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Ctesiphon

Ctesiphon is a ruin in . 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.
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  • Type: Village with 118,000 residents
  • Description: city in Baghdad, Iraq
  • Also known as: “Salman Bak”, “Salmān Bāk”, “Salman Pak”, and “Salmān Pāk”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Arch of Al-Mada’in and Salman Al-Muhammadi Shrine.

Historic building
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.

Tomb
The Mosque of Salman al-Farsi is a located in the city of Salman Pak, district, in the province of Diyala, in the of .

Ctesiphon

Latitude
33.102° or 33° 6′ 7″ north
Longitude
44.5835° or 44° 35′ 0″ east
Population
118,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Open location code
8H564H2M+Q9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2483915617
Geo­Names ID
91615
Wiki­data ID
Q7405416
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Uzbek—“Ctesiphon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سلمان باك”
  • Belarusian: “Салман-Пак”
  • Dutch: “Salman Pak”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سلمان باك”
  • French: “Salman Bak”
  • German: “Salman Bak”
  • Japanese: “サルマン・パク”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salman Pak”
  • Persian: “سلمان پاک (شهر)”
  • Persian: “سلمان پاک”
  • Russian: “Салман-Пак”
  • Uzbek: “Salman Pak”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Ctesiphon”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.