Weh Antiok Khosrow

Wēh Antīōk Khosrow (Middle Persian; literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"),[1], also called Rūmagān (Middle Persian for "Romans' City"), Antiocheia Chosroou (Greek), al-Rūmīya (Arabic: الرومية‎), or Beh-az-Andīw-e Khosrow (New Persian: به از اندیو خسرو, "Better-than-Antioch of Khosrow"), was a city founded by Khosrow I in the vicinity of Ctesiphon, Sasanian Empire, that was populated by the deported Roman prisoners-of-war.[2]

Khosrow I captured Antioch in 540; the city was destroyed and its population was deported to this new city. According to Jacob of Edessa, prisoners-of-war from the cities of Sura, Beroea, Antioch, Apamea, Callinicum, and Batnai in Osrhoene were deported to this new city. It may be identical with Māhōzē Ḥəḏattā in the Syriac conciliar acts.[2]

Procopius has provided detailed information on the building of the city, though his primary source is pro-Sasanian. According to al-Tabari and al-Tha'alibi, the city was built on the plan of the Syrian metropolis and Khosrow I did everything in his power to make the residents want to stay.[2]

The city was governed by Barāz, a Christian from Gundeshapur.[2]

The city was captured by the invading Arab Muslims under Khalid ibn Urfuta.

See also

  • Weh Antiok Shapur

References

  1. ↑ Beate Dignas, Engelbert Winter: Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity. Cambridge 2007, 109 [Cited in []]
  2. 1 2 3 4 A. Shapur Shahbazi, Erich Kettenhofen, John R. Perry, “DEPORTATIONS,” Encyclopædia Iranica, VII/3, pp. 297-312, available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/deportations (accessed on 30 December 2012).
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