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Circesium

Circesium (Classical Syriac: ܩܪܩܣܝܢ Qerqesīn, Ancient Greek: Κιρκήσιον), known in Arabic as al-Qarqisiya, was a Roman fortress city near the junction of the Euphrates and Khabur rivers, located at the empire's eastern frontier with the Sasanian Empire. Procopius calls it the "farthest fortress" (φρούριον ἔσχατον) of the Romans. It was later conquered by…

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Location
Syria
Length
540 m (1,770 ft)
Region
Deir ez-Zor Governorate
Width
190 m (620 ft)

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Circesium

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples168
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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related to Medieval era · 52
Circesium → Abbasids, Abd, Abd Allah, According, Ahmad, Baybars, Byzantines, Caliph Abd, Due, During, Egypt, Encyclopædia Iranica, Fihri, Georgian, Ghanm, Habib, Hamdanids, Harith, However, Ibn Hawqal
related to Bishopric · 31
Circesium → Abrahamius, Alexandria, Antioch, Bishop Jonas, Byzantine Emperor Leo, Chalcedon, Constantinople, Council, David, Davithas, Edessa, Emperor Justin, First Council, He, However, Jacobite, Michael, Monophysites, Nestorian, Nicaea
related to Bibliography · 30
Circesium → Amitai-Preiss, Bosworth, Brill, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Ch, Donzel, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Fasc, In, Iran, ISBN, Islam, Joseph, Karkisiya, Kha, Leiden, Lewis, Mamluks, Mongols
related to Etymology and location · 20
Circesium → Arabic, Arabicized, Circense, Euphrates River, Graeco-Roman, Hamza, Isfahani, Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, Khabur River, Krksyʾ, Latin, Muslim, Qarqīsiyā, Qarqīsīā, Qarqūsyōn, Qerqusion, Shapur I's, Syriac, The, The Parthian
related to Antiquity · 18
Circesium → According, AD, Emperor Diocletian, Emperor Gordian III, Emperor Jovian, Emperor Julian, In, Julian, Ka'ba-ye Zartosht, Khabur River, King Shapur I's, Later, Roman, Romans, Sasanian, Sasanians, Sasanids, Zaitha
related to Further reading · 9
Circesium → Basema, Hamarneh, In Nicholson, ISBN, Late Antiquity, Oliver, Oxford, Oxford University Press, The Oxford Dictionary
related to Modern era · 4
Circesium → Busayra, Streck, The, Writing
Length · 1
Circesium → 540 m (1,770 ft)
Location · 1
Circesium → Syria
Region · 1
Circesium → Deir ez-Zor Governorate

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roman emperor sasanian muslim century location city site euphrates khabur ibn eastern fortress al-busayra near located bishopric name second according

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CircesiumLength540 m (1,770 ft)1.00infobox
CircesiumLocationSyria1.00infobox
CircesiumRegionDeir ez-Zor Governorate1.00infobox
CircesiumWidth190 m (620 ft)1.00infobox
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityRoman0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityAD0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityKing Shapur I's0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityKa'ba-ye Zartosht0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityRomans0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityLater0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquityEmperor Diocletian0.60section
Circesiumrelated to AntiquitySasanians0.60section

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