Circesium - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Circesium - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Circesium ( , ),Thomas A. Carlson et al., “Circesium — ܩܪܩܝܣܝܘܢ ” in The Syriac Gazetteer last modified June 30, 2014, http://syriaca.org/place/62 . known in Arabic as al-Qarqisiya, was a Roman fortress city near the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur rivers, located at the empire's eastern frontier with the Sasanian Empire. Procopius calls it the "farthest fortress" (φρούριον ἔσχατον) of the Romans.Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Circesium Read more on Wikipedia
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