Susa

Susa was an ancient city in the lower Zagros Mountains about 250 km east of the , between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers in . It represents the current city of Shush, located on the site of ancient Susa.
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 89 metres (292 feet)
  • Description: ancient city in Iran, World Heritage site in Iran
  • Also known as
    “Mint of Susa”
    “Shahr-e Şan‘atgerān”
    “Shushan”
    “Susa archaeological complex”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tomb of Daniel.
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The is the traditional burial place of the biblical figure Daniel. is situated 1¼ km west of Susa.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shush and Amaleh-ye Seyf.
adam jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small town of just over 50,000 people…
is a village in Ben Moala Rural… is situated 3½ km north of Susa.
is a village in Ben Moala Rural… is situated 4½ km northwest of Susa.

Susa

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Latitude
32.18888° or 32° 11′ 20″ north
Longitude
48.25823° or 48° 15′ 30″ east
Open location code
8H4C57Q5+H7
Geo­Names ID
6687956
Wiki­data ID
Q180773

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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: “شوش”
  • 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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