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Seleucia on the Tigris (Ancient Greek: Σελεύκεια, Seleúkeia, lit. "place of Seleucus") was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity but is now an abandoned ruin.
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Seleucia also prominently refers to Seleucia Pieria, the port of Antioch at the mouth of the Orontes, now the city of Samandağı, Turkey.
Seleucia may also refer to:
- Seleucia, a Byzantine theme of the 9th–12th centuries centered in Seleucia in Isauria
- Seleucia or Abila (Decapolis), a former settlement near modern Irbid, Jordan
- Seleucia, a former name of Umm Qais, Jordan
- Seleucia ad Belum, later Seleucobelus, a former settlement at the headwater of the Orontes in Syria
- Seleucia ad Eulaeum or Seleucia on the Eulaeus, a former name of Susa, Iran
- Seleucia ad Maeandrum, a former name of Aydın, Turkey
- Seleucia ad Pyramum or Mopsuestia, now in Adana Province, Turkey
- Seleucia at the Zeugma, a former settlement probably near Sırataşlar, Turkey
- Seleucia by the Sea, a former name of Samandağı, Turkey
- Seleucia-Ctesiphon, bishopric in Assyria (now Iraq), diocesan precursor of the Chaldean Catholic patriarchate of Babylon
- Seleucia in Caria, a former name of Aydın, Turkey
- Seleucia in Isauria, a former name of Silifke, Turkey
- Seleucia on the Calycadnus, a former name of Silifke, Turkey
- Seleucia on the Euphrates, a former name of Zeugma, Turkey
- Seleucia Ferrea, a former settlement and diocese at Selef, Turkey
- Seleucia on Hedyphon, a former settlement in Kirkuk, Iraq
- Seleucia Pamphylia, a former settlement at Bucakşeyhler, Turkey
- Seleucia Pieria (Seleucia by the Sea), the seaport of Antioch ad Orontes (Syria Prima)
- Seleucia Samulias on the former Lake Merom in Israel
- Seleucia Sidera in Pisidia, a former settlement at Selef, Turkey
- Seleucia Sittacene, a former settlement located on the Tigris shore opposite the more famous Seleucia
- Seleucia Susiana, a former settlement at Ja Nishin, Iran
- Seleucia Tracheotis, a former name of Silifke, Turkey
- Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, central ecclesiastical province of the Church of the East
- Seleucia (moth), a genus of moths in the family Pyralidae
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