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Seleucia (disambiguation)

Seleucia (, Seleúkeia, "place of Seleucus") usually refers to Seleucia-on-Tigris, the first capital of the Seleucid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity but 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:

  • Seleucia, a Byzantine theme of the 9th–12th centuries centered in Seleucia in Isauria
  • Seleucia or Abila, 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, 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 partiarchate 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 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
Seleucia

Seleucia , also known as or , was a major Mesopotamian city of the Seleucid, Parthian, and Sassanid empires. It stood on the west bank of the Tigris River opposite Ctesiphon, within the present-day Babil Governorate in Iraq.

Seleucia (Pamphylia)

Seleucia ( – also transliterated as Seleukeia) was an ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean coast of Pamphylia, in Anatolia, approximately 15 km northeast of Side; the site is currently about 1k north of the village of Bucakşeyhler (also Bucakşıhler), approximately 12 km northeast of Manavgat, Antalya Province, Turkey. It is situated on a hilltop with steep escarpments on several sides making a strong defensive position. The track from the village has recently been clearfelled but the main site is still within a mature pine forest. The German researcher Johannes Nollé has suggested, however, that the remains at this location are not those of Seleucia but rather those of Lyrba.

There are remains of an agora containing a row of two-storey and three-storey building façades, a gate, a mausoleum, a Roman bath, a necropolis, in addition to several temples and churches.Because of its remote location,the site has not been plundered for building materials and the area is littered with columns and other items like large grindstones for flour making.

Seleucia (Sittacene)

Seleucia (, also transliterated as Seleuceia, Seleukeia, Seleukheia; formerly Coche or Mahoza, also Veh Ardashir) was an ancient city near the Euphrates river and across the Tigris from the better-known Seleucia on the Tigris, in Sittacene, Mesopotamia. The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World place the city at Sliq Kharawta in central Iraq.

Seleucia (theme)

The Theme of Seleucia (, thema Seleukeias) was a Byzantine theme (a military-civilian province) in the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey), headquartered at Seleucia (modern Silifke).

Seleucia (moth)

Seleucia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Ragonot in 1887.