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CTESIPHON , a large See also:village on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Tigris, opposite to See also:Seleucia, of which it formed a suburb, about 25 M. below See also:Bagdad. It is first mentioned in the See also:year 220 by See also:Polybius V. 45. 4. When the See also:Parthian Arsacids had conquered the lands See also:east of the See also:Euphrates in 129 B.C., they established their See also:winter See also:residence in Ctesiphon. They dared not stay in Seleucia, as this See also:city, the most populous See also:town of western See also:Asia, always maintained her See also:Greek self-See also:government and a strong feeling of See also:independence, which made her incline to the See also:west whenever a See also:Roman See also:army attacked the Parthians. The Arsacids also were afraid of destroying the See also:wealth and See also:commerce of Seleucia, if they entered it with their large See also:retinue of See also:barbarian officials and soldiers (See also:Strabo xvi. 743, Plin. vi. 122, cf. See also:Joseph. See also:- ANT
- ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u
Ant. xviii. 9, 2). From this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time Ctesiphon increased in See also:size, and many splendid buildings See also:rose; it had the outward See also:appearance of a large town, although it was by its constitution only a village. From A.D. 36-43 Seleucia was in See also:rebellion against the Parthians till at last it was forced by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Vardanes to yield. It is very probable that Vardanes now tried to put Ctesiphon in its See also:place; therefore he is called founder of Ctesiphon by See also:Ammianus See also:Marcellinus (See also:xxiii. 6. 23), where King See also:Pacorus (78-11o) is said to have increased its inhabitants and built its walls. Seleucia was destroyed by the See also:Romans in A.D. 164. When See also:Ardashir I.founded the See also:Sassanian See also:empire (226), and fixed his residence at Ctesiphon, he built up Seleucia again under the name of Veh-Ardashir. Later See also:kings added other suburbs; See also:Chosroes I. in 540 established the inhabitants of Antiochia in See also:Syria, whom he had led into captivity, in a new city, " Chosrau-See also:Antioch " (or " the Roman city ") near his residence. Therefore the See also:Arabs designate the whole complex of towns which See also:lay together around Seleucia and Ctesiphon and formed the residence of the Sassanids by the name Madain, " the cities,"—their number is often given as seven. In the See also:wars between the Roman and See also:Persian empires, Ctesiphon was more than once besieged and plundered, thus by See also:Odaenathus in 261, and by See also:Carus in 283; See also:Julian in 363 advanced to Ctesiphon, but was not able to take it (Ammianus See also:xxiv. 7). After the See also:battle of Kadisiya (Qadisiya) Ctesiphon and the neighbouring towns were taken and plundered by the Arabs in 637, who brought See also:home an immense amount of See also:booty (see See also:CALIPHATE). From then, these towns decayed before the in-creasing prosperity of the new Arab capitals See also:Basra and Bagdad. The site is marked only by the ruins of one gigantic See also:building of See also:brick-See also:work, called Takhti Khesra, " See also:throne of Khosrau " (i.e. Chosroes). It is a See also:great vaulted See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall ornamented with pilasters, the See also:remainder of the See also:palace and the most splendid example of Sassanian See also:architecture (see ARCHITECTURE, vol. H. p. 558, for further details and See also:illustration). (ED.
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