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  1. Ruined royal city of the Parthians, and later
  2. capital of the Sassanian Empire, 19 km/12 mi
  3. SE of Baghdad, Iraq. A palace of the 4th
  4. century still has its throne room standing,
  5. spanned by a single vault of unreinforced
  6. brickwork some 24 m/80 ft across.
  7.