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Seleucia
Seleucia, or Seleucia-on-Tigris, was a city founded by Seleucus I Nicator in Mesopotamia around the end of the fourth century BCE. It served as one of the twin capitals of the Seleucid Empire alongside Antioch and became one of the largest cities of the Hellenistic world. It later passed to the Parthians, as accounts of the Seleucid Empire note in discussing the loss of Mesopotamia.
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