Ctesiphon (irq)

Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon ranks 3,953rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ashford, Surrey, Cobourg, and Tsukuba. Memorable people born in Ctesiphon include Mani, Khosrow II, and Hormizd IV. Memorable people who died in Ctesiphon include Khosrow I, Khosrow II, and Kavad II. Ctesiphon has been the birth place of many religious figures, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Ctesiphon is located in Iraq.

Ctesiphon was an ancient city in modern Iraq, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of Baghdad. Ctesiphon served as a royal capital of the Iranian empires for over eight hundred years, in the Parthian and Sasanian periods. Ctesiphon was the capital of the Sasanian Empire from 226–637 until the Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 AD. Read more on Wikipedia