Susa

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Susa ( ; Middle ; Middle and Neo-; Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid ; Achaemenid ; ; ; ; ;Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Susa — ܫܘܫ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/415. or ; ) was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in modern day Iran. One of the most important cities of the Ancient Near East, Susa served as the capital of Elam and the winter capital of Achaemenid Empire, and remained a strategic centre during the Parthian and Sasanian periods. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: 4400 BC
UNESCO World Heritage Site: 1455

Source: en.wikipedia.org