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Ctesiphon meaning

An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Using Ctesiphon

  • The main meaning on this page is: An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • In the example corpus, ctesiphon often appears in combinations such as: capital ctesiphon, of ctesiphon, ctesiphon by.

Context around Ctesiphon

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 5 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 11 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

capital 3× period 1× near 1× attacking 1×

Often after:

became 1×

Sentence patterns with Ctesiphon

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

city of ctesiphon and definitively 1× ctesiphon by mid 1× from attacking ctesiphon by the 1× julian near ctesiphon 1× north of ctesiphon and would 1× parthian capital ctesiphon was sacked 1× parthian period ctesiphon was founded 1× persian capital ctesiphon before returning 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

an audacious plan 1× barnes constantine and 1× caliph al mansur 1× ctesiphon by mid 1× history parthian period 1× millar 178 with 1×

Common sentence endings:

along the euphrates 1× julian near ctesiphon 1× late 120s bc 1× ruins of ctesiphon 1× seleucia and ctesiphon 1× the eastern border 1×

Words around Ctesiphon

Just before it in the word index:

ctesias 4 cterm 2 ctep 2 ctenophore 2 ctenophora 3 ctem 3

Just after it in the word index:

ctet 5 ctf 21 ctfs 2 ctg 7 cth 7 cthol 7

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 14 aayush 14 abbottabad 14 aberdonian 14 abhi 14 aborting 14

Corpus analysis for Ctesiphon

  • In this selection, "ctesiphon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, capital, period, near and became stand out and add context to how "ctesiphon" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include city of ctesiphon and definitively and ctesiphon by mid. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "ctesiphon" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with ctesiphon

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

History Parthian period Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC. (11 words)

Procopius and the Armenians would march down the Tigris to meet Julian near Ctesiphon. (14 words)

Caliph Al-Mansur took much of the required material for the construction of Baghdad from the ruins of Ctesiphon. (19 words)

Longer example sentences

Ctesiphon By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night. (35 words)

Treadgold 1997, p. 298. Continuing south along the Tigris he sacked Khosrau's great palace at Dastagird and was only prevented from attacking Ctesiphon by the destruction of the bridges on the Nahrawan Canal. (34 words)

Millar, 178. With these territories, Rome would have an advance station north of Ctesiphon, and would be able to slow any future advance of Persian forces through the region. (29 words)

Example sentences (11)

Ctesiphon By mid-May, the army had reached the vicinity of the heavily fortified Persian capital, Ctesiphon, where Julian partially unloaded some of the fleet and had his troops ferried across the Tigris by night.

An audacious plan was formulated whose goal was to lay siege on the Sassanid capital city of Ctesiphon and definitively secure the eastern border.

Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 18; Potter, 293. Galerius continued moving down the Tigris, and took the Persian capital Ctesiphon before returning to Roman territory along the Euphrates.

Caliph Al-Mansur took much of the required material for the construction of Baghdad from the ruins of Ctesiphon.

History Parthian period Ctesiphon was founded in the late 120s BC.

I, pp. 1–88, 1966 G. Gullini and A. Invernizzi, Second Preliminary Report of Excavations at Seleucia and Ctesiphon.

Millar, 178. With these territories, Rome would have an advance station north of Ctesiphon, and would be able to slow any future advance of Persian forces through the region.

Procopius and the Armenians would march down the Tigris to meet Julian near Ctesiphon.

The Parthian capital Ctesiphon was sacked by the legions and the northern half of Mesopotamia was annexed to the Empire.

Tourists boarded steam yachts to venture inland as this was the first age of archaeological tourism, and the sites of Ur and Ctesiphon became popular to European travelers.

Treadgold 1997, p. 298. Continuing south along the Tigris he sacked Khosrau's great palace at Dastagird and was only prevented from attacking Ctesiphon by the destruction of the bridges on the Nahrawan Canal.

Common combinations with ctesiphon

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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What does "ctesiphon" mean?
Ctesiphon means: An ancient capital of Parthia and later of the Sassanid Persian Empire, on the Tigris near Baghdad in present-day Iraq, abandoned in the 7th and 8th centuries.
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