Definitions
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- An ancient city of central Iraq on the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad. As the residence of Parthian kings it was renowned for its splendor. The Arabs captured and plundered the city in 637.
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- proper noun historical Ancient ruined city on the
Tigris , nearBaghdad , in present-dayIraq . Capital ofParthia and later of Sassanid Empire. Abandoned in 7th and 8th centuries.
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Ctesiphon is circumstantially, but not clearly, described by
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Palestine are not usual, except in the case of Parthian or Sassanian palace ruins such as Ctesiphon, Hatra, or Ukheidhir, which were often abandoned almost as soon as they were built, so that no later population could pile up rubbish-heaps or graves above them.
How to Observe in Archaeology Various
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Townshend had almost reached Baghdad when the British encountered a superior Turkish force at Ctesiphon in November.
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After Valerian was captured by the Sassanids and died in captivity in Bishapur, Odaenathus campaigned as far as Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) for revenge, invading the city twice.
Archive 2008-04-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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After capturing the Parthian capital, Ctesiphon just south of Baghdad, in 115 and annexing Mesopotamia, Trajan was forced to withdraw his forces under pressure from insurrections behind his front lines by the Jewish populations of Egypt, Palestine, and other border territories.
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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The Anglo-Indian force made phenomenal progress until the Turks stopped the Allied advance at the bloody battle of Ctesiphon, fifteen miles southeast of Baghdad, in November 1915.
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After Valerian was captured by the Sassanids and died in captivity in Bishapur, Odaenathus campaigned as far as Ctesiphon (near modern-day Baghdad) for revenge, invading the city twice.
The Romance of Zenobia's Palmyra Heather McDougal 2008
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By November, they had reached Ctesiphon, just outside of Baghdad, and encountered stiff Turkish resistance.
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One of them, an aerial photograph of the mighty 2,000-year-old Arch of Ctesiphon, won him a silver medal.
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Suffering 8,500 casualties at Ctesiphon, the British retreated to Kut-al-Amara, where more than 30,000 Turks surrounded the city and began a siege.
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