>In 540, the Persian Emperor Khosrow I managed to capture the ancient city of Antioch from the Byzantine Empire, taking the cities population as well as captured garrison soldiers prisoner.

>Rather than enslaving them, he had the cities design copied exactly before it was destroyed and the citizen population forcibly transferred to modern Iraq where he had an exact copy of Antioch built to house the Antiochans and did everything possible to meet their desires to compel them to remain.

>This city he named Wēh Antīōk Khosrow, "Khosrow's Better Antioch", or more literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"

>>17809508 (OP)
Based petty king.

SOVL

>>17809508 (OP)
Mental illness

>>17809508 (OP)
That seems economically inefficient

kek
ancient pettiness was truly something earth-changing when put into motion

You can just do things.

>>17809508 (OP)
This is what Greek, Arab, Roman, Turkic, Mongol soldiers fucked

>>17809508 (OP)
Lust-provoking image

>>17809597
Kys. That's not what studies show.

>>17809597
That's not a boy though?
>>17809508 (OP)
The captured emperor Valerian was given a pleasant life by Shapur 1 and oversaw many construction projects

>>17809553
it was about sending a message. not sure what kind of, though

>>17809597
Persian girls are built for TURKIC men. Even Khamenei's father was TÜRK

>>17809597
Not at all, the stench was much more unbearable without modern hygiene products