Ctesiphon
capital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras in present Iraq
Facts
18 properties- Instance of
- ancient city, archaeological site[7]
- Inception
- 120 BC[10]
- Part of
- Seleucia-Ctesiphon[9]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 33.094°, 44.581°, 🗺️ 33.094°, 44.581°
- Capital of
- Parthian Empire, Sasanian Empire, Asuristan[19][20][21]
- Area
- +30[22]
- Culture
- Greater Iran[23]
- Described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[15][16][17]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- March 637[11]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Asuristan, Baghdad Governorate[1][2]
- Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Salman Pak, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq[24][25][26]
- P14541
- 2lvI7l[27]
- Population
- +500000, +500000[14]
- Significant event
- Siege of Ctesiphon, Siege of Ctesiphon, Battle of Ctesiphon[12][13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mahuza
en Ctesiphon
en Mahoze
en Mint of Ctesiphon
en Al-Mada'in
ar قطيسنون
ar قطيسفون
ar قطسيفون
ar سلوقية-قطيسفون
ar سپين
ar طيسفون
ar تيسفون
cs Ktésifón
da Ktesifon
de Seleukia-Ktesiphon
de Seleukeia-Ktesiphon
de Seleukia am Tigris
de Ktesiphon
de Seleukeia am Tigris
el Κτησιφών
🔖 Identifiers · 33
- VIAF cluster ID
- 239181034
- GND ID
- 4437861-0
- Biblissima authority ID
- Austria–Hungary
- De Agostini ID
- Ctesifónte+(antica+città)
- Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire ID
- 21868
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
- 537248
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Ctesiphon-ancient-city-Iraq
- Freebase ID
- /m/0c3rt
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -3111754
- GeoNames ID
- 90287
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- ctesifont
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0020878
Show all 33 identifiers +21
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Ktesifon
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 2117417
- Grove Art Online ID
- T048135
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID
- 34366
- Kulturenvanteri monument ID
- 339019
- Museum-digital place ID
- 37k (11k–37k, n=3)
- Münzkabinett ID
- location/570
- NE.se ID
- ktesifon
- Nomisma ID
- ctesiphon
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 3928497
- Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
- 1946
- Pleiades ID
- 893976
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID
- 33011
- Topic's main category
- Category:Ctesiphon
- ToposText place ID
- 331446UKte
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- ctesifonte
- Treccani's Enciclopedia Italiana ID
- ctesifonte_res-b9c4af36-8bad-11dc-8e9d-0016357eee51
- Vikidia article ID
- fr:Ctésiphon
- World History Encyclopedia ID
- ctesiphon
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJdGJVmWM3RvtykdK4dRKd
- Yale LUX ID
- place/2b1c85c9-46a8-4487-bbf5-6fa9900240e3
🔗 Connections
People who died here 30
People born here 8
Located in this place 7
Capital of 3
Country 3
Located in the present-day administrative territorial entity 3
← Capital 3
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Significant event 2
Contained subdivisions 1
Culture 1
Described by source 1
Has these parts 1
Instance of 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in time zone 1
Part of 1
Replaced by 1
Shares border with 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category's main topic 1
← Headquarters location 1
← Official residence 1
← Replaces 1
← Shares border with 1
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