Gundeshapur was a city of the Sasanian Empire, in southwestern Iran, in the province of Khuzestan. It was founded by Shapur I, reportedly settled with Roman prisoners captured after his victory over the emperor Valerian. Later it became a centre of learning, with a famous hospital and medical school, where Greek, Indian and Persian scholars, many of them Christians of the Syriac tradition, translated and taught medical and philosophical texts. After the Islamic conquest, the city kept its importance, and its physicians were influential at the Abbasid court. Historians debate how far it was an academy in the strict sense, but its role in transmitting medical knowledge to the Islamic world is generally accepted.
Before and after
- 245 CERise of Neoplatonism
- 250 CEDeath of Nagarjuna
- from 250 CE to 538 CEKofun period
- from 266 CE to 420 CEJin dynasty
- 271 CEOrigins of Gundeshapur
- 271 CEConstruction of Aurelian Walls
- 27 February 272 CEBirth of Constantine the Great
- 274 CEAurelian reunifies the Roman Empire
- 278 CEDiscovery of 278 Paulina
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