Seleucia on the Tigris (Greek: Σελεύκεια, Seleúkeia, lit. "place of Seleucus") was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire and one of the great cities of antiquity but is now an abandoned ruin.

Seleucia also prominently refers to Seleucia Pieria, the port of Antioch at the mouth of the Orontes, now the city of Samandağı, Turkey.

Seleucia may also refer to:

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