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  Susa
Susa was an ancient city of the Babylonian, Persian and Parthian empires, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in the southeastern portion of the modern nation of Iran.
Susa, derived from the word shushan, meaning "lily" in the ancient Semitic tongues, is one of the oldest known settlements of the Mesopotamian civilization, probably founded about 4000 B.C. It is frequently mentioned in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and in the Jewish Tanakh.
Susa became a frequent place of refuge for Parthian and later the Persian Sassanid kings, as the Romans sacked Ctesiphon five different times between 116 and 297.
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 Susa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Susa (in Persian: شوش Shush) is a city in the Khuzestan province of Iran.
Susa is one of the oldest-known settlements of the region, probably founded about 4000 BCE; though the first traces of an inhabited village date back to 7000 BCE.
Susa is mentioned in the Ketuvim of the Hebrew Bible, mainly in Esther but also once each in Nehemiah and Daniel.
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 Wikinfo | Susa
Susa, derived from the word shushan, meaning "lily" in the ancient Semitic tongues, is one of the oldest known settlements of the Mesopotamian civilization, probably founded about 4000 BC.
The Hebrew prophets Daniel and Nehemiah lived in Susa during the Babylonian captivity of the sixth century BC.
Susa became a frequent place of refuge for Parthian and later the Persian Sassanid kings, as the Romans sacked Ctesiphon five different times between AD 116 and 297.
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 Susa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As well as being an archaeological site, Susa is also a lively village due to the devotion of Shi'a Muslims and the Persian Jewish community for the prophet Daniel.
Both Daniel and Nehemiah lived in Susa during the Babylonian captivity of Judah of the 6th century BCE.
Susa fell to the Seleucid Empire during which it was renamed Seleukeia.
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 Susa - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Susa, ancient city in the Khuzistan lowlands of south-western Iran, one of the most important sites of Near Eastern archaeology.
Alexander’s first act on reaching Susa was to arrange a mass marriage of 92 Macedonian officers (including himself) to Persian women.
The decoration of the palace at Susa consisted of stone reliefs in the style of those at Persepolis, and panels of bricks glazed in blue, green,...
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 Susa
Susa is one of the oldest cities in the world.
The yakâ-timber was brought from Gandara and from Carmania.
After the fall of the Achaemenid empire and the reign of Alexander the Great, who married in Susa (text), the city became part of the Seleucid empire.
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 History of Iran: Susa, capital of Elam, favorite residence of the Persian king Darius I the Great
The conical structure in front is venerated as the tomb of the prophet Daniel, another Biblical figure who was related to the Persian court at Susa.
This palace which I built at Susa, from afar its ornamentation was brought.
Boucharlat, "Susa under Achaemenid Rule" in: John Curtis (ed.) Mesopotamia and Iran in the Persian Period: Conquest and Imperialism 559-331 BC (1997 London) 54-67
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 Ancient Susa (Biblica Shushan) [Modern Shush] in Iran
Susa lay in the uplands of the Plain of Susiana on the east of the Tigris about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf.
Susa was originally the capital of the country called in Scripture Elam and by the classical writers Susiana.
In the time of Daniel Susa was in the possession of the Neo-Babylonians; Elam [and thus Susa] had probably passed into their hands at the division of the Assyrian Empire between Cyaxares (Persia : 625 — 585 BC) and Nabopolassar (Chaldea : 625 - 605 BC).
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 Susa - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Susa (Šušim): capital of Elam, favorite residence of the Achaemenid king Darius the Great.
Boucharlat, "Susa under Achaemenid Rule", in J. Curtis (ed.), Mesopotamia and Iran in the Persian Period: Conquest and Imperialism 559-331 BC, London 1997, pp.
Susa (http://www.livius.org/su-sz/susa/susa.htm) Original version of this article, which was placed here with permission of its author.
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 CHN | News
Susa Museum was restored and reopened two years after, but was once again closed due to the dangers emanating from the ongoing war.
Susa is one of the oldest-known settlements of the region, probably founded about 4000 BC; though the first traces of an inhabited village date back to 7000 BC.
Susa used to be the capital of the Elamite Empire (2700 BC-539 BC).
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 SUSA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Although an Englishman, W K Loftus was the first archaeologist, in 1852, unquestionably to identify the modern Shush with the classical Susa and the Biblical -Shushan, it is to a succession of French archaeologists, Dieulafoy, de Morgan, de Mecquenem, Ghirshman and Perrot, that credit is due for the systematic excavation of the site.
Neither Babylon nor Persepolis could compare with Susa in position -watered by her noble rivers, producing crops without irrigation, clothed with grass in spring, and within a moderate journey of delightful summer clime.
The visitor to Susa will drive first up to the castle that tops the acropolis on one of the four tappehs, or mounds, on which Susa was built.
www.irantour.org /Iran/city/SUSA.html   (1097 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Susa, Conrad
Conrad Stephen Susa was born in the town of Springdale, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, on April 26, 1935.
Susa's compositions are mainly tonal, and reflect a love of Baroque counterpoint and a joy in the polyphony of voices.
Susa's first opera, Transformations (1973), was among the most famous commissions by the theatrically innovative Minnesota Opera, and has become one of the most widely performed American operas.
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 About Susa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
SUSA is an organization that was founded in 1999 with the objective of promoting Spanish as an academic discipline to the students of USC.
SUSA is proud to have a diverse group of members, representing many USC majors and minors as well as a wide range of ethnic, racial, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds.
SUSA aims to reach out to the students at USC who are not involved with the Spanish department.
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 Search Results for "Susa"
Susa, (soo´z, -s) (KEY), ancient city, capital of Elam.
