Ctesiphon, the Glossary
Ctesiphon (𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn; تیسفون; Κτησιφῶν,; ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢThomas A. Carlson et al., “Ctesiphon — ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified July 28, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/58.) was an ancient Mesopotamian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about southeast of present-day Baghdad.[1]
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- History of Baghdad Governorate
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Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Achaemenid Empire
The Achaemenid Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the Persian Empire or First Persian Empire (𐎧𐏁𐏂), was an ancient Iranian empire founded by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid dynasty in 550 BC.
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Al-Mada'in
Al-Mada'in (المدائن,; מחוזא Māḥozā) was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. Ctesiphon and al-Mada'in are former populated places in Iraq and Sasanian cities.
Al-Mansur
Abū Jaʿfar ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad al-Manṣūr (أبو جعفر عبد الله بن محمد المنصور‎; 95 AH – 158 AH/714 CE – 6 October 775 CE) usually known simply as by his laqab al-Manṣūr (المنصور) was the second Abbasid caliph, reigning from 136 AH to 158 AH (754 CE – 775 CE) succeeding his brother al-Saffah.
Ali
Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
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Antiquity (journal)
Antiquity is an academic journal dedicated to the subject of archaeology.
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Apamea, Syria
Apamea (Ἀπάμεια, Apameia; آفاميا, Afamia), on the right bank of the Orontes River, was an ancient Greek and Roman city.
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Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Aramaic
Aramaic (ˀərāmiṯ; arāmāˀiṯ) is a Northwest Semitic language that originated in the ancient region of Syria and quickly spread to Mesopotamia, the southern Levant, southeastern Anatolia, Eastern Arabia and the Sinai Peninsula, where it has been continually written and spoken in different varieties for over three thousand years.
Arameans
The Arameans, or Aramaeans (𐤀𐤓𐤌𐤉𐤀,,; אֲרַמִּים; Ἀραμαῖοι; ܐܪ̈ܡܝܐ), were a tribal Semitic people in the ancient Near East, first documented in historical sources from the late 12th century BC.
Ardashir I
Ardashir I (𐭠𐭥𐭲𐭧𐭱𐭲𐭥; transl), also known as Ardashir the Unifier (180–242 AD), was the founder of the Persian Sasanian Empire.
Armenia
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia.
Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC. Ctesiphon and Assyria are ancient Mesopotamia.
Assyrian Church of the East
The Assyrian Church of the East (ACOE), sometimes called the Church of the East and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (HACACE), is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East.
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Assyrian people
Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.
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Avidius Cassius
Gaius Avidius Cassius (130 – July 175 AD) was a Syrian Roman general and usurper.
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Babai of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
Babai, also Babaeus, was Catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon and Patriarch of the Church of the East from 497 to 503.
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Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Ctesiphon and Babylon are Archaeological sites in Iraq and former populated places in Iraq.
Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran. Ctesiphon and Baghdad are Populated places along the Silk Road.
Baghdad Governorate
Baghdad Governorate (محافظة بغداد Muḥāfaẓät Baġdād), also known as the Baghdad Province, is the capital governorate of Iraq.
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Bahram Chobin
Bahrām Chōbīn (بهرامچوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI (r. 590–591).
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Battle of al-Qadisiyyah
The Battle of al-Qadisiyyah (Maʿrakah al-Qādisīyah; Nabard-e Qâdisiyeh) was an armed conflict which took place in 636 CE between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sasanian Empire.
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Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)
The Battle of Ctesiphon (Turkish: Selman-ı Pak Muharebesi) was fought in November 1915 by the British Empire, against the Ottoman Empire, within the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I. Indian Expeditionary Force D, mostly made up of Indian units and under the command of Gen.
