Examples of using Ctesiphon in English and their translations into Malay
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Ctesiphon On the Crown.
Th century Ctesiphon(Peutinger Map).
Ctesiphon/ˈtɛsɪfɒn/ TESS-i-fon; Middle Persian.
Galerius is defeated in combat by the Persians outside Ctesiphon.
Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC.
Roman Emperor Septimius Severus sacks Ctesiphon and captures an enormous number of its inhabitants as slaves.
Ctesiphon Gallery 1824 drawing by Captain Hart Remains of Taq Kasra in 2008.
The reign of Gotarzes I saw Ctesiphon reach a peak as a political and commercial center.
Ctesiphon is captured by the Romans, but returned to the Parthians after the end of the war.
In 197, the emperor Septimius Severus sacked Ctesiphon and carried off thousands of its inhabitants, whom he sold into slavery.
Ctesiphon is located approximately at Al-Mada'in, 32 km(20 mi) southeast of the modern city of Baghdad, Iraq, along the river Tigris.
After the conquest of Antioch in 541,Khosrau I built a new city near Ctesiphon for the inhabitants he captured.
Taq Kasra or Ctesiphon palace ruin, with the arch in the centre, 1864.
Events Roman operations under Avidius Cassius was successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata,Seleucia, and Ctesiphon….
During the Roman- Parthian Wars, Ctesiphon fell three times to the Romans, and later fell twice during Sasanian rule.
In modern Arabic, the name is usually Ṭaysafūn(طيسفون) or Qaṭaysfūn(قطيسفون) or as al-Mada'in(المدائن"The Cities",referring to Greater Ctesiphon).
Under Sasanian rule, the population of Ctesiphon was heavily mixed: it included Arameans, Persians, Greeks and Assyrians.
Ctesiphon and Taq Kasra photo gallery Ctesiphon Exhibition at German State Museum(Video) Livius. org: Ctesiphon Ctesiphon(profile at the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, an Italian team from the University of Turin directed by Antonio Invernizzi and Giorgio Gullini[it] worked at the site,which they identified not as Ctesiphon but as Veh Ardashir.
The emperor Trajan captured Ctesiphon in 116, but his successor, Hadrian, decided to willingly return Ctesiphon in 117 as part of a peace settlement.
In the mid-630s, the Muslim Arabs, who had invaded the territories of the Sasanian Empire, defeated them during a great battle known as the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah.[12]The Arabs then attacked Ctesiphon, and occupied it in early 637.
Ctesiphon developed into a rich commercial metropolis, merging with the surrounding cities along both shores of the river, including the Hellenistic city of Seleucia.
While Khalid was on his way to attack Qadissiyah,a key fort in the way to Persian Capital Ctesiphon, he received the letter of Caliph Abu Bakr and was sent to Roman front in Syria to assume the command of Muslim armies to conquer Roman Syria.
Ctesiphon is first mentioned in the Book of Ezra[7] of the Old Testament as Kasfia/Casphia(a derivative of the ethnic name, Cas, and a cognate of Caspian and Qazvin).
While Khalid was on his way to attack Qadissiyah,a key fort on the way to Ctesiphon, he received a letter from Abu Bakr and was sent to the Byzantine front in Syria to assume the command of Muslim armies with the intent of conquering Roman Syria.
Ctesiphon then continued to be involved in constant fighting between two factions of the Sasanian Empire, the Pahlav(Parthian) faction under the House of Ispahbudhan and the Parsig(Persian) faction under Piruz Khosrow.
The population also included Manicheans, a Dualist church, who continued to be mentioned in Ctesiphon during Umayyad rule fixing their'patriarchate of Babylon' there.[12] Much of the population fled from Ctesiphon after the Arab capture of the metropolis.
Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Persian Empire in the Parthian and Sasanian eras for over eight hundred years.[2] Ctesiphon remained the capital of the Sasanian Empire until the Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 AD.
To the south of Veh-Ardashir was Valashabad.[12] Ctesiphon had several other districts which were named Hanbu Shapur, Darzanidan, Veh Jondiu-Khosrow, Nawinabad and Kardakadh.[12].
In 628, a deadly plague hit Ctesiphon, al-Mada'in and the rest of the western part of the Sasanian Empire, which even killed Khosrau's son and successor, Kavadh II.[18].
