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Ctesiphon and on
An audacious plan was formulated whose goal was to lay siege on the Sassanid capital city of Ctesiphon and definitively secure the eastern border.
At the end of April the Romans captured the fortress of Pirisabora, which guarded the canal approach from the Euphrates to Ctesiphon on the Tigris.
After a failed attempt to move on Baghdad, stopped by the Ottomans at the bloody Battle of Ctesiphon, the British and their large contingent of Indian sepoy soldiers were forced to retreat to Kut, where the Ottomans under German General Baron Colmar von der Goltz laid siege.
* Anthemius, praetorian prefect of the East, is sent on an embassy to the Persian capital, Ctesiphon, to congratulate king Yazdegerd I on his accession the year before.
* A Roman military operation under Avidius Cassius is successful against Parthia, capturing Artaxata, Seleucia on the Tigris, and Ctesiphon.
After a long march he conquers Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian kingdom, and pressed on with the Roman army beyond the Tigris.
* King Bahram I of Persia dies after a 3-year reign in which the Zoroastrian priests at Ctesiphon ( Iran ) put pressure on him to persecute Buddhists, Christians and Manichaeans.
A German Oriental Society and University of Pennsylvania team led by Oscar Reuther excavated at Ctesiphon in 1928 – 29 and 1931 – 32, mainly at Qasr bint al-Qadi on the western part of the site.
According to Zonaras, Eutropius, and Festus, Carus won a major victory against the Persians, taking Seleucia and the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon ( near modern Al-Mada ' in, Iraq ), cities on opposite banks of the Tigris.
The three chief of them carried off the waters of the Euphrates to the Tigris above Babylon: the Zabzallat canal ( or Nahr Sarsar ) running from Faluja to Ctesiphon, the Kutha canal from Sippara to Madam, passing Tell Ibrahim or Kuth ' a on the way, and the King's canal or Ar-Malcha between the other two.
Having defeated the Quadi and Sarmatians on the Danube, for which he was given the title Germanicus Maximus, Carus proceeded through Thrace and Asia Minor, annexed Mesopotamia, pressed on to Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and marched his soldiers beyond the Tigris.
By the end of the year, Cassius ' army had reached the twin metropolises of Mesopotamia: Seleucia on the right bank of the Tigris and Ctesiphon on the left.
390, explains in Hebrew Questions on Genesis that after Nimrod reigned in Babel, " he also reigned in Arach, that is, in Edissa ; and in Achad, which is now called Nisibis ; and in Chalanne, which was later called Seleucia after King Seleucus when its name had been changed, and which is now in actual fact called Ctesiphon.
In ancient times this was the location of Ctesiphon and Seleucia on the Tigris.
By year ’ s end, Cassius had travelled to the south and crossed Mesopotamia at its narrowest point and proceeded to attack the twin Parthian cities on the Tigris river, Seleucia on the right bank, and Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, on the left.
It is believed to be based on the real-life Persian city of Asbanbar ( in modern-day Iraq ), which was one of the seven cities that entailed the Persian capital Ctesiphon.
Calneh (" Chalanne ") was identified with Ctesiphon in Jerome's Hebrew questions on Genesis, ca.
During the Roman-Iranian war of 572-91, Kotit Amatuni, together with other Armenian princes exasperated by the bureaucratic oppression of the emperor Maurice, fought on the Iranian side, but Amatuni fell into disgrace c. 596 at Ctesiphon, and the king of Iran had him executed.
** Volume II: April 1916: The Attempt on Baghdad, the Battle of Ctesiphon, the Siege and the Fall of Kut-al-Amara, Brigadier-General F. J. Moberly, 1924

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