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Ctesiphon (/ ˈ t ɛ s ɪ f ɒ n / TESS-if-on; Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn; Persian: تیسفون; Greek: Κτησιφῶν, Attic Greek: [ktɛːsipʰɔ̂ːn]; Syriac: ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ) was an ancient Iranian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of present-day ...
- Parthian, Sasanian, Umayyad, Abbasid
- Mesopotamia
- c. 120 BC
Mar 22, 2024 · Ctesiphon, ancient city located on the left (northeast) bank of the Tigris River about 20 miles (32 km) southeast of modern Baghdad, in east-central Iraq. It served as the winter capital of the Parthian empire and later of the Sāsānian empire.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 20, 2020 · Ctesiphon was an ancient city and trade center on the east bank of the Tigris River founded during the reign of Mithridates I (the Great, 171-132 BCE). It is best known in the modern day for the single-span arch, Taq Kasra, which is the most impressive aspect of the city's ruins.
- Joshua J. Mark
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For more than 800 years, Ctesiphon flourished as a royal capital of the last two ancient Near Eastern dynasties, the Parthians and the Sasanians, until Muslim armies conquered the city in 637 A.D. Located on the east bank of the Tigris River, approximately 20 miles (30 km) southeast of modern Baghdad in Iraq, Ctesiphon’s strategic location as ...
Ctesiphon is located on the east bank of the Tigris River about 20 miles (32 km) south of modern-day Baghdad in Iraq. The city was an important capital of the Parthian (247 B.C.–224 A.D.) and Sasanian (224–651 A.D.) empires, and is famous in particular for the late Sasanian palace called the Taq-i Kisra. The existing palace arch of the ...
May 18, 2018 · Ctesiphon (tĕs´Ĭfŏn´, tē´sĬ–), ruined ancient city, 20 mi (32 km) SE of Baghdad, Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris opposite Seleucia and at the mouth of the Diyala River. After 129 BC it was the winter residence of the Parthian kings. Ctesiphon grew rapidly and was of renowned splendor.
Ctesiphon was an ancient Iranian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of present-day Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras for over eight hundred years.
