Seleucia

[si-loo-shuh]

noun

1. an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.

2. an ancient city in Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Orontes River: the port of Antioch.

Seleucia

/ sɪˈluːʃɪə /

noun

1. an ancient city in Mesopotamia, on the River Tigris: founded by Seleucus Nicator in 312 _bc ; became the chief city of the Seleucid empire; sacked by the Romans around 162 _ad

2. Official name: Seleucia Tracheotis.  Seleucia Trachea. an ancient city in SE Asia Minor, on the River Calycadnus (modern Goksu Nehri): captured by the Turks in the 13th century; site of present-day Silifke (Turkey)

3. Official name: Seleucia Pieria. an ancient port in Syria, on the River Orontes: the port of Antioch, of military importance during the wars between the Ptolemies and Seleucids; largely destroyed by earthquake in 526; site of present-day Samanda? (Turkey)

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Either way, many were certain that they had done something to anger the gods, such as the sack of the ancient Mesopotamian city of Seleucia.

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This was a letter from a Patriarch of Seleucia to a Metropolitan of Elam.

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In classical Greece, Seleucus of Seleucia was the first to relate the pull of the moon with the rise and fall of the ocean.

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The greatest of all of them stood here—almost on the site of Bagdad—Seleucia on the Tigris.

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Along the southern coast, where the houses of Seleucus and Ptolemy strove for predominance, we find the names of Berenice, Arsino� and Ptolemais confronting those of Antioch and Seleucia.

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