[soo-suh, -sah] 
| a ruined city in W Iran: the capital of ancient Elam; palaces of Darius and Artaxerxes I; stele containing the Code of Hammurabi discovered here. |
[ee-luh
m] | an ancient kingdom E of Babylonia and N of the Persian Gulf. Capital: Susa. |
| Sousse (sōōs) A city of northeast Tunisia on an inlet of the Mediterranean Sea. Founded in ancient times by the Phoenicians, it was an important city under the Romans and Carthaginians and later under the Arabs (9th-11th centuries) and the French (19th-20th centuries). Population: 173,000. |
| Su·sa (sōō'sə, -zə) A ruined city of southwest Iran south of Hamaden. It was the capital of the kingdom of Elam and a capital of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great. |
| Su·sah or Su·sa (sōō'sə, -zə) See Sousse. |
Susa
capital of Elam (Susiana) and administrative capital of the Achaemenian king Darius I and his successors from 522 BC. It was located at the foot of the Zagros Mountains near the bank of the Karkheh Kur (Choaspes) River in the Khuzistan region of Iran.
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