Ctesiphon
Imperial capital
capital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras in present Iraq
Approximate centre: 33.0936, 44.5808 · Pleiades 893976
What this place is
- Imperial capital — the Parthian and then Sasanian capital, the court the Church of the East answered to, until the Arab conquest of 637
Who is recorded here
- Mani birth · AD 216
- Shimun bar Sabbae death · AD 341
- Ahudemmeh death · AD 575
- Ishoyahb II death · AD 601
- Cyrus of Edessa residence
- Gregory death
- Shila birth
In art
About the place
Ctesiphon was an ancient city in modern Iraq, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empires for over eight hundred years, in the Parthian and Sasanian periods. It fell in 637, during the Muslim conquest of Persia.
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