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Seleucia on the Tigris (
Greek : Σελεύκεια , Seleúkeia ,
lit. "place of
Seleucus ") was the first capital of the
Seleucid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity but is now an abandoned ruin.
Seleucia also prominently refers to
Seleucia Pieria , the port of Antioch at the mouth of the Orontes, now the city of
Samandağı , Turkey.
Seleucia may also refer to:
Places
Seleucia, a Byzantine theme of the 9th–12th centuries centered in Seleucia in Isauria
Seleucia or
Abila (Decapolis) , a former settlement near modern Irbid, Jordan
Seleucia, a former name of
Umm Qais , Jordan
Seleucia ad Belum , later Seleucobelus, a former settlement at the headwater of the Orontes in Syria
Seleucia ad Eulaeum or Seleucia on the Eulaeus, a former name of Susa, Iran
Seleucia ad Maeandrum , a former name of Aydın, Turkey
Seleucia ad Pyramum or Mopsuestia, now in Adana Province, Turkey
Seleucia at the Zeugma , a former settlement probably near Sırataşlar, Turkey
Seleucia by the Sea , a former name of Samandağı, Turkey
Seleucia-Ctesiphon , bishopric in Assyria (now Iraq), diocesan precursor of the Chaldean Catholic patriarchate of Babylon
Seleucia in Caria , a former name of Aydın, Turkey
Seleucia in Isauria , a former name of Silifke, Turkey
Seleucia on the Calycadnus , a former name of Silifke, Turkey
Seleucia on the Euphrates , a former name of Zeugma, Turkey
Seleucia Ferrea , a former settlement and diocese at Selef, Turkey
Seleucia on Hedyphon , a former settlement in Kirkuk, Iraq
Seleucia Pamphylia , a former settlement at Bucakşeyhler, Turkey
Seleucia Pieria (Seleucia by the Sea), the seaport of
Antioch ad Orontes (Syria Prima)
Seleucia Samulias on the former Lake Merom in Israel
Seleucia Sidera in Pisidia, a former settlement at Selef, Turkey
Seleucia Sittacene , a former settlement located on the Tigris shore opposite the more famous Seleucia
Seleucia Susiana , a former settlement at Ja Nishin, Iran
Seleucia Tracheotis , a former name of Silifke, Turkey
Religion
Biology
See also
Topics referred to by the same term