Seleucia-Ctesiphon
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'''Al-Mada'in' (, ; Māḥozā''; ) was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire. The city's name was used by Arabs as a synonym for the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, in a tradition that continued after the Arab conquest of Iran.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Has part
- Seleucia
- Country
- Buyid dynasty
- Located in
- Asuristan
- Founded by
- Shapur II
- Image
- Ctesiphon, Iraq, 1932.jpg
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- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Salman Pak
- described by source
- Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Foundation and constitution
- Sasanian period
- Rashidun and Umayyad period
- Abbasid period
- Buyid period
- Seljuq period and Abbasid insurgency
- Mongol, Jalairid, Kara Koyunlu, Timurid, and Aq Qoyunlu period
- Safavid and Ottoman period
- Population and religion
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
'''Al-Mada'in' (, ; Māḥozā''; ) was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire. The city's name was used by Arabs as a synonym for the Sasanian capital of Ctesiphon, in a tradition that continued after the Arab conquest of Iran.
== Foundation and constitution == According to myth, al-Mada'in was constructed by the legendary Iranian kings Tahmuras or Hushang, who named it Kardbandad. The city was then later rebuilt by the legendary Iranian king Zab, the Macedonian king Alexander the Great (r. 356–323 BCE) and the Sasanian emperor Shapur II (r. 309–379 CE). According to another folklore, the names of five (or seven) cities that al-Mada'in comprised were Aspanbur, Veh-Ardashir, Hanbu Shapur, Darzanidan, Veh Jondiu-Khosrow, Nawinabad and Kardakadh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seleucia-Ctesiphon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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