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    city-names such as Seleucia-on-the-Hedyphon, Alexandria near Babylon, Alexandria near the Pallakopas, and Alexandria on the Tigris have been proposed; but...
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    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...
    17 KB (1,965 words) - 23:22, 7 June 2024
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    at Naysān near the confluence of the Eulaios/Karkheh and the Tigris as recorded by Pliny the Elder. According to Pliny the Elder: The town of Charax is...
    13 KB (1,519 words) - 15:39, 18 March 2024
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    Nicodemus of Lacedaemon 170th Olympiad 100 BC - Simmias of Seleuceia-on-Tigris 171st Olympiad 96 BC - Parmeniscus of Corcyra 172nd Olympiad 92 BC - Eudamus...
    17 KB (2,372 words) - 15:56, 22 December 2023
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    Heyerdahl Burns Tigris Reed Ship to Protest War," in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:1 (Spring 2003), pp. 20–21. Forecoming 2014: Thor Heyerdahl and Azerbaijan...
    63 KB (7,227 words) - 21:59, 29 July 2024
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    used the opportunity to start a campaign against the Parthians. That summer Caracalla began to attack the countryside east of the Tigris in the Parthian...
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    his idol Alexander the Great. He crosses the Tigris, destroys towns and spoils the tombs of Arbela. The Roman army annexes Armenia. The basilica of Leptis...
    3 KB (326 words) - 18:00, 4 April 2022
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    Iskandariya (category Populated places on the Euphrates River)
    Alexandria stood halfway between Babylon (the place of Alexander's death) and Seleucia on the Tigris (the capital of the Seleucid Empire, very near to modern...
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    Gnat saw service during the First World War as part of a flotilla operating on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. After the war, the vessel was transferred...
    5 KB (367 words) - 02:21, 26 February 2022
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    Jovian (emperor) (category Burials at the Church of the Holy Apostles)
    Jovian his successor. Unable to cross the Tigris, Jovian made peace with the Sasanids on humiliating terms. He spent the rest of his seven-month reign traveling...
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    Sumer (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Sumerian farmers grew an abundance of grain and other crops, a surplus which enabled them to form urban settlements. The...
    106 KB (12,031 words) - 12:03, 5 August 2024
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    little progress. III (Tigris) Corps secured the Dahra Bend on 15 February. III (Tigris) Corps launched the Second Battle of Kut on 23 February with an assault...
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  • Rome and crosses the Tigris to annex Adiabene. He proceeds with his army to the Persian Gulf and conquers territory that becomes the province of Parthia...
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    Al-Muwaffaq lays siege to the Zanj capital of Mukhtara, using his base on the opposite side of the River Tigris. Bakong, the first temple mountain of sandstone...
    4 KB (315 words) - 02:11, 22 September 2023
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    Semen (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    planted in the ground, it caused the spontaneous growth of eight previously nonexistent plants.: 49  Enki was believed to have created the Tigris and Euphrates...
    51 KB (5,146 words) - 19:28, 1 August 2024
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    them east of the Tigris. The first, and greatest, was Alexandria in Egypt, which would become one of the leading Mediterranean cities. The cities' locations...
    217 KB (22,149 words) - 22:09, 5 August 2024
  • forces the city of Seleucia on the Tigris to surrender. In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus...
    5 KB (484 words) - 18:17, 15 November 2023
  • incorporated into the Persian Empire in 258, the city of Arbela, situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq, had taken on more and more the role that Edessa...
    117 KB (14,418 words) - 05:11, 12 August 2024
  • or simply crossed, including the most important battles/sieges and the cities founded (Alexandrias). The events of the expedition are shown in chronological...
    25 KB (201 words) - 23:02, 22 July 2024
  • surprised and defeated by Seleucus at the river Tigris, and his troops are either cut to pieces or defect to the enemy. Similarly, Demetrius Poliorcetes...
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