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How to use Ctesiphon in a sentence

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At Ctesiphon Trajan crowned a new vassal king, but revolt was in the wind, and attempts to disunite the Parthian chiefs failed.
In the south was Characene, while to the northeast of Ctesiphon, which had supplanted Seleucia as the Parthian capital, was Garamea, with its capital at modern Kirkūk.
The latter became emperor in 193 and began operations that permitted him to occupy first northern and then southern Mesopotamia and, for the third time in a century, Ctesiphon.
A new attempt to place a son on the throne in Armenia angered Rome, which, with the aid of the nobility, sent for Tiridates III, a pretender the barons had crowned at Ctesiphon.
The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire.
He succeeded in marching to the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault.
Reaching Ctesiphon, the Parthian capital, he ordered plundering and his army slew and captured many people.
Trajan's war against the Parthian Empire ended with the sack of the capital Ctesiphon and the annexation of Armenia and Mesopotamia.
In that same year, he captured Seleucia and the Parthian capital Ctesiphon.
The Sasanians established an empire within the frontiers achieved by the Achaemenids, with their capital at Ctesiphon.
In order to diminish the religious significance of the place, the British systematically referred to Salman Pak by its classical Sassanid name, Ctesiphon.
Following the accession of Heraclius, the Sassanid advance pushed deep into the Levant, occupying Damascus and Jerusalem and removing the True Cross to Ctesiphon.
Examples from Classical Literature
It would have been madness to leave Ctesiphon unassailed, and to press forward against Susa and Persepolis.
Then I saw him no more, and later they told me that he had died at Ctesiphon.
Julian had now reached the western suburb of Ctesiphon, which had lost its old name of Seleucia and was known as Coche.
Julian and his advisers must have seen at a glance that if the Romans were not to attack Ctesiphon, they must retreat.
It has since served as a quarry for the neighboring cities Seleucia and Ctesiphon, and has been demolished to the lowest terrace.
In the time of Julian, it must have fallen into the Euphrates, below Ctesiphon.
He marched up with the Division to Kut, and eventually on to Ctesiphon.
The sack of Ctesiphon was followed by its desertion and gradual decay.
Ascot week represents the temporal series from Ctesiphon to Kut.
All that we know of him is, that he embellished the city of Ctesiphon.
Never for a moment had we thought that the attack on Ctesiphon could fail.
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