place
Ctesiphon
Also known as Taq Kasra
low
33.0936, 44.5808 · Wikidata Q192541 P625 (accessed 2026-11-12) · On the map
- founded or start. -120slow · Wikidata P571
- ended. 637-03high · Wikidata P576
Sasanian capital whose Taq Kasra arch still stands; seat of the Catholicos of the East.
Wikipedia extract
Ctesiphon was an ancient city in modern Iraq, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empires for over eight hundred years, in the Parthian and Sasanian periods. It fell in 637, during the Muslim conquest of Persia.
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- Ctesiphon · Wikipedia contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q192541 · Wikidata contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC0 1.0
- Pleiades place 893976 · Pleiades contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY 3.0
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- Khosrow II · person
sasanian · church-of-the-east