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Battle of Ctesiphon (363)
The Battle of Ctesiphon took place on 29 May 363 between the armies of Roman Emperor Julian and an army of the Sasanian Empire (during Shapur II's reign) outside the walls of the Persian capital Ctesiphon. Ctesiphon and Battle of Ctesiphon (363) are ancient Mesopotamia.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Book of Ezra
The Book of Ezra is a book of the Hebrew Bible which formerly included the Book of Nehemiah in a single book, commonly distinguished in scholarship as Ezra–Nehemiah.
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Boran
Boran (also spelled Buran, Middle Persian) was Sasanian queen (banbishn) of Iran from 630 to 632, with an interruption of some months.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centered in Constantinople during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Carus
Marcus Aurelius Carus (c. 222 – July or August 283) was Roman emperor from 282 to 283.
Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.
Caspians
The Caspians (کاسپیها, Kaspyn; Κάσπιοι, Káspioi; Aramaic: ܟܣܦܝ, kspy; Կասպք, Kaspk’; Caspi, Caspiani) were a people of antiquity who dwelt along the southwestern shores of the Caspian Sea, in the region known as Caspiane.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Church of the East
The Church of the East (''ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā''.) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church or the Nestorian Church, is one of three major branches of Nicene Eastern Christianity that arose from the Christological controversies of the 5th and 6th centuries, alongside the Miaphisite churches (which came to be known as the Oriental Orthodox Churches) and the Chalcedonian Church (whose Eastern branch would later become the Eastern Orthodox Church).
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Dara (Mesopotamia)
Dara or Daras (Turkish: Dara Antik Kenti; Kurdish: Darê; Δάρας; ܕܪܐ) was an important East Roman fortress city in northern Mesopotamia on the border with the Sassanid Empire.
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Dastagird
Dastagird (also spelled as Dastgerd, Dastigird and Daskara), was an ancient Sasanian city in present-day Iraq, and was close to its capital, Ctesiphon. Ctesiphon and Dastagird are former populated places in Iraq and Sasanian cities.
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft
The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society), abbreviated DOG, is a German voluntary association based in Berlin dedicated to the study of the Near East.
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Ecbatana
Ecbatana (translit or, literally "the place of gathering" according to Darius the Great's inscription at Bisotun; هگمتانه; 𐭠𐭧𐭬𐭲𐭠𐭭; translit; 𒆳𒀀𒃵𒋫𒉡|translit. Ctesiphon and Ecbatana are Parthian cities.
Galerius
Galerius Valerius Maximianus (Greek: Γαλέριος; 258 – May 311) was Roman emperor from 305 to 311.
Ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads.
Gotarzes I
Gotarzes I (𐭂𐭅𐭕𐭓𐭆 Gōdarz) was king of the Parthian Empire from 91 BC to 87 or 80 BC.
Greeks
The Greeks or Hellenes (Έλληνες, Éllines) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with many Greek communities established around the world..
Hadrian
Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138.
Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Mediterranean history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the Roman conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt the following year, which eliminated the last major Hellenistic kingdom.
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Heraclius
Heraclius (Hērákleios; – 11 February 641) was Byzantine emperor from 610 to 641.
Herodian
Herodian or Herodianus (Ἡρωδιανός) of Syria, sometimes referred to as "Herodian of Antioch" (c. 170 – c. 240), was a minor Roman civil servant who wrote a colourful history in Greek titled History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus (τῆς μετὰ Μάρκον βασιλείας ἱστορία) in eight books covering the years 180 to 238.
House of Ispahbudhan
The House of Ispahbudhan or the House of Aspahbadh was one of the seven Parthian clans of the Sasanian Empire.
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House of Mihran
The House of Mihrān or House of Mehrān (Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭨𐭥𐭠𐭭; new Persian: مهران), was a leading Iranian noble family (šahrdārān), one of the Seven Great Houses of the Sassanid Persian Empire which claimed descent from the earlier Arsacid dynasty.
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Hyrcania
Hyrcania (Ὑρκανία Hyrkanía, Old Persian: 𐎺𐎼𐎣𐎠𐎴 Varkâna,Lendering (1996) Middle Persian: 𐭢𐭥𐭫𐭢𐭠𐭭 Gurgān, Akkadian: Urqananu) is a historical region composed of the land south-east of the Caspian Sea in modern-day Iran and Turkmenistan, bound in the south by the Alborz mountain range and the Kopet Dag in the east.
