• Thumbnail for Seleucia
    Seleucia (/sɪˈljuːʃə/; Greek: Σελεύκεια), also known as Seleucia-on-Tigris or Seleucia on the Tigris or Seleucia ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city...
    17 KB (1,969 words) - 00:44, 18 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seleucia Pieria
    Seleucia in Pieria (Greek Σελεύκεια ἐν Πιερίᾳ), also known in English as Seleucia by the Sea, and later named Suedia, was a Hellenistic town, the seaport...
    12 KB (1,387 words) - 20:27, 13 March 2024
  • Look up Seleucia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Seleucia on the Tigris (Greek: Σελεύκεια, Seleúkeia, lit. "place of Seleucus") was the first capital...
    3 KB (379 words) - 06:41, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Church of the East
    romanized: ʿĒḏtā d-Maḏenḥā) or the East Syriac Church, also called the Church of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the Persian Church, the Assyrian Church, the Babylonian Church...
    124 KB (13,525 words) - 23:25, 24 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Silifke
    Silifke (redirect from Seleucia Tracheotis)
    that name as Seleucia on the Calycadnus (Seleucia ad Calycadnum), Seleucia in Cilicia, Seleucia in Isauria, Seleucia Trachea, and Seleucia Tracheotis....
    19 KB (1,627 words) - 15:04, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Susa
    Susa (redirect from Seleucia ad Eulaeum)
    Susa, using Charax Spasinou as its port. The city was named Seleucia on the Eulaeus or Seleucia ad Eulaeum. Seleucus I Nicator minted coins there in substantial...
    66 KB (7,743 words) - 20:47, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon
    The Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, also called the Council of Mar Isaac, met in AD 410 in Seleucia-Ctesiphon, the capital of the Persian Sassanid Empire...
    11 KB (1,214 words) - 23:25, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Seleucia (Pamphylia)
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Seleucia (Pamphylia). Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια – also transliterated as Seleukeia) was originally an ancient Greek...
    4 KB (295 words) - 00:02, 24 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Ctesiphon
    cities along both shores of the river, including the Hellenistic city of Seleucia. Ctesiphon and its environs were therefore sometimes referred to as "The...
    30 KB (3,406 words) - 06:55, 28 March 2024
  • Diogenes of Seleucia (Greek: Διογένης; fl. 2nd century BC) was an Epicurean philosopher, who has sometimes been confused with Diogenes of Babylon, who...
    1 KB (163 words) - 21:12, 2 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Patriarch of the Church of the East
    patriarchate was first in Edessa and then transferred to the Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in central Mesopotamia during the Roman conquest of Edessa. In...
    31 KB (3,550 words) - 11:27, 21 January 2024
  • Seleucus of Seleucia (Greek: Σέλευκος Seleukos; born c. 190 BC; fl. c. 150 BC) was a Hellenistic astronomer and philosopher. Coming from Seleucia on the Tigris...
    8 KB (891 words) - 21:58, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of patriarchs of the Church of the East
    (c.87 – c.121). During his days a bishopric was formally established at Seleucia-Ctesiphon. 5. Abris (Abres or Ahrasius) (121–148 AD) 6. Abraham (Abraham...
    28 KB (2,721 words) - 03:08, 11 February 2024
  • Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια, Seleukeia), distinguished as Seleucia-near-Belus (Greek: Σελεύκεια πρὸς Βήλῳ, Seleúkeia pròs Bḗlōi, or πρὸς τῷ Βήλῳ, pròs...
    6 KB (432 words) - 11:42, 16 October 2023
  • Patriarchate of Seleucia-Ctesiphon may refer to: the office of the Patriarch of the Church of the East the Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, an...
    243 bytes (67 words) - 23:29, 26 November 2021
  • Thumbnail for Seleucia (theme)
    The Theme of Seleucia (Greek: θέμα Σελευκείας, thema Seleukeias) was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) in the southern coast of Asia Minor...
    4 KB (429 words) - 19:38, 8 January 2023
  • Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια, also transliterated as Seleuceia, Seleukeia, Seleukheia; formerly Coche or Mahoza, also Veh Ardashir) was an ancient city near...
    1 KB (103 words) - 05:45, 15 September 2021
  • Thumbnail for Xenarchus of Seleucia
    Xenarchus (Greek: Ξέναρχος; 1st century BC) of Seleucia in Cilicia, was a Greek Peripatetic philosopher and grammarian. Xenarchus left home early, and...
    2 KB (192 words) - 21:30, 2 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Aydın
    Aydın (redirect from Seleucia ad Maeandrum)
    the name Antiochia (Greek: Αντιόχεια). At other times it was also called Seleucia ad Maeandrum (Σελεύκεια επί του Μαιάνδρου) and Erynina (Ερυνίνα). In Roman...
    32 KB (3,106 words) - 20:20, 25 February 2024
  • Basil of Seleucia was a Roman Bishop and ecclesiastical writer. He was archbishop of Seleucia ad Calycadnum by 448. He condemned Eutyches in the year 448...
    10 KB (1,318 words) - 22:35, 29 October 2023
  • Seleucia Samulias – Seleucia (Greek: Σελεύκεια) also transliterated as Seleukeia or Seleukheia; in the Talmud, Selik, Selika, and Selikos; in the Aramaic...
    2 KB (183 words) - 22:46, 9 November 2023
  • Isaac of Seleucia (died 410) was a Patriarch of the Persian Church, who is celebrated among the Catholicoi, the patriarchs of the Persian Church, for having...
    2 KB (303 words) - 14:36, 27 October 2023
  • The Council of Seleucia was an early Christian church synod at Seleucia Isauria (now Silifke, Turkey). In 358, the Roman Emperor Constantius II requested...
    9 KB (1,231 words) - 09:28, 17 April 2023
  • Seleucia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Émile Louis Ragonot in 1887. Seleucia karsholti Vives Moreno, 1995 Seleucia pectinellum (Chrétien...
    1 KB (43 words) - 19:37, 4 January 2021
  • Thumbnail for Shemon bar Sabbae
    romanized: Shemʿon bar Ṣabbaʿe; died Good Friday, 345) was the Assyrian Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, from Persia, the de facto head of the Church of the East, until...
    4 KB (346 words) - 16:07, 29 April 2024
  • The School of Seleucia-Ctesiphon (sometimes School of Seleucia) was a theological school of the Church of the East located in the western half of the city...
    6 KB (678 words) - 00:11, 21 April 2023
  • Seleucia Sidera (Greek: Σελεύκεια η Σιδηρᾶ, Seleukeia hê Sidêra; Latin: Seleucia Ferrea), also transliterated as Seleuceia, Seleukeia, and later known...
    4 KB (285 words) - 11:42, 16 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Antioch
    twelfth year of his reign, equivalent to May 300 BC. Antioch soon rose above Seleucia Pieria to become the Syrian capital. The original city of Seleucus was...
    63 KB (7,895 words) - 14:28, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parthian Empire
    Roman–Parthian Wars of the next few centuries, capturing the cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon. Frequent civil wars between Parthian contenders to the throne...
    126 KB (15,616 words) - 18:11, 30 April 2024
  • Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire. The city's name was used by Arabs...
    18 KB (2,479 words) - 14:41, 28 April 2024