet
• Babel (protocol), a routing protocol for wired, wireless, and hybrid IP mesh networks
• Babel (transcompiler), a JavaScript transcompiler
• Babel, a Turbo CD role-playing game released by Nippon Telenet
• Babel Fish (website), an automated bilingual dictionary lookup service for words and phrases
• Babel Middleware, open-source middleware for scientific computing
• GPSBabel, GPS file format conversion software
• OpenBabel, open-source chemical modeling software

Music

• Babel Label, a British record label
• Babel Fish (band), a Norwegian band
• Babel, a 1944 cantata for reciter, male chorus and orchestra by Igor Stravinsky

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, 1987
• Babel, an album by Hughes de Courson, 2008
• Babel, an album by Gabriel Yacoub, 1997
• Babel, an album by Philip Catherine, 1980

Songs

• "Babel" (song), the title track of the album Babel by Mumford & Sons
• "Babel", a song from the album Heligoland by Massive Attack

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Babel
• All pages with titles containing Babel
• Bab (disambiguation)
• Babbel, an online language learning platform
• Babble (disambiguation)
• Bable, an alternative name of the Asturian language of Spain
• Babol, a city in Iran