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Susa (שושן, shwshn). One of two major cities in the ancient nation of Elam, in modern southwest Iran, and one of the capitals of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Susa sits on the Shaur River, between the Karkheh and Ab-i Dez Rivers, and is at the site of modern Shush in southwest Iran. The Persian-period remains sit on a high tell. Susa is in the eastern reaches of the Mesopotamian floodplains and below the southern Zagros Mountains.
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