Ctesiphon
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified
Feb 15, 2018 12:18 PM
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History
An imperial capital of the Persian and Parthian empires.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893976
33.094703, 44.5812226667
- DARMC location 20201 (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 22463 (330 BC - AD 640)
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)
- Ctesiphon (330 BC - AD 640)
- Ctesiphon (Georgian, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Ktesiphon (AD 632 - AD 750)
- Κτησιφῶν (Ktēsiphōn: Ancient Greek, 540 BC - AD 2000)
- Qṭispon (Syriac, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Qṭispōn (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Salmān Pāk (Modern Persian, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Tisifōn (Middle Persian, AD 284 - AD 650)
- Tisifōn (Modern Persian, AD 284 - AD 650)
- al-Madāʾin (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 632 - AD 2000)
- Ṭāq-e Kesrā (Modern Persian, AD 1258 - AD 1725)
- Ṭāq-e Kisrā (AD 1258 - AD 1335)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 F4 Ctesiphon
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: al-Ma'aridh
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Ctesiphon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893976> [accessed: 22 April 2018]
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