Susa
Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the Tigris, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in Iran. It represents the current city of Shush, located on the site of ancient Susa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city in Iran, World Heritage site in Iran
- Also known as: “Shahr-e Şan‘atgerān”, “Shahr-e San`atgeran”, “Shushan”, and “Susa archaeological complex”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Tomb of Daniel.
Tomb of Daniel
Tomb
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Tomb of Daniel is the traditional burial place of the biblical figure Daniel. Various locations have been named for the site, however the tomb in Susa, in the province of Khuzestan, Iran, is the most widely accepted site, it being first mentioned by Benjamin of Tudela, who visited Western Asia between 1160 and 1163 CE. Tomb of Daniel is situated 1¼ km west of Susa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shush and Amaleh-ye Seyf.
Shush
Photo: adam jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shush is a small town of just over 50,000 people in Khuzestan, which is the site of the ancient city of Susa.
Amaleh-ye Seyf
Village
Amaleh-ye Seyf is a village in Ben Moala Rural District of the Central District of Shush County, Khuzestan province, Iran. Amaleh-ye Seyf is situated 3½ km north of Susa.
Sheykh Hanush
Village
Sheykh Hanush is a village in Ben Moala Rural District, in the Central District of Shush County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 278, in 43 families. Sheykh Hanush is situated 4½ km northwest of Susa.
Susa
- Categories: ancient city, architectural landmark, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Khuzestan, Iran, Middle East, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Susa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Susa”
- Amharic: “ሱሳ”
- Amharic: “ሱስን”
- Amharic: “ሹሻን”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σοῦσα”
- Arabic: “سوس (مدينة)”
- Arabic: “سوس (مدينه)”
- Arabic: “سوسة”
- Arabic: “شوشان”
- Arabic: “مدينة السوس”
- Arabic: “مدينة سوس”
- Armenian: “Շոշ”
- Asturian: “Susa”
- Awadhi: “सूसा”
- Azerbaijani: “Suza”
- Bashkir: “Суза”
- Basque: “Susa”
- Belarusian: “Сузы”
- Bosnian: “Susa”
- Bulgarian: “Суза”
- Catalan: “Susa”
- Cebuano: “Shūsh-e Qadīm”
- Cebuano: “Susa”
- Central Kurdish: “شاری کۆنینەی شۆش”
- Chinese: “شوش”
- Chinese: “書珊”
- Chinese: “苏撒”
- Chinese: “苏萨”
- Chinese: “蘇薩”
- Croatian: “Susa”
- Croatian: “Suza”
- Czech: “Šúš”
- Czech: “Šušan”
- Czech: “Šúšan”
- Czech: “Susy”
- Czech: “Súsy”
- Danish: “Susa”
- Dimli (individual language): “Susa, İran”
- Dutch: “Shushan”
- Dutch: “Soesa”
- Dutch: “Susa (Iran)”
- Dutch: “Susa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شوشان”
- Esperanto: “Suzo”
- Estonian: “Çūšā”
- Estonian: “Šuš”
- Estonian: “Susa”
- Estonian: “Šuša”
- Estonian: “Šušan”
- Finnish: “Susa”
- French: “Chouchan”
- French: “Suse”
- French: “Susiane”
- Galician: “Susa”
- Georgian: “სუზა”
- German: “Schuchan”
- German: “Susa”
- Greek: “Σελεύκεια Σουσιανή”
- Greek: “Σούσα”
- Hebrew: “שושן הבירה”
- Hebrew: “שושן”
- Hebrew: “שׁוּשָׁן”
- Hindi: “सूसा”
- Hungarian: “Szúza”
- Indonesian: “Kota Susan”
- Indonesian: “Susan”
- Irish: “Susa”
- Italian: “Susa”
- Japanese: “シュシャン”
- Japanese: “スーサ”
- Japanese: “スサ”
- Korean: “셀레우케이아”
- Korean: “셀레우키아”
- Korean: “수사”
- Kurdish: “Soûsa”
- Latin: “Susa”
- Latvian: “Sūsa”
- Latvian: “Šuša”
- Latvian: “Šušana”
- Lithuanian: “Susa”
- Lithuanian: “Šušas”
- Lithuanian: “Sūzai”
- Luxembourgish: “Susa”
- Macedonian: “Суза”
- Malagasy: “Sosa”
- Malayalam: “സൂസ”
- Maltese: “Shushan”
- Maltese: “Susa”
- Marathi: “सुसा”
- Mazanderani: “شوش باستانی شهر”
- Mingrelian: “სუზა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Susa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Susa”
- Norwegian: “Susa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Susa”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܫܘܫ”
- Persian: “شهر صنعتگران”
- Persian: “شوش قدیم”
- Persian: “شوش”
- Polish: “Suza”
- Portuguese: “Shushan”
- Portuguese: “Susa”
- Portuguese: “Susã”
- Romanian: “Susa”
- Russian: “Сузы”
- Russian: “Шуш”
- Russian: “Шушан”
- Scots: “Susa”
- Serbian: “Суза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Susa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Suza”
- Slovak: “Súsy”
- Slovak: “Súzy”
- Slovenian: “Suza, Perzija”
- Slovenian: “Suza”
- South Azerbaijani: “شوش (تاریخی شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “شوش”
- Spanish: “Shushan”
- Spanish: “Susa”
- Spanish: “Susiana”
- Swahili: “Shushani”
- Swedish: “Susa”
- Tagalog: “Shushan”
- Tagalog: “Sousa”
- Tagalog: “Susa”
- Tagalog: “Suza”
- Tajik: “Şūş”
- Tajik: “Шӯш”
- Tamil: “சூசா”
- Thai: “ซูซา”
- Turkish: “Susa”
- Ukrainian: “Суза”
- Ukrainian: “Сузи”
- Ukrainian: “Шуш”
- Ukrainian: “Шушан”
- Urdu: “سوسن”
- Uzbek: “Suza”
- Vietnamese: “Susa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Susa, Iran”
- Waray (Philippines): “Susa”
- Welsh: “Susa”
- Wu Chinese: “苏撒”
- Yue Chinese: “蘇薩”
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