Seleucia (disambiguation)

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Seleucia was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and one of the great cities of antiquity. It stood in Mesopotamia, on the Tigris River.

Seleucia was also the name of many other many other towns and cities founded, rebuilt, or expanded in Hellenistic times:

• Seleucia Pieria, the port city for Antioch, at the mouth of the Orontes, in Syria
• Seleucia (Sittacene), across the Tigris from the foremost Seleucia
• Seleucia above Zeugma, on the Euphrates above Zeugma, probably near modern Sırataşlar, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey
• Seleucia ad Belum, later Seleucopolis, on the Orontes, Syria
• Seleucia (Pamphylia), now at Bucakşeyhler, Antalya Province, Turkey
• Seleucia Samulias, on Lake Merom (now drained), in Israel
• Seleucia Sidera, in Pisidia, now at Selef, Isparta Province, Turkey
• Seleucia (Susiana), formerly Soloke, Sele, Sodome, and Surak, now at Ja Nishin, Iran

Also,

• Seleucia, also known as Abila, in the Decapolis at a site near modern Irbid, Jordan
• Seleucia ad Maeandrum, also known anciently as Seleucia-in-Caria, formerly called Tralles; currently Aydın, Aydın Province, Turkey)
• Seleucia ad Pyramum, or Mopsuestia, now in Adana Province, Turkey
• Seleucia-in-Cilicia, also known as Seleucia-on-the-Calycadnus, Seleucia-in-Isauria or Seleucia-of-Isauria, Seleucia Trachea or Seleucia Tracheotis, now Silifke, Mersin Province, Turkey
• Seleucia ad Eulaeum, also known as Susa, now in southwestern Iran
• Seleucia, now Umm Qais, in Jordan
• Seleucia-on-the-Euphrates also known as Zeugma, now in Gaziantep Province, Turkey