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Seleucia

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Also known as Seleucia on Tigris, Seleucia-on-the-Tigris, Sliq Kharawta

Seleucia (; ), 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. It was founded around 305 BC by Seleucus I Nicator as the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and remained an important center of trade and Hellenistic culture after the imperial capital relocated to Antioch. The city continued to flourish under Parthian rule beginning in 141 BC; ancient texts claim that it reached a population of 600,000. Seleucia was destroyed in 165 AD by Roman general Avidius Cassius and gra

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Seleucia was an archaeological site and the capital of the Seleucid Empire, founded by Seleucus I Nicator. The city was established in 305 BCE or 300 BCE and was dissolved in 0165-01-01. It is located in the present-day Babylon Governorate of Iraq, near the Tigris River. The site shares a border with Ctesiphon and forms part of the Seleucia-Ctesiphon complex.

The area covers 5.6 units and sits at an elevation of 31 meters. Historically, the region has been associated with the Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, and Iraq. The culture of the site is described as Hellenistic civilization and Greater Iran. It is situated in the administrative territorial entity of Asuristan.

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Place details

Locality
حسين صالح
Region
محافظة بغداد
Country
العراق
Population
0

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Key facts

Ancient site.name
Seleucia
Ancient site.native_name
()
Ancient site.alternate_name
Seleukeia, Salīq, Seleucia-on-Tigris, Seleucia on the Tigris
Ancient site.image
Ctesiphon map-en.svg
Ancient site.caption
Archeological map of Seleucia and Ctesiphon sites
Ancient site.map_type
Iraq
Ancient site.map_alt
Seleucia lies in the center of Iraq
Ancient site.location
Baghdad Governorate, Iraq
Ancient site.region
Mesopotamia
Ancient site.type
Settlement
Ancient site.builder
Seleucus I Nicator
Ancient site.abandoned
165 AD
Ancient site.epochs
Hellenistic to Roman Imperial
Ancient site.cultures
Greek, Parthian, Sasanian
Ancient site.excavations
1927–1932, 1936–1937, 1964–1968, 1985–1989
Ancient site.archaeologists
Leroy Waterman, Clark Hopkins, Antonio Invernizzi, Giorgio Gullini

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Names
  • History
  • Seleucid Empire
  • Sasanian rule
  • Archaeology
  • See also
  • References
  • Sources
  • Further reading
  • External links

Seleucia (; ), 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. It was founded around 305 BC by Seleucus I Nicator as the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and remained an important center of trade and Hellenistic culture after the imperial capital relocated to Antioch. The city continued to flourish under Parthian rule beginning in 141 BC; ancient texts claim that it reached a population of 600,000. Seleucia was destroyed in 165 AD by Roman general Avidius Cassius and gradually faded into obscurity in the subsequent centuries. The site was rediscovered in the 1920s by archaeologists.

==Names== Seleucia (, Seleúkeia) is named for Seleucus I Nicator, who enlarged an earlier settlement and made it the capital of his empire around 305 BC. It was the largest and most important of the many cities to bear its name but is sometimes distinguished as or () from the name of its river.

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