Ctesiphon
Ancient city · Iraq
- Abandoned
- 637
- Founded
- 120 BC
- Population
- 500,000
- Coordinates
- 33.094, 44.581
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: древний город в Месопотамии
History
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.