SELEUCIA

səlooˈshə, ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris below modern Baghdad. Founded (c.312 b.c.) by Seleucus I, it soon replaced Babylon as the main center for east-west commerce through the valley. The city was the eastern capital of the Seleucids until the Parthians conquered it. The Seleucids then moved their capital across the river to Ctesiphon, and Seleucia was thus superseded. In a Parthian campaign Trajan burned the city, and in a.d. 164 it was destroyed by Romans. Another Seleucia was founded by Seleucus I in Syria as the seaport for Antioch on the Orontes.

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books on: Seleucia  - 590 results

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Hellenistic Fortifications from the Aegean to the Euphrates
Book by A. W. McNicoll; Oxford University, 1997
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology)--Greece, Excavations (Archaeology)--Middle East, Fortification, Greek--Middle East, Fortification--Greece, Greece--Antiquities, Hellenism, Middle East--Antiquities
...seven years. Antiochus III recaptured Seleucia at the commencement of the Fourth Syrian...Laodicea -- all new urban centres -- Seleucia was the capital of a satrapy. With Laodicea...Laodicea. During the second century Seleucia underwent the tribulations of a turbulent...
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The Nature of Cities: Origin, Growth, and Decline, Pattern and Form, Planning Problems
Book by L. Hilberseimer; P. Theobald, 1955
Subjects: Cities And Towns--History, City Planning
...tragedy in the death of a proud city. Seleucia, Babylon's successful rival, did...the Orontes became the new capital; Seleucia was reduced to the status of second city of the empire. But Seleucia became more important commercially as...
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A Guide to Biblical Sites in Greece and Turkey
Book by Clyde E. Fant, Mitchell G. Reddish; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Bible--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Greece--Antiquities--Guidebooks, Turkey--Antiquities--Guidebooks
The city and port of Seleucia Pieria were founded at the beginning...eventually losing out entirely. Originally Seleucia Pieria served as the capital of the...moved the capital to Antioch, and Seleucia Pieria served as its strongly fortified...
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Hellenistic Engraved Gems
Book by Dimitris Plantzos; Clarendon Press, 1999
Subjects: Engraved Gems, Hellenistic
...transactions affecting property in land. 97 Seleucia on the Tigris The sealings from Seleucia on the Tigris were found in two rooms of Level...rule in Babylonia. Thus, the sealings from Seleucia are contemporary with those from Orchoi...
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Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
Book by Frank Sear; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Archaeology--Rome, Rome--Antiquities--Catalogs, Theaters--Rome
...Selah (Jordan), see PETRA (ARABIA) Sel?uk (Turkey), see EPHESUS (ASIA) SELEUCIA (LYCIA and PAMPHYLIA) 375 SELEUCIA IN PIERIA (SYRIA) 322 SELEUCIA-AD-CALYCADNUM (CILICIA) 362 SELEUCIA-ON-THE-EUPHRATES (SYRIA) 322 SELEUCIA...
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journal articles on: Seleucia  - 12 results

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Finding Lost Antioch: Exhibition, Catalogue, Programs
Journal article by John R. Clarke; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art exhibits, Baltimore Maryland, Civilization, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Ohio, Museum exhibits, Museum of Art-Baltimore MD, Worcester Art Museum-Massachusetts, Worcester Massachusetts
...miles from its Mediterranean port at Seleucia Pieria. The city boasted significant...five computer models of the church at Seleucia Pieria that helped the viewer understand...mosaic bust of the Pyramos River from Seleucia (cat. no. 38) and the Tethys mosaic...
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Public Theology and Prophecy Data: Factual Evidence That Counts for the Biblical World View
Journal article by Robert C. Newman, John A. Bloom, Hugh G. Gauch Jr.; Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Vol. 46, 2003
...most of the population had moved 20 miles to the new city of Seleucia. At the time of Christ, Strabo visited this city that had...being the movement of people from Babylon to the new city of Seleucia; and Thebes is noteworthy because this favorably-situated...
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The Chaldean Assyrian Syriac People of Iraq: an Ethnic Identity Problem
Journal article by Shak Hanish; Domes, Vol. 17, 2008
Subjects: Christianity, Christians, Iraq, Language, Linguistics, Religion
...followed him. Their leader was named Catholikos, who resided in Seleucia, Cteisphon, near Baghdad.13 In 1240, there were five thousand...were the Nestorians (The Church of East) headquartered in Seleucia-Cteisphon (close to Baghdad), and the Orthodox, called...
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Robert John Braidwood
Journal article by Patty Jo Watson; Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 149, 2005
Subjects: Archaeology, Braidwood, Robert John (1907-2003), Death & dying, Personal profiles, Scientists
...an invitation to join a Michigan expedition to Tell Umar (Seleucia-on-the-Tigris) south of Baghdad for the 1930-31 season...returned to the archaeological style he had known as a student at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris and in the Amuq: excavations employing...
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Contributions a L'histoire et la Geographic Historique De L'empire Sassanide
Journal article by Skjaervo Prods Oktor; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 129, 2009
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Contributions a L'histoire et la Geographic Historique de L'empire Sassanide (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...Isosabran was allegedly taken down from the report of the well-known Isozekha, a companion of the martyr and catholicos of Seleucia-Ctesiphon from 647. The text is regarded as a fairly reliable historical record and recounts the story of Mahanos, son...
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magazine articles on: Seleucia  - 7 results

