>In 540, the Persian Emperor Khosrow I managed to capture the ancient city of Antioch from the Byzantine Empire, taking the cities population as well as captured garrison soldiers prisoner.

>Rather than enslaving them, he had the cities design copied exactly before it was destroyed and the citizen population forcibly transferred to modern Iraq where he had an exact copy of Antioch built to house the Antiochans and did everything possible to meet their desires to compel them to remain.

>This city he named Wēh Antīōk Khosrow, "Khosrow's Better Antioch", or more literally, "better than Antioch, Khosrow built this"

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