It is the trade center for an irrigated farm region.
The administrative capitals were elsewhere, notably at Susa and Babylon.
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 SUSA Online: About SUSA
SUSA's main job is to represent Stirling students - whether it be to the University or to the wider world.
Beyond that SUSA is concerned with the lives of students in Welfare, Rights, Clubs and Societies, Sport, Bars and Catering, Entertainment, Campus Media and Campaigns on any student-relevant issues.
SUSA is an open and accessible place, with committed officers who are here to try and make a genuine difference in the lives of all students.
www.susaonline.org.uk /about/index.php   (379 words)

  
 Piemonte Emozioni - Itineraries - Via Francigena in the Susa Valley (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Founded prior to the year 1000 by Ugo di Montboisser, the abbey dominates the narrow entrance to the Susa Valley ("la chiusa" or gateway) and was one of the busiest Benedictine centres in Piedmont for centuries.
We finally reach the Roman city of Susa, a former medievaltownwhose historic centre still echoes the original layout of the Roman Segusium.
Susa was the historic thoroughfare to the Monginevro and Moncenisio hills.
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 Susa - Capital of the Persian Empire (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
They are much better than the larger but more stilted and conventional winged lions that pleased the Assyrians of a much later period and inspired in still later times the sculptors of Susa to carve those great mythical monsters in high relief at the entrance of the palace of their Persian rulers.
The material was rich and the general impression must have been imposing, but it was a mongrel form of art -the uninspired elaboration by highly-paid craftsmen of the mean ideals of wealthy men who mistake luxury for beauty.
The history of Susa again becomes almost a blank, but it must have retained some of its former importance for in A.D. 1OO bronze coins were minted there and a new palace was built.
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Must attend 75% of SUSA meetings in a given year to be eligible to run for executive office the following year.
SUSA executive officers may not simultaneously be President of any SUSA student organization.
SUSA Executive Officers will be elected in December, to serve their one-year term from the start of Spring semester The SUSA Executive Advisory Team” shall consist of the Current President, immediate past-president and president-elect, to assist with transition issues.
www.rhsmith.umd.edu /susa/forms/2003NominationForm.doc   (167 words)

  
 Iran, 8000-2000 B.C. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The site of Susa is founded at this time, with its political and artistic affiliation alternating between the nearby lowland cities of southern Mesopotamia and the highland civilizations of Iran.
During the third millennium B.C., an Elamite kingdom emerges centered on the cities of Susa and Anshan, the latter in the Zagros Mountains.
Surrounded by numerous agricultural villages, Susa is centered on a large mud-brick platform and becomes the regional locus of what is now central Khuzestan.
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 Susa (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Winged [[sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa.]] Susa (or Shushan) was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran, located about 150 miles east of the Tigris River in Khuzestan province of Iran.
A tablet unearthed in 1854 by Henry Austin Layard in Nineveh reveals Ashurbanipal as an avenger seeking retribution for the humiliations the Elamites had inflicted on the Mesopotamians over the centuries: Ashurbanipal's brutal campaign against Susa is triumphantly recorded in this relief showing the sack of Susa in 647BC.
The city lost some of its importance when Alexander of Macedon conquered it in 323 BC and destroyed the first Persian Empire, but after Alexander's vast empire collapsed upon his death, Susa became one of the two capitals (along with Ctesiphon) of Parthia.
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 Susa, Italy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is situated on a tributary of the Po River, at the foot of the Cottian Alps, 51 km (32 mi) west of Turin.
Susa (ancient: Segusium) was founded by the Gauls.
In the Middle and Modern ages Susa maintained an importance as a hub on the roads connecting southern France to Italy.
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 Frank Susa: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Affirmation's goal, says New York chapter President Frank Susa, is to reach out to other lesbian and gay Mormons trying to reconcile their sexuality with a faith unequivocally opposed to gays and to remind church leaders that, "we are here, and we need their recognition and support."
Susa, Affirmation's New York president, had hoped that attending Brigham Young University and immersing himself in religion would cure him.
In 1996, Susa penned a letter to the Bishop of Manhattan's 3rd Ward, asking that his name be removed from membership records and that he be released from the covenants that membership in the Mormon faith entailed.
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 Letter from Artabanus II to Susa
The above block of grey marble was found by M. de Mecquenem at Susa in 1931/1932.
It is presently located in the Louvre Museum, Paris, in the gallery dedicated to Parthian and Sasanian artifacts, accession Sb 2786.
Following is the translation of the text by C. Welles, "Letter of Artaban III, King of Parthia, to Seleucia on the Eulaeus (Susa), validating the election of the city treasurer.
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 Conrad Susa :: Collegiate Faculty :: San Francisco Conservatory Of Music
Conrad Susa was resident composer for the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and served as dramaturge for the O'Neill Center in Connecticut.
Susa has served as staff pianist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and as assistant editor of “Musical America“ magazine.
Conrad Susa can be contacted at 415.503.6219 or admit@sfcm.edu.
www.sfcm.edu /faculty/susa.aspx   (195 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Susa
In addition to the arch, there still exist the ruins of the Thermæ Gratianæ constructed by Valentinian I. Susa being situated near one of the principal Alpine valleys was always a place of great strategic importance.
In 942 it became the residence of Ardoino Glabrio, Count of Susa and later Marquis of Turin, who was succeeded by Manfredo (975), Olderico (1001), and Adelaide (1034).
Later during the wars of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries it fell on five occasions into the hands of the French (1536-62; 1628-31; 1639-42; 1704-7; 1798-1814); in 1798 the fortifications constructed by the dukes of Savoy were dismantled.
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