Definitions for Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon Ctes·i·phon

Spelling: [tes-uh-fon]
IPA: /ˈtɛs əˌfɒn/

Ctesiphon is a 9 letter English word.

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Definitions for Ctesiphon

noun

  1. a ruined city in Iraq, on the Tigris, near Baghdad: an ancient capital of Parthia.

Examples for Ctesiphon

He marched up with the Division to Kut, and eventually on to Ctesiphon.

Never for a moment had we thought that the attack on Ctesiphon could fail.

All that we know of him is, that he embellished the city of Ctesiphon.

Both built themselves new capitals, the Persian in Ctesiphon in Mesopotamia; the Romans in Constantinople.

Ascot week represents the temporal series from Ctesiphon to Kut.

Julian and his advisers must have seen at a glance that if the Romans were not to attack Ctesiphon, they must retreat.

Julian had now reached the western suburb of Ctesiphon, which had lost its old name of Seleucia and was known as Coche.

Then I saw him no more, and later they told me (but it was not true) that he had died at Ctesiphon.

In the time of Julian, it must have fallen into the Euphrates, below Ctesiphon.

The sack of Ctesiphon was followed by its desertion and gradual decay.

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