The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location
Modain
- city
- Sassanid Persian
Al-Mada'in, the 'cities' on the Tigris that comprised Sasanian Ctesiphon and its twin settlements. It was the Persian royal seat downstream from later Baghdad, not the Abbasid capital itself.
- Type
- city
- Style
- Sassanid Persian
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 239
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Al-Mada'in, the 'cities' on the Tigris that comprised Sasanian Ctesiphon and its twin settlements. It was the Persian royal seat downstream from later Baghdad, not the Abbasid capital itself.
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