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	Seleucia on the Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lying at the confluence of the Tigris River and a major canal from the Euphrates, Seleucia was in a position to receive traffic from both great waterways.
		In 141 BCE, the Parthians under Mithridates conquered the city, and Seleucia became the western capital of the Parthian Empire.
		Seleucia was burned down by Trajan in 117 CE, relinquished by Hadrian the following year, then rebuilt in the Parthian style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seleucia_on_the_Tigris (425 words)

	Seleucia - LoveToKnow Watches
		Seleucia suffered from the rebellion of the satrap Molon of Media, who was put down by Antiochus III.
		The destruction of Seleucia may be considered as the end of Hellenism in Babylonia.
		Other towns bearing the name Seleucia were : - (4) Seleucia in Mesopotamia, the modern Birejik; (5) in the Persian Margiana, founded as Alexandria by Alexander the Great and rebuilt as Seleucia by Antiochus I. (of Syria); (6) in Pisidia; (7) in Pamphylia; (8) on the Belus in Syria.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Seleucia (938 words)

	Seleucia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Seleucia on the Tigris functioned as an early Seleucid capital city.
		Seleucia in Syria functioned as the sea-port of Antioch and lay near the mouth of the Orontes.
		He is reputed to have built in all nine Seleucias, sixteen Antiochs, and six Laodiceas." Seleucia became a city of great importance, and was made a "free city" by Pompey.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Seleucia (199 words)

	Tigris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tigris is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq (the name "Mesopotamia" is a Greek word meaning "the land between the rivers").
		The Tigris is approximately 1,800 km (1,150 miles) long, rising in the Taurus Mountains of eastern Turkey and flowing in a generally southeasterly direction until it joins the Euphrates near Al Qurna in southern Iraq.
		Notable Tigris-side cities included Nineveh, Ctesiphon and Seleucia, while the city of Lagash was irrigated by Tigris water delivered to it via a canal dug around 2400 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tigris (635 words)

	Seleucia on Tigris - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Seleucia on Tigris was founded by Seleucus I in 305 BC.
		It stood on the Tigris river, a little south of modern Baghdad and opposite the smaller town of Opis.
		Seleucia was conquered by the Parthians; it continued as a 'Greek' city until it was burned down by Trajan, after which it was rebuilt in the Parthian style.
	ancientlibrary.com /wcd/index.php?title=Seleucia_on_Tigris&redirect=no (133 words)

	Seleucia on the Tigris
		Seleucia was founded by Seleucus Nicator, a general of Alexander the Great who, after the death of Alexander in 323 BC, secured for himself the Middle East from the Mediterranean to India.
		Seleucia reached the peak of its prosperity under the Hellenistic Greeks and this economic wealth was reflected in careful workmanship.
		The photographs suggest where the old bed of the Tigris touched the city, where the docks were, and where the canal from the Euphrates may have connected the city to traffic on that river.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Excavation/Seleucia.html (1872 words)

	THE HELLENISTIC ERA: SELEUCIA PIERIA
		The rule of the country was carried from Seleucia near Tigris (Dicle) to Seleucia near the sea.
		Although Seleucia was founded at the feet of Amonos Mountains, it wasn’t mentioned when he dealt with the marketing place chain near the sea.
		Seleucia was his own name, Antiochia was his father’s name, Apemia (Hums) was his wife’s name and Laodicia (Laskiye) was his mother’s name.
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	Seleucia on the Tigris
		Of preponderant interest to scholars at Seleucia, however, was its position in the historical meeting of cultures from the West and East.
		Seleucia reached the peak of its prosperity under the Hellenistic Greeks and its economic wealth was reflected in careful workmanship.
		With the growth in political and economic importance of the Parthian city of Ctesephon across the river, Seleucia probably suffered a slow decline, reflected in the increasing carelessness of manufacture and glazing and even in a decline in the amount of pottery in use.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Excavation/OldSeleucia.html (1565 words)

	Where We Work ::: Iraq Heritage Program :: Ctesiphon
		After the death of Alexander the Great, Seleukos Nikator founded Seleucia on the Tigris at the end of the fourth century B.C. with the aim of attracting the inhabitants of Babylon, despite its initial status as a Greek colony of the Seleucid kingdom.
		Seleucia on the Tigris, Ctesiphon and Veh Ardashir served as capitals to powerful empires of the Near East that rivaled Rome.
		With the foundation of the city of Seleucia on the Tigris as a Greek colony, this region became an arena in which the populations from the East and West came together and created a new more cosmopolitan culture that had not yet been seen in Iraq.
	www.globalheritagefund.org /where/ctesiphon.html (1620 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Seleucia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Seleucia SELEUCIA [Seleucia], ancient city of Mesopotamia, on the Tigris below modern Baghdad.
		One of the most important cities of the ancient Middle East, it was on the Euphrates River and was north of the cities that flourished in S Mesopotamia in the 3d millennium BC It became important when Hammurabi made it the capital of his kingdom of
		Tigris TIGRIS [Tigris], river of SW Asia, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) long, rising in the Taurus Mts., E Turkey, and flowing SE through Iraq to join the Euphrates River, with which it forms the Shatt al Arab.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Seleucia (614 words)

