Circesium

Circesium, known in Arabic as al-Qarqisiya, was a Roman fortress city near the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur rivers, located at the empire's eastern frontier with the Sasanian Empire.
Wikipedia
  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 207 metres (679 feet)
  • Also known as
    “Al Buşayrah”
    “Bassira”
    “Bessireh”
    “Boussaïra”
    “Bseïra”
    “Buşayrah”
    “Buseira”
    “Buseire”
    “Circensium”
    “كركيسيوم”

Circesium

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Latitude
35.15663° or 35° 9′ 24″ north
Longitude
40.42969° or 40° 25′ 47″ east
Open location code
8H725C4H+MV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11429874409
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
173927
Wiki­data ID
Q1092772

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Circesium” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “البصيرة”
  • Arabic: “قرقيسيا”
  • Arabic: “قرقيسية”
  • Belarusian: “Кіркесіум”
  • Catalan: “Circèsion”
  • Catalan: “Circèsium”
  • Chinese: “盖尔吉西亚”
  • Dutch: “Circesium”
  • French: “Circesium”
  • Galician: “Circensium”
  • Galician: “Circesio”
  • German: “Circesium”
  • Greek: “Κιρκήσιον Μεσοποταμίας”
  • Indonesian: “Circesium”
  • Italian: “Circesium”
  • Japanese: “キルケシウム”
  • Japanese: “シルケシウム”
  • Japanese: “シルセシウム”
  • Persian: “قرقیسیا”
  • Portuguese: “Circésio”
  • Russian: “Киркесий”
  • Russian: “Цирцезия”
  • Serbian: “Киркесиум”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Circesium”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Circezij”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Circezijum”
  • Spanish: “Circesio”
  • Turkish: “Circesium”
  • Urdu: “قرقیسیا”

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