ECBATANA
(Hamadan) Iran.
This very important city of the Achaemenid empire was taken over
by the Seleucids. Pliny states that it was founded by
Seleucus, the first Seleucid ruler, while Strabo writes that
the existing Achaemenid palace was an occasional residence of the Seleucid kings.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Plin. 6.43;
Strab. 11.13.6.
D. N. WILBER