Maogamalcha
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Maogamalcha was a place in Mesopotamia
, attacked and taken by the Roman Emperor Julian
(Ammianus Marcellinus
xxiv. 4.). It appears to have been strongly fortified and well defended. Zosimus
evidently alludes to the same place, though he does not mention it by name, and states it was about 90 stadia from Ctesiphon
(Zosimus iii.21).
Mesopotamia
Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...
, attacked and taken by the Roman Emperor Julian
Julian the Apostate
Julian "the Apostate" , commonly known as Julian, or also Julian the Philosopher, was Roman Emperor from 361 to 363 and a noted philosopher and Greek writer....
(Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus
Ammianus Marcellinus was a fourth-century Roman historian. He wrote the penultimate major historical account surviving from Antiquity...
xxiv. 4.). It appears to have been strongly fortified and well defended. Zosimus
Zosimus
Zosimus was a Byzantine historian, who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I . According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury.- Historia Nova :...
evidently alludes to the same place, though he does not mention it by name, and states it was about 90 stadia from Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon
Ctesiphon, the imperial capital of the Parthian Arsacids and of the Persian Sassanids, was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia.The ruins of the city are located on the east bank of the Tigris, across the river from the Hellenistic city of Seleucia...
(Zosimus iii.21).