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Alexandria. Rhacotis, Rakotə, Eskendereyyah. Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Khito (Rosetta) 3rd. Rashid. Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi. Where Rosetta Stone was found.
The Nameless City – ancient city in the Arabian desert described in H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Nameless City" Carcosa – created by Ambrose Bierce in "An Inhabitant of Carcosa," and later used by Robert W. Chambers and many Cthulhu Mythos writers beginning with H.P. Lovecraft; Valyria – from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and ...
Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [110] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about the djinn in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop the demons from destroying ...
Ctesiphon (/ ˈ t ɛ s ɪ f ɒ n / TESS-if-on; Middle Persian: 𐭲𐭩𐭮𐭯𐭥𐭭, Tyspwn or Tysfwn; [1] Persian: تیسفون; Greek: Κτησιφῶν, Attic Greek: [ktɛːsipʰɔ̂ːn]; Syriac: ܩܛܝܣܦܘܢ [2]) was an ancient Iraqi city, located on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and about 35 kilometres (22 mi) southeast of present-day Baghdad.
Name Historical region Present location Continuously inhabited since Notes Gao: Gao Empire, Songhai Empire Mali c.600 AD Gao-Saney called al-kawkaw, Gaw-Gaw [3] by ancient Arab chroniclers is the first site of Gao, founded in the 7th century, it was the capital of the Gao Empire of Za Dynasty.
Delphi among the main Greek sanctuaries. Delphi (/ ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi /; [1] Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]), [a] in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks ...
Hatra is known as al-Ḥaḍr (الحضر) in Arabic. It is recorded as 𐣧𐣨𐣣𐣠 (ḥṭrʾ, vocalized as: Ḥaṭrāʾ) in Hatran Aramaic inscriptions, probably meaning "enclosure, hedge, fence". In Syriac, it is usually recorded in the plural form Ḥaṭrē. In Roman works, it is recorded as Greek Átra and Latin Hatra and Hatris.
Mesopotamia[a] is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq. [1][2] In the broader sense, the historical region of Mesopotamia also includes parts of present-day Iran, Turkey, Syria and Kuwait. [3][4 ...