	Tigris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Tigris (Arabic Dijlah, Turkish Dicle), river in southwestern Asia, rising in Turkey and flowing through Iraq before joining the Euphrates to form...
		To prove that ancient Egyptians could have reached South America and founded the Aztec and Inca cultures 4,000 years ago, Heyerdahl attempted to...
		Seleucia on the Tigris, ancient city of Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), built by King Seleucus I, sometime after 311 bc, on the west bank of the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Tigris.html (113 words)

	Seleucia Definition / Seleucia Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The name Seleucia may denote any one of several cities in the Seleucid EmpireThe Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over the division of Alexander's empire.
		Seleucia on the TigrisThe Tigris (Old Persian: Tigr, Syriac Aramaic: Deqlath, Arabic: دجلة, Dijla, Turkish: Dicle; biblical Hiddekil) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq.
		He founded Seleucia on the Tigris River (around 305) as a new royal capital....
	www.elresearch.com /Seleucia (491 words)

	Search Results for "Seleucia"
		Founded (c.312 B.C.) by Seleucus I, it soon replaced Babylon as the main center for east-west commerce through the valley.
		...Tigris opposite Seleucia and at the mouth of the Diyala River.
		The Tigris is called the Hiddekil in the Bible.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Seleucia (294 words)

	Seleucia Pieria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seleucia Pieria - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seleucia Pieria, ancient city of Syria founded in 300 bc by King Seleucus I, at the foot of the Pieria Mountains, north of the mouth of the Orontes...
		The Muses were said to be the companions of the Graces and of Apollo, the god of music.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Seleucia_Pieria.html (100 words)

	Seleucia: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		They taste only the chemicals and impurities in the water.
		...Seleucia Seleucia The name Seleucia may denote any one of several cities in the...Seleucid Empire.
		...Scholasticus he attended the Synod-of-Seleucia Synod of Seleucia synod of Seleucia in the autumn of 359, and then...
	www.encyclopedian.com /se/Seleucia.html (329 words)

	Iraq Museum International: The Tigris
		Audiences will be able to carefully examine the features of the Tigris from altitudes as low as 1500 feet.
		In addition, other producers, educators and organizations will be able to use the smooth gliding aerial footage for different narrations on other topics such as art, literature, ancient and modern history, the environment, agriculture, commerce, transportation, community development, and reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
		Below is an aerial view of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, with the Tigris River in the distance.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /tigris.htm (455 words)

	Seleucia on the Tigris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Seleucia on the Tigris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	Seleucia on the Tigris - MSN Encarta
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	Seleucia, Antiochos II, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
		Seleucia, Antiochos II, ancient coins index with thumbnails - WildWinds.com
		Browsing Ancient Coinage of Seleucia, Antiochos II [Click here for the Seleucia, Antiochos II page with no thumbnail images.]
		Entry for Seleucia, Antiochos II on the Digital Historia Numorum
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/seleucia/antiochos_II/t.html (778 words)

	STAMPED AND INSCRIBED OBJECTS FROM SELEUCIA ON THE TIGRIS - MCDOWELL, ROBERT HARBOLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		STAMPED AND INSCRIBED OBJECTS FROM SELEUCIA ON THE TIGRIS - MCDOWELL, ROBERT HARBOLD
		Originally published as a dissertation, this volume lists and then analyzes the findings of the excavations conducted by Professor Leroy Waterman in 1927/28 to 1931/32 in Seleucia, Babylonia.
		The catalogue portion includes detailed descriptions and conjectures about the iconography or the significance of most items.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/oak/78178.shtml (143 words)

	Find in a Library: Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris : discovered by the expeditions conducted by the University of ...
		Find in a Library: Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris : discovered by the expeditions conducted by the University of Michigan with the cooperation of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1927-1932
		Figurines from Seleucia on the Tigris : discovered by the expeditions conducted by the University of Michigan with the cooperation of the Toledo Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1927-1932
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	Recent Publications Page 28
		A view from Seleucia on the Tigris" (1994)
		In: Invernizzi, Antonio (ed.), In the Land of the Gryphons: Papers on Central Asian Archaeology in Antiquity; Monografie di Mesopotamia vol 5
		Abstract: In this discussion of the Corinthian-type capitals that served as architectural decor in the Central Asian regions of Margiana, Bactria, and Parthia, those from Nisa are compared to capitals from Mesopotamian Seleucia on the Tigris.
	www.parthia.com /webreport_28.htm (2105 words)

	Seleucia, Antiochos II - Ancient Greek Coins - WildWinds.com
		Seleucia, Antiochos II - Ancient Greek Coins - WildWinds.com
		Ancient Coinage of Seleucia, Antiochos II Click here for the Seleucia, Antiochos II page with thumbnail images.
		ANTIOXOY, Apollo seated left on omphalos, examining arrow & resting hand on grounded bow,
	www.wildwinds.com /coins/greece/seleucia/antiochos_II/i.html (742 words)

	Find in a Library: Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris,
		Find in a Library: Coins from Seleucia on the Tigris,
		Publisher: Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1935.
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	Art Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Tel Omar Iraq Site Of Seleucia On Tigris (from Seleuid Period) Date Palms
		Date From Iraq Jane Sweeney Omar Palms Period Seleucia Seleuid Site Tel Tigris
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	Who was Who in Roman Times: Links of Countries, Places and Peoples: Seleucia ad Tigris/Seleucia/El Modain/Seleuceia
		Who was Who in Roman Times: Links of Countries, Places and Peoples: Seleucia ad Tigris/Seleucia/El Modain/Seleuceia
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