Seleucia
Seleucia ranks 6,835th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Halden, Thornaby-on-Tees, and Kunda, Estonia. Memorable people born in Seleucia include Seleucus of Seleucia and Diogenes of Babylon. Seleucia has been the birth place of many astronomers and philosophers. Seleucia is located in Iraq.
Seleucia, also known as Seleucia-on-Tigris or Seleucia on the Tigris or Seleucia ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city, located on the west bank of the Tigris River within the present-day Baghdad Governorate in Iraq. It was founded around 305 BC by Seleucus I Nicator as the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and remained an important center of trade and Hellenistic culture after the imperial capital relocated to Antioch. The city continued to flourish under Parthian rule beginning in 141 BC; ancient texts claim that it reached a population of 600,000. Seleucia was destroyed in 165 AD by Roman general Avidius Cassius and gradually faded into obscurity in the subsequent centuries. The site was rediscovered in the 1920s by archaeologists. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 240 BC and 190 BC, Seleucia was the birth place of 2 globally memorable people, including Seleucus of Seleucia and Diogenes of Babylon.
People Born in Seleucia
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Seleucus of Seleucia
190 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 1
Diogenes of Babylon
240 BC - 150 BC
HPI: 57.02
Rank: 2
Most individuals born in present day Seleucia were astronomers (1) and philosophers (1), while most who died were .
