Ctesiphon

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Ctesiphon ( ; , Tyspwn or Tysfwn; ; , ; Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Ctesiphon — ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified July 28, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/58.) was an ancient Iranian city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about southeast of present-day Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras for over eight hundred years. Ctesiphon was capital of the Sasanian Empire from 226–637 until the Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 AD. Read more on Wikipedia

type: ancient site
date from: {{circa|120 BC}}

Source: en.wikipedia.org