Shushan

Related Category: Biblical Proper Names

(sh´shăn): see Susa.

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Susa - ancient city, capital of Elam. The site is 15 mi (23 km) SW of modern Dizful, Iran. It is the biblical Shushan, and its inhabitants were called Susanchites. From the 4th millennium B.C., Elam was und...