Opening Remarks: Tomoko MORIKAWA (The University of Tokyo) Seiro HARUTA (Tokai University) “Introductory Overview: What are ‘Cities’ in the Achaemenid, Parthian and Sasanian Periods?” Yasuyuki MITSUMA (University of Tsukuba) “Citadel of Babylon under Greco-Macedonian and Iranian Rulers” Yousef MORADI (SOAS University of London) “Rediscovering Sarab-e Murt and its Relation to the Town of Holwan” Carlo CERETI (Sapienza University of Rome) “The Middle Persian Shahrestaniha-e Eranshahr and the Geography of the Sasanian Empire” Alisher BEGMATOV (The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities) “Cities on the Northern Fringes of the Sasanian Empire and Their Vicissitudes during the Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Eras” Manabu KAMEYA (Hirosaki University) “Early Islamic Military Cities and their Sasanian Background” General Discussion Discussant: Kazuya YAMAUCHI (Teikyo University) The University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus Faculty of Laws & Letters (Hōbun) Bldg. 2, Conference Room No.31 on the map https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/content/400020145.pdf 19 February 2020 (Wed.) 09:30-17:30 Sasanian Cities International Workshop MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas: “The Essence of Urban Civilization” Organized by C01-Research Group 05 “Historical research on the urban structure of West Asian “Islamic cities””