Seleucia
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an ancient city in Iraq, on the Tigris River: capital of the Seleucid empire.
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an ancient city in Asia Minor, near the mouth of the Orontes River: the port of Antioch.
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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
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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)
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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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Most Rev. Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, 58, titular archbishop of Seleucia in Isauria, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of Faith.
From Time Magazine Archive
So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia," a port at the mouth of the river Orontes, a little to the west of Antioch; "and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.
From "Granny's Chapters" (on scriptural subjects) by Ross, Lady Mary
Basil of Seleucia wrote the history of Thecla in verse.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
All this rich alluvial soil is stoneless, but is strewn from Seleucia to Babylon with fragments of glass, bricks, and pottery.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
The ship, which had taken in a cargo of tanned hides at Stambul, was overtaken, en route, by a tempest which drove her upon the coast of Seleucia.
From The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries by Jókai, Mór
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