Teredon

{{Short description|Ancient port city in southern Mesopotamia}} [[File:Heinrich_Kiepert._Imperia_Persarum_et_Macedonum._1903_(I).jpg|thumb|right]] '''Teredon''' ({{langx|grc|Τερηδών|translit=Terēdṓn}}) was an ancient port city in southern [[Mesopotamia]]. The place could not be localized so far archaeologically, but is believed to be in [[Kuwait]] near [[Basra]].<ref name=Teredon>{{cite book|author=Andreas P. Parpas|title=The Hellenistic Gulf: Greek Naval Presence in South Mesopotamia and the Gulf (324-64 B.C.)|url=https://www.academia.edu/35498091|pages=79|year=2016}}</ref><ref name=Teredon_Kuwait>{{cite web|publisher=Peter Harrington|title=Travel - Peter Harrington London|url=https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/138-Final-2.pdf|pages=4|date=2017}}</ref><ref name=Teredon_JSTOR>{{cite journal|author=J. Theodore Bent|title=The Bahrein Islands, in the Persian Gulf|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography|date=January 1890|volume=12|issue=1|pages=13|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1801121|publisher=[[JSTOR]]|doi=10.2307/1801121 |jstor=1801121 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> The place is mentioned several times by ancient writers. It is said to have been founded by [[Nebuchadnezzar II]], who built a palace with [[hanging garden]]s here.<ref>nach [[Eusebius]], Chronik, 1, 4, siehe [https://web.archive.org/web/20160406042725/https://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/eusebius_chron/chunk4.php Übersetzung]</ref> Teredon is said to have been located at the mouth of the [[Euphrates]] in the [[Persian Gulf]] and was an important port city in the Empire of the [[Characene]].

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