susa in English

noun
1
an ancient city in southwestern Asia, one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Elam and later capital of the Persian Achaemenid dynasty.

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1. 2700 BC (Proto-Elamite script in Susa) Old Elamite period: c.

2. Despite these accomplishments, Susa often felt that she was waging an uphill battle.

3. Susa felt a sacred sense of personal mission in this work.

4. From Babylon, Alexander went to Susa, one of the Achaemenid capitals, and captured its treasury.

5. Plundering Persia’s former royal capital Susa, Ptolemy III recovered these gods and took them ‘captive’ to Egypt.

6. While Mithridates retired to Hyrcania, his forces subdued the kingdoms of Elymais and Characene and occupied Susa.

7. Arrian on the weddings in Susa In February 324, Alexander forced many Macedonian officers to marry to native women

8. However, as time progressed Susa became more and more the real administrative center of the empire. —See ECBATANA; SHUSHAN.

9. The Fréjus Road Tunnel and Fréjus Rail Tunnel between Modane and Susa are important transportation arteries between France (Lyon, Grenoble) and Italy (Turin).

10. The Miedermuseum (Corset Museum) in Heubach was founded in 1971 by the initiative of the mayor in Heubach Friedrich Schenk in collaboration with the Corset producers located in the city at that time: SUSA-Werke GmbH and Triumph International.

11. Cyrus I, (flourished 7th century bc), Achaemenian king, the son of Teispes and grandfather of Cyrus II the Great; he had control over Anshan (northeast of Susa in Elam) and possibly also over Parsumash to the east during the second half of the 7th century.

12. Inscripción Cuneiforme en elamita del rey Shilhak-Inshushinak (Susa, Irán) - MARQ.jpg 4,000 × 2,667; 5.6 MB Naram-Sin stele inscription in Elamite.jpg 898 × 2,426; 1.76 MB P1050575 Louvre stèle de Naram-Sin inscription rwk.JPG 1,434 × 2,000; 2.21 MB

13. Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions The palace decoration of Ashurbanipal Assyria vs Elam: The battle of Til Tuba Persian Browse this content Ancient Persia, an introduction The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia Capital of a column from the audience hall of the palace of Darius I, Susa Persepolis: The Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes Parthian