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Christianity Is Moving from North to South-so What about the East?
Magazine article by Dyron B. Daughrity; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 35, January 2011
Subjects: Cartography, Christianity, Historians, Personal relationships
...An important Christian center emerged in the twin cities of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, on the site of ancient Babylon (now in Iraq...in the fifth century.14 The highest ranking clergyman in Seleucia-Ctesiphon became known as the catholicos and was the leader...
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The Shrine of Islam's Tragic Divisions
Magazine article by Corinne Atkins; History Today, Vol. 53, November 2003
Subjects: Iraq--History, Islam and politics--History, Islam--History, Islamic sects--History, Shiites--History, Sunnites--History, Talib, Ali ibn Abi--Behavior
...departures throughout the year. As in 2002 we travel to Baghdad, explore the Palaces, Souks, Mosques, visit Cresiphon Arch, Seleucia Go south to Sumerian and Babylonian sites, Sippar, Babylon, Kish, Borsippar, Nippur, Uruk, Ur, Eridu. The Shil cities...
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Antioch the Lost Ancient City
Magazine article by Sara E. Wilson; Humanities, Vol. 21, July 2000
Subjects: Antioch Turkey, Cities, Exhibits, Historic artifacts, Historic preservation
...Seleucus had chosen the location carefully, keeping in mind climate, water supply, and security. He built a port city, called Seleucia Pieria, where the Orontes River meets the Mediterranean and located Antioch about ten miles up the river. Halfway between...
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The Otogar Is the Way to Go: By Bus through Turkey
Magazine article by Donald F. Lynch; Focus, Vol. 44, Winter 1997
Subjects: Bus travel--Personal narratives, Turkey--Description and travel
...alluvial plains passing at1:40 a.m. through Mersin, which obviously is a major port to a 1:00 p.m. stop at Silifke (Seleucia-in-Cilicia) situated at the center of an alluvial delta and connected to the Anatolian Plateau by a steep mountain gorge...
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Christians in Iraq: Penny Young Investigates the Situation of One of the Country's Less-Commonly Mentioned Communities
Magazine article by Penny Young; History Today, Vol. 57, July 2007
Subjects: By the Waters of Babylon (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Iraq--Buildings and facilities, Iraq--Religious aspects, Syriac Christians--History, Syriac Christians--Statistics
...replaced by the Sassanian empire (both Persian) c. 226 AD. By the early fourth century, the Sassanian winter capital, Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the remains of which can be found to the south of Baghdad, had become the seat of the most important bishopric...
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newspaper articles on: Seleucia  - 2 results

 
 
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Silk Road Leads to Artistic Find
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, September 15, 2001
...the early Christian world, along with the seaport town of Seleucia Pieria, and the remote Central Asian oasis city of Kucha with...China. Antioch, now in Turkey near the Syrian border, and Seleucia Pieria were poised on the edge of the Mediterranean ready to...
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Tales of the Tide; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy of Merseyside Maritime Museum
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 3, 2009
Subjects: Maritime museums, Naval museums
...probably the first person to relate high spring tides to phases of the Moon. About 150 BC, Babylonian astronomer Seleucus of Seleucia (now Iraq) correctly described tides in order to support his theory that the Sun was the centre of the universe. He was...


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encyclopedia articles on: Seleucia  - 10 results

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Seleucia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SELEUCIA s loo sh , ancient city of Mesopotamia...capital across the river to Ctesiphon, and Seleucia was thus superseded. In a Parthian campaign...164 it was destroyed by Romans. Another Seleucia was founded by Seleucus I in Syria as...
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Ctesiphon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...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...taken and plundered by the Arabs who renamed it, along with Seleucia, al Madain; it was abandoned by them when Baghdad became...
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Arianism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ambiguous Homoean declaration that Constantius imposed (359) on the church in two councils, Rimini (for the West) and Seleucia (for the East). Arianism Defeated The voices of orthodoxy, however, were not silent. In the West St. Hilary of Poitiers...
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Cilicia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Hellenistic period the region was disputed by the Seleucid kings of Syria and the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt. Tarsus and Seleucia (not to be confused with the port of Antioch) were the principal cities. They flourished after the region became part of...
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Athanasius, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...By now a conservative reaction in the East issued in the strongly anti-Arian Lucianic creed promulgated at the Council of Seleucia (359), a step which led to the final victory of Nicene orthodoxy at the Council of Constantinople in 381. Athanasius was...
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