Ver-Ardashir

History

Ver-Ardashir. Walls with towers near the craftsmen’s quarter

Ancient Ver-Ardashir was founded by Ardashir I (224 – 241 A.D.), the first great Sasanian ruler, in front of Seleucia, on the opposite bank of the Tigris, not far from the hypothetical site of Ctesiphon, the village that became a city in the 1st century A.D., near Seleucia. The area, indicated as a nodal point from an archaeological point of view, was called al-Mada’in, i.e. “the cities”, by its Arab conquerors, acknowledging the historical and topographical significance of the complex of ruins since Islamic times.