Iranian peoples
The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Jews
The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.
Jizya
Jizya (jizya), or jizyah, is a tax historically levied on dhimmis, that is, protected non-Muslim subjects of a state governed by Islamic law.
John of Ephesus
John of Ephesus (or of Asia) (Greek: Ίωάννης ό Έφέσιος, Classical Syriac: ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܐܦܣܘܣ, c. 507 – c. 588 AD) was a leader of the early Syriac Orthodox Church in the sixth century and one of the earliest and the most important historians to write in Syriac.
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society is an academic journal which publishes articles on the history, archaeology, literature, language, religion and art of South Asia, the Middle East (together with North Africa and Ethiopia), Central Asia, East Asia and South-East Asia.
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Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Kavad II
Kavad II (Kawād) was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran briefly in 628.
Khosrow I
Khosrow I (also spelled Khosrau, Khusro or Chosroes; 𐭧𐭥𐭮𐭫𐭥𐭣𐭩; New Persian: خسرو), traditionally known by his epithet of Anushirvan (انوشيروان "the Immortal Soul"), was the Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 531 to 579.
Khosrow II
Khosrow II (spelled Chosroes II in classical sources; Husrō and Khosrau), commonly known as Khosrow Parviz (New Persian: خسرو پرویز, "Khosrow the Victorious"), is considered to be the last great Sasanian king (shah) of Iran, ruling from 590 to 628, with an interruption of one year.
List of cities of the ancient Near East
The earliest cities in history were in the ancient Near East, an area covering roughly that of the modern Middle East: its history began in the 4th millennium BC and ended, depending on the interpretation of the term, either with the conquest by the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th century BC or with that by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC.
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List of largest cities throughout history
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the Ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
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List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
The Patriarch of the Church of the East (also known as Patriarch of Babylon, Patriarch of the East, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the East or the Grand Metropolitan of the East) is the patriarch, or leader and head bishop (sometimes referred to as Catholicos or universal leader) of the Church of the East.
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Manichaean script
The Manichaean script is an abjad-based writing system rooted in the Semitic family of alphabets and associated with the spread of Manichaeism from southwest to central Asia and beyond, beginning in the third century CE.
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Manichaeism
Manichaeism (in New Persian آیینِ مانی) is a former major world religion,R.
Merv
Merv (Merw, Мерв, مرو; translit), also known as the Merve Oasis, was a major Iranian city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, near today's Mary, Turkmenistan. Ctesiphon and Merv are Parthian cities, Populated places along the Silk Road and Sasanian cities.
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Ctesiphon and Mesopotamia are ancient Mesopotamia.
Middle Persian
Middle Persian, also known by its endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form, is a Western Middle Iranian language which became the literary language of the Sasanian Empire.
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Mithridates I of Parthia
Mithridates I (also spelled Mithradates I or Mihrdad I; 𐭌𐭄𐭓𐭃𐭕 Mihrdāt), also known as Mithridates I the Great, was king of the Parthian Empire from 165 BC to 132 BC.
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Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
The Museum of Islamic Art (Museum für Islamische Kunst) is located in the Pergamon Museum and is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Muslim conquest of Persia
The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military campaign undertaken by the Rashidun Caliphate between 632 and 654. Ctesiphon and Muslim conquest of Persia are book burnings and Destroyed libraries.
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Narseh
Narseh (also spelled Narses or Narseus; 𐭭𐭥𐭮𐭧𐭩) was the seventh Sasanian King of Kings of Iran from 293 to 303.
New Persian
New Persian (translit), also known as Modern Persian (فارسی نوین) is the current stage of the Persian language spoken since the 8th to 9th centuries until now in Greater Iran and surroundings.
