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SUSA (Ancient city) IRAN
Susa (ta Sousa; Old Test. Shushan; ShusPers). The winter residence of the Persian
kings. It stood in the district Cissia of the province Susiana, on the eastern
bank of the river Choaspes. Its name in old Persian signifies "Lily",
and that flower is said to abound in the plain in which the city stood. Susa was
of a quadrangular form, 120 (or, according to others, 200) stadia in circuit,
and without fortifications; but it had a strongly fortified citadel, containing
the palace and treasury of the Persian kings. The Greek name of this citadel,
Memnonice or Memnonium, is perhaps a corruption of the Aramaic Maaninon, "a
fortress", and this easy confusion of terms gave rise to the fable that the
city was founded by Tithonus, the father of Memnon. An historical tradition ascribes
its erection to Darius, the son of Hystaspes, but it existed already in the time
of Daniel (Dan. viii. 2). There is, however, a difficulty as to the identification
of the Shushan of Daniel with the Susa of the Greeks. The climate of Susa was
very hot, and hence the choice of it for the winter palace. It was here that Alexander
and his generals celebrated their marriage with the Persian princesses in B.C.
325, but the city declined after Babylon became the capital of Alexander and his
successors. In B.C. 315 it was taken by Antiochus, who found in it a vast amount
of treasure. The site of Susa is now marked by extensive mounds, on which are
found fragments of bricks and broken pottery, with cuneiform inscriptions. The
ruins of the ancient city cover a space of nearly three square miles, and they
have been carefully explored by Loftus, Churchill, Dieulafoy, and others. The
principal remains that still exist are four vast platforms like those at Persepolis,
with traces of a gigantic colonnade with a frontage of over 340 feet and a depth
of 240 feet. The palace of Darius Hystaspis has also been excavated, and from
it many artistic treasures taken to the Louvre.
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SUSIANA (Ancient province) PERSIAN GULF
Susiana (Sousiane) or Susis (Sousis) (nearly corresponding to Khuzistan). One of the chief provinces of the ancient Persian Empire, lay between Babylonia and Persis, and between Mount Parachoatras and the head of the Persian Gulf. In this last direction its coast extended from the junction of the Euphrates with the Tigris to about the mouth of the river Oroatis (Tab). It was divided from Persis on the southeast and east by a mountainous tract, inhabited by independent tribes, who made even the kings of Persia pay them for a safe passage. On the north it was separated from Great Media by Mount Charbanus; on the west from Assyria by an imaginary line drawn south from near the Median pass in Mount Zagros to the Tigris; and from Babylonia by the Tigris itself. See the works cited under Susa.
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