Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), K, Cressa, Ctesĭphon

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Ctesĭphon

（Κτησιφῶν).

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A city of Assyria on the east bank of the Tigris, three Roman miles from Seleucia on the west bank. It first became an important place under the Parthians, whose kings used it for some time as a winter residence.

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See Aeschines; Demosthenes.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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