Nisa, Turkmenistan
Nisa (Νῖσος, Νίσα, Νίσαιον; Nusaý; also Parthaunisa) was an ancient settlement of the Parthians, located near the of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 18 km west of the city center. Ctesiphon and Nisa, Turkmenistan are Parthian cities.
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Nobility
Nobility is a social class found in many societies that have an aristocracy.
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
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One Thousand and One Nights
One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.
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Opis
Opis (Akkadian Upî or Upija/Upiya; Ὦπις) was an ancient Near East city near the Tigris, not far from modern Baghdad. Ctesiphon and Opis are Archaeological sites in Iraq and former populated places in Iraq.
Orodes II
Orodes II (also spelled Urud II; 𐭅𐭓𐭅𐭃 Wērōd), was King of Kings of the Parthian Empire from 57 BC to 37 BC.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
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Parthian Empire
The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, was a major Iranian political and cultural power centered in ancient Iran from 247 BC to 224 AD.
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Parthian language
The Parthian language, also known as Arsacid Pahlavi and Pahlawānīg, is an extinct ancient Northwestern Iranian language once spoken in Parthia, a region situated in present-day northeastern Iran and Turkmenistan.
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Persians
The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.
Piruz Khosrow
Piruz Khosrow (Middle Persian: Pērōz Khusraw), also known as Piruzan or Firuzan, was a powerful Persian aristocrat who was the leader of the Parsig (Persian) faction that controlled much of the affairs of the Sasanian Empire during the Sasanian civil war of 628-632.
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Qazvin
Qazvin (قزوین) is a city in the Central District of Qazvin County, Qazvin province, Iran, serving as capital of the province, the county, and the district. Ctesiphon and Qazvin are Sasanian cities.
Qumis, Iran
Qumis (قومس; Middle Persian 𐭪𐭥𐭬𐭩𐭮 Kōmis), also known as Hecatompylos (Ἑκατόμπυλος, in صددروازه, Saddarvazeh) was an ancient city which was the capital of the Arsacid dynasty by 200 BCE. Ctesiphon and Qumis, Iran are Parthian cities, Populated places along the Silk Road and Sasanian cities.
Rachae
Rachae or Rachæ was an ancient town near Ctesiphon, in Sittacene, Assyria. Ctesiphon and Rachae are former populated places in Iraq.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
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Roman–Parthian Wars
The Roman–Parthian Wars (54 BC – 217 AD) were a series of conflicts between the Parthian Empire and the Roman Republic and Roman Empire. Ctesiphon and Roman–Parthian Wars are ancient Mesopotamia.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas
Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhri (translit) was an Arab Muslim commander.
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Salman Pak
Salman Pak (سَلْمَان بَاك, سلمان پاک|Solomon the Pure) is a city located approximately south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris.
Samarkand
Samarkand or Samarqand (Uzbek and Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central Asia. Ctesiphon and Samarkand are Populated places along the Silk Road and Sasanian cities.
Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries. Ctesiphon and Sasanian Empire are ancient Mesopotamia.
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Sasanian family tree
This is a family tree of the Sasanian emperors, their ancestors, and Sasanian princes/princesses.
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School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
The School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (sometimes School of Seleucia) was a theological school of the Church of the East located in the western half of the city of Seleucia-Ctesiphon on the right bank of the Tigris.
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Scythians
The Scythians or Scyths (but note Scytho- in composition) and sometimes also referred to as the Pontic Scythians, were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people who had migrated during the 9th to 8th centuries BC from Central Asia to the Pontic Steppe in modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia, where they remained established from the 7th century BC until the 3rd century BC.
Seleucia
Seleucia (Σελεύκεια), also known as or or Seleucia ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city, located on the west bank of the Tigris River within the present-day Baghdad Governorate in Iraq. Ctesiphon and Seleucia are Archaeological sites in Iraq, former populated places in Iraq, history of Baghdad Governorate, Parthian cities, Populated places along the Silk Road, Sasanian cities and Twin cities.
