CTESIPHON

tĕsˈĭfŏnˌ, tēˈsĭ–, 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 b.c. it was the winter residence of the Parthian kings. Ctesiphon grew rapidly and was of renowned splendor. The Romans captured it in warring against Parthia. It became the capital of the Sassanids in c.224 and a center of Nestorian Christianity. In 637 it was taken and plundered by the Arabs who renamed it, along with Seleucia, al Madain; it was abandoned by them when Baghdad became the capital of the Abbasids. It is now a suburban part of Baghdad. The ruined vault of the great audience hall contains the world's largest single span of brickwork.

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A Handbook of Muhammadan Art
Book by M. S. Dimand; Hartsdale House, 1947
Subjects: Art, Islamic, Decoration And Ornament, Decoration And Ornament, Islamic
...excavations, particularly those at Ctesiphon and Nishapur, undertaken by the Metropolitan...excavations of Sasanian sites such as Ctesiphon, near Baghdad, Kish in Mesopotamia...which came from the excavations in Ctesiphon conducted jointly by the Metropolitan...
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Aeschines and Athenian Politics
Book by Edward M. Harris; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Aeschines, Athens (Greece)--Politics And Government, Democracy--History, Demosthenes, Greece--History--Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C, Philip--Ii--King Of Macedonia--382-336 B.C
...Recent Views of Aeschines Prosecution of Ctesiphon in 330, 173...with Philip in 340 to the trial of Ctesiphon in 330. The first part of the chapter...attack Demosthenes by his prosecution of Ctesiphon and considers why he delayed his prosecution...
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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (AD 226-363): A Documentary History
Book by Michael H. Dodgeon, Samuel N. C. Lieu; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Iran--History--To 640, Iran--Military Relations--Rome, Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D, Rome--Military Relations--Iran
...5 Julians attempt against Ctesiphon 233 Notes on the sources...for the map on Julians attack against Ctesiphon by M. Fiey (1967); to J. M. Dent for...Sassanian twin royal city of Seleucia-Ctesiphon. Gordian perished in mysterious circumstances...
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The Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars
Book by Geoffrey Greatrex, Samuel N. C. Lieu; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--Foreign Relations--527-1081, Byzantine Empire--Foreign Relations--Rome--To 527, Byzantine Empire--History--To 527, Italy--History--476-774, Rome--Foreign Relations--Byzantine Empire--284-476, Rome--History--Empire, 284-476
...their cities Selok and Kaukaba, which are called Ardashir and Ctesiphon, where they were for many years. The Persian king assigned...another). The king of Parthia, intending to pass the winter at Ctesiphon, 28 returned to his own home, and the Roman emperor went...
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The Church of the East: A Concise History
Book by Wilhelm Baum, Dietmar W. Winkler; Routledge Curzon, 2003
...his see at the Persian capital Seleucia-Ctesiphon. The patriarchates of the Roman empire...over Papa, who as bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon should have held a position of primacy...however, exhibit contradictions. Seleucia-Ctesiphon probably became a diocese only in the...
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Coming Up
Journal article by George Cully; Air Power History, Vol. 54, 2007
...Khoury, George Washington University, will review two books: Wilkinson D. Birds, A Chapter of Misfortunes: The Battles of Ctesiphon and of Dujailah, and the British Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916. London: F. Groom, 1923 (Reprint London: Helion, 2006...
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Surat Al-Rum: A Study of the Exegetical Literature
Journal article by Nadia Maria El Cheikh; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History, Iran--History, Koran (Sacred text)--Hermeneutics
...Damascus. In 614, Jerusalem was captured and pillaged. The Byzantines shock was increased when the Holy Cross was transported to Ctesiphon. The Persians continued their advance, occupying Egypt between 617 and 619. The emperor Heraclius eventually took the offensive...
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Why Shouldn't the Sophists Charge Fees?
Journal article by James Fredal; Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Vol. 38, 2008
Subjects: Cultural values, Fees & charges, Gifts, Ideology, Intellectuals, Teaching methods
...who he promises to teach and then defrauds out of their wealth (Against Timarchus 170-172; On the Embassy 165-166; Against Ctesiphon 218-219). This charge should be read as a standard attack, framed and popularized by Plato, against the "sophistic" cluster...
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Coming Up
Journal article by George Cully; Air Power History, Vol. 53, 2006
...Khoury, George Washington University, will review two books: Wilkinson D. Birds, A Chapter of Misfortunes: The Battles of Ctesiphon and of Dujailah, and the British Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1915-1916. London: F. Groom, 1923 (Reprint London: Helion, 2006...
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Defender of the Atlantic Empire: Reverend William Smith and His Miranian Vision
Journal article by Ian Margeson; Utopian Studies, Vol. 16, 2005
Subjects: Smith, William (American clergyman)--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Smith, William (American clergyman)--Criticism and interpretation, Smith, William (American clergyman)--Works, Utopian communities--Models
...intellectual creativity. Students were to read examples of good oratory such as Tullys oration for Milo and Demosthenes polemic for Ctesiphon. They were also to be taught how to compose poetry and engage in literary criticism of odes, elegies, satires, pastoral poems...
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Epics in Miniature
Magazine article by Eric Gibson; New Criterion, Vol. 25, December 2006
Subjects: Ancient art--Exhibitions, Art, Ancient--Exhibitions, Cylinder seals--Exhibitions, Cylindrical seals--Exhibitions
...the Ancient Near East, its the great monumental structures that come to mind--the ziggurat at Ur, the barrel-vaulted arch at Ctesiphon, or sprawling temple complexes such as those at Persepolis and Khorsabad, of which only fragments remain. Yet there is a body...
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Lines in the Sand
Magazine article by F. S. Naiden; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 31, Winter 2007
Subjects: Iraqi history--Analysis
...with his stars and ribbons. She took Faisal to the ruins of Ctesiphon, the capital when the Arabs invaded, bringing Islam. She wanted...succeeded: The Ctesiphon expedition was an immense success.... After...
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The Gimlet Eye
Magazine article by John Bloom; National Review, Vol. 48, July 15, 1996
Subjects: History--Public opinion, Twentieth century--History
...destroyed. In fact, lets plant a little marker here on the square of Ctesiphon, the most famous city in the East, and a thousand years from now all the citizens of Ctesiphon will remember us and know that we made it all possible. I imagine...
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Hadrian and the Limits of Empire: The Emperor Hadrian Presided over the Roman Empire at Its Height, Defined Its Borders and Was One of the Most Cultured Rulers of the Ancient World. Neil Faulkner Revisits His Legacy, as the British Museum Opens a Major Exhibition on His Life and Times
Magazine article by Neil Faulkner; History Today, Vol. 58, August 2008
Subjects: British Museum--Exhibitions, Emperors--Appreciation, Emperors--Portrayals, Emperors--Powers and duties, Roman Empire, 30 BC-476 AD, Rome (Ancient state), Trajan, Emperor of Rome--Appreciation, Trajan, Emperor of Rome--Portrayals, Trajan, Emperor of Rome--Powers and duties
...Iraq was overrun. The following year (115) his army crossed the Tigris into eastern Iraq and advanced on the enemy capital at Ctesiphon, just south of modern Baghdad, which was captured after a short siege. It was a victory without parallel in Roman history...
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Art in the Year One
Magazine article by Scarlet Cheng; World and I, Vol. 16, January 2001
Subjects: Art, Art museums--Exhibitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York--Exhibitions, Millennium
...River almost to the Indus, becoming a rival to Rome until Augustus negotiated a peace with them. They set up a capital at Ctesiphon, on the Tigris River, and ruled for nearly five centuries, until the early third century a.d. Many trade routes passed through...
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Monument to History of Old Iraq
Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), May 8, 2009
...been commissioned by the government to reconstruct the statue, a modernist brick monument modelled on the ancient arch of Ctesiphon south of Baghdad, and is working on the preliminary blueprints. "I am very happy about this commission and the interest in...


