CTESIPHON, a City lying upon the Tigris, at three miles distance from Seleucia, and Capital of that part of Assyria, called Calonitis. Eusebius, Jerom, and the Chaldee Interpreters are of opinion, that it was built in the same place where Calneh stood of old, mentioned in Genesis x. 10.
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