Septimius Severus
Lucius Septimius Severus (11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was a Roman politician who served as emperor from 193 to 211.
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Severus Alexander
Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – March 235), also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235.
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Shahrbaraz
Shahrbaraz (also spelled Shahrvaraz or Shahrwaraz; New Persian: شهربراز), was shah (king) of the Sasanian Empire from 27 April 630 to 9 June 630.
Siege of Ctesiphon (637)
The siege of Ctesiphon took place from January to March, 637 between the forces of Sasanian Empire and Rashidun Caliphate.
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Siege of Kut
The Siege of Kut Al Amara (7 December 1915 – 29 April 1916), also known as the First Battle of Kut, was the besieging of an 8,000 strong British Army garrison in the town of Kut, south of Baghdad, by the Ottoman Army.
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Sogdian language
The Sogdian language was an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Central Asian region of Sogdia (capital: Samarkand; other chief cities: Panjakent, Fergana, Khujand, and Bukhara), located in modern-day Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; it was also spoken by some Sogdian immigrant communities in ancient China.
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Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Syriac alphabet
The Syriac alphabet (ܐܠܦ ܒܝܬ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ) is a writing system primarily used to write the Syriac language since the 1st century AD.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Taq Kasra
Tāq Kasrā (translit), also transcribed as Taq-i Kisra or Taq-e Kesra (طاق کسری, romanized: tâğe kasrâ) or Ayvān-e Kesrā (translit, meaning Iwan of Khosrow) are the remains of a Sasanian-era Persian monument, dated to c. the 3rd to 6th centuries, which is sometimes called the Arch of Ctesiphon. Ctesiphon and Taq Kasra are Archaeological sites in Iraq.
Tigris
The Tigris (see below) is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates.
Trajan
Trajan (born Marcus Ulpius Traianus, adopted name Caesar Nerva Traianus; 18 September 53) was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian: Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO) is a public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy.
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Valashabad
Valashabad (also spelled as Valakhshkert, Valakhshgerd and Valakhshkard), known in Greek sources as Vologesocerta, and in Arabic sources as Sabat (ساباط), was an ancient city in present-day Iraq, and formed a suburb of Ctesiphon, the capital of the Parthian Empire and their successors, the Sasanian Empire. Ctesiphon and Valashabad are former populated places in Iraq, Parthian cities and Sasanian cities.
Veh-Ardashir
Veh-Ardashir (also spelled as Beh-Ardashir and Weh-Ardashir), was an ancient Sasanian city in present-day Iraq, and formed a suburb of their capital, Ctesiphon. Ctesiphon and Veh-Ardashir are former populated places in Iraq and Sasanian cities.
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Weh Antiok Khosrow
Wēh Antīōk Khosrow (Middle Persian: wyḥ ʾntywk ḥwslwd; "Khosrow's Better Antioch", literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"),Beate Dignas, Engelbert Winter: Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity. Ctesiphon and Weh Antiok Khosrow are former populated places in Iraq, history of Baghdad Governorate and Sasanian cities.
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White Palace (Ctesiphon)
The White Palace was the main residence of the Sasanian King of Kings in the capital of Ctesiphon (about southeast of Baghdad), most likely founded by the second Sasanian monarch Shapur I.
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Yaqut al-Hamawi
Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries).
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion.
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See also
120s BC establishments
Book burnings
- 2023 Quran burnings in Sweden
- Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
- An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England and Ireland
- Aulus Cremutius Cordus
- Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!
