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Rh forts, strengthened existing cities, and built a new one, Dara, on Mount Apaortenon, an almost impregnable position, which he perhaps intended to make the capital of his kingdom. Tiridates or one of his immediate successors refounded Rhages-Europus under the name Arsacia, a designation which it did not long retain. In later times the royal residence of central Parthia was certainly Hecatompylos. Tiridates