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encyclopedia articles on: Ctesiphon  - 18 results

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Ctesiphon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CTESIPHON tes ifon , te si , 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 b.c. it was the winter residence of the Parthian kings. Ctesiphon grew rapidly and was of renowned splendor. The Romans captured it in warring against Parthia. It became the capital of...
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Sassanid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Parthians were overthrown and the capital, Ctesiphon , was taken, until c.640, when the country...651, but he had been forced to yield Ctesiphon to the Arabs in 636. Under the Sassanids...dynasty, Ardashir I , who took and ruled Ctesiphon (224 40). During his reign and many that...
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Cunaxa
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CUNAXA kyoonak s , ancient town of Babylonia, near the Euphrates River, NE of Ctesiphon. It was the scene of a battle (401 b.c.) between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II , described by Xenophon in the Anabasis...
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Ardashir I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...another form of Artaxerxes, d. 240, king of Persia (226? 240). He overthrew the last Parthian king, Artabanus IV, entered Ctesiphon, and reunited Persia out of the confusion of Seleucid decline. He established the strong Sassanid , or Sassanian, dynasty...
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Carus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...son, Numerianus, went on a campaign in the East. He defeated the Sarmatians, successfully attacked the Parthians, and took Ctesiphon. Soon afterward he died mysteriously. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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