- Bonfire of the vanities
- Book burning
- Book burning at Ephesus
- Book burnings in Chile
- Burning of Jaffna Public Library
- Burning of books and burying of scholars
- Conseil scolaire catholique Providence
- Ctesiphon
- Diego de Landa
- Disputation of Paris
- Een Bloemhof
- Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros
- Gershon ben Eliezer Yiddels
- How to Read Donald Duck
- Itzcoatl
- List of book-burning incidents
- Loch Morar
- Maya codices
- Muslim conquest of Persia
- National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Nazi book burnings
- Oriental Institute in Sarajevo
- Persepolis
- Pink Peacock
- Riddles in Hinduism
- Sázava Monastery
- Sack of Louvain
- Sikh Reference Library
- The Gods Laugh on Mondays
- The Guide for the Perplexed
- Tlacaelel
- Vijećnica
- Wartburg Festival
- Załuski Library
Destroyed libraries
- Ctesiphon
- Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
- Königsberg Public Library
- Königsberg State and University Library
- Krasiński Library
- List of destroyed libraries
- Loch Morar
- Muslim conquest of Persia
- Persepolis
- Sázava Monastery
- Sikh Reference Library
- Załuski Library
History of Baghdad Governorate
- 13 December 2013 Iraq attacks
- 13 June 2012 Iraq attacks
- 16 August 2012 Iraq attacks
- 19 March 2013 Iraq attacks
- 20 March 2012 Iraq attacks
- 2009 Baghdad governorate election
- 2013 Baghdad governorate election
- 2016 Taji gas plant attack
- 2020 Camp Taji attacks
- 21 September 2013 Iraq attacks
- 23 February 2012 Iraq attacks
- Action of Khan Baghdadi
- Battle of Suq al Ghazi
- Ctesiphon
- Dur-Kurigalzu
- February 2001 airstrike in Iraq
- History of Baghdad
- July 2013 Iraq attacks
- Seleucia
- Shaduppum
- Sippar
- Sippar-Amnanum
- Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2020
- Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center
- Weh Antiok Khosrow
Parthian cities
- Amol
- Artemita
- Asaak
- Charax, Rhagiana
- Ctesiphon
- Dura-Europos
- Ecbatana
- Ganzak
- Gonabad
- Hatra
- Isfahan
- Kashmar
- Merv
- Nahavand
- Nisa, Turkmenistan
- Qumis, Iran
- Rabana-Merquly
- Ray, Iran
- Seleucia
- Susa
- Valashabad
- Zenodotion
Places in Shahnameh
- Amol
- Balkh
- Battle of Rostam and Esfandiyār
- Ctesiphon
- Hamavaran
- Hara Berezaiti
- House of Goudarz
- House of Nowzar
- House of Viseh
- Iran (Shahnameh)
- Istakhr
- Kabul
- List of places in Shahnameh
- Mazandaran (Shahnameh)
- Mount Damavand
- Sistan
- Turan
- Zabulistan
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctesiphon
Also known as Cestiphon, Ctephion, Ktesiphon, Taisafun, Taysafun, Κτησιφῶν.
, Iranian peoples, Iraq, Jews, Jizya, John of Ephesus, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Judaism, Kavad II, Khosrow I, Khosrow II, List of cities of the ancient Near East, List of largest cities throughout history, List of patriarchs of the Church of the East, Manichaean script, Manichaeism, Merv, Mesopotamia, Middle Persian, Mithridates I of Parthia, Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, Muslim conquest of Persia, Narseh, New Persian, Nisa, Turkmenistan, Nobility, Old Testament, One Thousand and One Nights, Opis, Orodes II, Ottoman Empire, Parthian Empire, Parthian language, Persians, Piruz Khosrow, Qazvin, Qumis, Iran, Rachae, Roman Empire, Roman–Parthian Wars, Rome, Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, Salman Pak, Samarkand, Sasanian Empire, Sasanian family tree, School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, Scythians, Seleucia, Septimius Severus, Severus Alexander, Shahrbaraz, Siege of Ctesiphon (637), Siege of Kut, Sogdian language, Strabo, Syriac alphabet, Talmud, Taq Kasra, Tigris, Trajan, Umayyad Caliphate, United Kingdom, University of Turin, Valashabad, Veh-Ardashir, Weh Antiok Khosrow, White Palace (Ctesiphon), Yaqut al-Hamawi, Zoroastrianism.