Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon
   An important Mesopotamian city lying about 22 miles (35 km) south of modern Baghdad, Iraq. Ctesiphon was constructed by the Parthians after they took central Mesopotamia from the Seleucids in the second century B.C. The city became the Parthian capital, the central storehouse of the national treasures, and the place where the Parthian kings were crowned. The Romans captured Ctesiphon twice, once under the emperor Trajan in a.d. 114 and again under the emperor Marcus Aurelius a few decades later. However, the Romans were unable to hold onto either the city or Parthia for very long. Ctesiphon was captured still again when the Sassanian Persians conquered the Parthian Empire in 224. The Sassanian rulers restored the city, making it more splendid than ever before, and for a while it was one of the world's leading cultural centers. Then the Byzantines, or eastern Romans, captured it in 627, and shortly afterward a Muslim army sacked it. Thereafter, Ctesiphon was steadily abandoned and dismantled and its stones were used for construction in Baghdad and other new cities erected nearby.

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