Al-Mada’in
Al-Mada'in was an ancient metropolis situated on the Tigris in what is now Iraq. It was located between the ancient royal centers of Ctesiphon and Seleucia, and was founded by the Sasanian Empire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Al Madain”, “Al Madāin, Madāin, Al Madain, Madain”, “Al-Madain”, “Al-Modain”, “Madāin”, “Mahoze”, “Mahuza”, “Medinata”, “Mohoza”, and “Seleucia-Ctesiphon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salman Al-Muhammadi Shrine and Taq Kasra.
Salman Al-Muhammadi Shrine
Tomb
The Mosque of Salman al-Farsi is a mosque located in the city of Salman Pak, Al-Mada'in district, in the province of Diyala, in the Baghdad Governorate of Iraq.
Taq Kasra
Monument
Photo: Safa.daneshvar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tāq Kasrā, also transcribed as Taq-i Kisra or Taq-e Kesra or Ayvān-e Kesrā are the remains of a Sasanian-era Persian monument, dated to c. the 3rd to 6th centuries, which is sometimes called the Arch of Ctesiphon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ctesiphon.
Ctesiphon
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ctesiphon is a ruin in Iraq's Baghdad Belts. It was once an ancient Persian capital city, but only a former palace, with the world's largest unreinforced arch, remains standing. The town of Salman Pak is nearby, and is also covered in this article.
Al-Mada’in
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Al-Mada’in District, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.09841° or 33° 5′ 54″ northLongitude
44.58323° or 44° 34′ 60″ eastElevation
35 metres (115 feet)Open location code
8H563HXM+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 2486324382OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Al-Mada’in” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المدائن”
- Arabic: “مدائن”
- Bulgarian: “Мадаен”
- Catalan: “Madain”
- Chinese: “瑪達因”
- Chinese: “阿爾瑪達林”
- Dutch: “Al-Mada’in”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المدائن”
- French: “Al Madain”
- German: “Al Madain”
- German: “Al-Mada’in”
- German: “Al-Madain”
- German: “Mahoze”
- German: “Mahuza”
- Hebrew: “מדאין”
- Hebrew: “מחוזא”
- Indonesian: “Al-Mada’in”
- Italian: “Al-Mada’in”
- Italian: “Ctesifonte”
- Japanese: “アル・マダーイン”
- Japanese: “セレウキア-クテシフォン”
- Japanese: “マホザ”
- Malayalam: “അൽ-മദായിൻ”
- Malayalam: “മഹോസെ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “Māhōzē”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܚܘܙ̈ܐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܣܠܝܩ ܘܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ”
- Persian: “مدائن”
- Polish: “Al-Mada’in”
- Portuguese: “Almadaim”
- Russian: “аль-Мадаин”
- Russian: “Махуза”
- South Azerbaijani: “مدائن”
- Spanish: “Madain”
- Turkish: “Medain”
- Turkish: “Medâin”
- Urdu: “مدائن”
- Western Panjabi: “مدائن”
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