Seleucid Empire

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire was one of several political states founded after the death of Alexander the Great, whose generals squabbled over the division of Alexander's empire. There were over 30 kings of the Seleucid dynasty from 323 to 60 BC. Seleucid Empire - The partition of Alexander's empire 323-281 BC. Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire within a short time-frame and died young, leaving an expansive empire of partly Hellenized culture without adult heir. Therefore his generals ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia II - Seleucid Empire - Collapse of the Seleucid Empire By 100 BC, the once formidable Seleucid Empire encompassed little more than Antioch and some Syrian cities. Despite the clear collapse of their power, and the decline of their kingdom around them, nobles continued to play kingmakers on a regular basis, with occasional intervention from Ptolemaic Egypt and other outside powers. The Seleucids existed solely because no other nation wished to absorb them -- seeing as they constituted a useful buffer between their other neighbours. In the wars in Anatolia between Mithridates VI of Pontus and Sulla of Ro ...

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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Conflict with the Seleucid empire and Parthia

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Usurpation of Eucratides

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Defeat against Parthia

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Nomadic invasions

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Main Greco-Bactrian kings and territories

Greco-Bactrian Kingdom - Notes

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Bactria

Bactria (Bactriana) was the ancient Greek name of the country between the range of the Hindu Kush (Caucasus Indicus) and the Amu Darya (Oxus); its capital, Bactra (now Balkh), was located in what is now northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. Bactria was bounded on the east by the ancient region of Gandhara in the Indian subcontinent. The Bactrian language is an Iranian language of the Indo-Ir ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Indo-Greek Kingdom

The Indo-Greeks (or sometimes Greco-Indians) designate a series of Greek kings, who invaded and controlled parts of northwest and northern India from 180 BCE to around 10 CE. They were the successors in India of the Greco-Bactrian dynasty of Greek kings (the Euthydemids) founded by the military governor Diodotus around 250 BCE when he established the independence of his Bactrian territory from the Seleucid Empire. During the two centuries of their rule, the Indo-Greek kings combined the Greek and Indian languages and sym ...

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Indo-Greek Kingdom - Main Indo-Greek kings timeline and territories

Indo-Greek Kingdom - Notes

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Battle of Beth-zechariah

The Battle of Beth-zechariah was fought between Jewish and Syrian forces during the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire. In 164 BC, Judas Maccabeus crushed the numerically superior Syrians under Lysias at the Battle of Beth-zur and restored the temple in Jerusalem. However, Seleucid forces still controlled the Acra, a strong fortress within the city that faced the Temple Mount and served as a symbol to remind the Jews that their land was still occupied. Taking advantage of bitter rivalry between Lysias and the recently ...

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - 126 BC

Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 131 BC 130 BC 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC - 126 BC - 125 BC 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC Events Tyre successfully revolts from the Seleucid Empire. Seleucus V Philometor succeeds his father Demetrius II as king of the Seleucid Empire. Due to his youth, his stepmother Cleopatra Thea acts as regent.

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Achaemenid dynasty

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Antiochus I Soter

Antiochus I Soter (i.e. "Saviour") (324/323-262/261 BC), was an emperor of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire. He reigned from 281 BC - 261 BC. He was half Persian, his mother Apame being one of those eastern princesses whom Alexander the Great had given as wives to his generals in 324 BC. On the assassination of his father Seleucus I in 281 BC, the task of holding together the empire was a formidable one, and a revolt in Syria broke out almost immediately. With his father's murderer, Ptolemy, Antiochus was soon compelled ...

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Battle of Magnesia

The Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the famed general Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum against the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire. The resulting decisive Roman victory ended the conflict for the control of Greece. Battle of Magnesia - External link. http://www.fanaticus.org/DBA/battles/magnesia.html ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Antiochus II Theos

Antiochus II Theos (286–246 BC), was an emperor of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire who reigned 261–246 BC). He succeeded his father Antiochus I Soter in 261 BC. He was the son of Antiochus I and princess Stratonice, the daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes He inherited a state of war with Egypt, which was fought along the coasts of Asia Minor (the "Second Syrian War"). Antiochus also made some attempt to get a footing in Thrace. During the war he was given the title "Theos" which means "God" in Greek, bei ...

Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Antiochus IV Epiphanes (Επιφανής, Greek: Manifest) (c. 215–163 BC, reigned 175–163 BC), was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, He was originally named Mithradates, but renamed Antiochus either upon his ascension or after the death of his elder brother Antiochus. He was a son of Antiochus III the Great and brother of Seleucus IV Philopator. Antiochus took power after the death of Seleucus Philopator. He had been hostage in Rome following the peace of Apamea in 188 BC but had recently been excha ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - 96 BC

Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC - 90s BC - 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC Years: 101 BC 100 BC 99 BC 98 BC 97 BC - 96 BC - 95 BC 94 BC 93 BC 92 BC 91 BC Events Start of the Taishi era in the Han Dynasty Cyrene left to the people of Rome by its ruler Ptolemy Apion. Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antioch ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - 142 BC

Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC - 140s BC - 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC Years: 147 BC 146 BC 145 BC 144 BC 143 BC - 142 BC - 141 BC 140 BC 139 BC 138 BC 137 BC 142 BC - Events. Diodotus Tryphon seizes the throne of the Seleucid Empire. First stone bridge over the Tiber river completed. 142 BC - Births. Ptolemy IX, Egyptian ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - 238 BC

Centuries: 4th century BC - 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC Decades: 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC 250s BC 240s BC - 230s BC - 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC Years: 243 BC 242 BC 241 BC 240 BC 239 BC - 238 BC - 237 BC 236 BC 235 BC 234 BC 233 BC Events Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus assaults Sardinia upon a mutiny of Carthaginian mercenaries on the island, and makes it into a Roman province. In the Battle of Utica, the loyal Carthaginian troops of Hamilcar Barca defeat rebellious mercenaries. Parthia breaks away from the Seleucid Empire

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - 125 BC

Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC - 120s BC - 110s BC 100s BC 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC Years: 130 BC 129 BC 128 BC 127 BC 126 BC - 125 BC - 124 BC 123 BC 122 BC 121 BC 120 BC 125 BC - Events. Cleopatra Thea succeeds to the rule of the Seleucid Empire on the death of Seleucus V. She appoints Antiochus VIII Grypus as co-ruler. In Rome, Marcus Fulvius Flaccus proposes the extension of Roman ...

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Seleucid Empire: Encyclopedia - Antiochus III the Great

Antiochus III the Great, (c. 241–187 BC, ruled 223–187 BC), younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became ruler of the Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC. His traditional designation, the Great, stems from a misunderstanding of Megas Basileus (Great king), the traditional title of the Persian kings, which he adopted. Antiochus III the Great - Early years. Antiochus III inherited a disorganized state. Not only had Asia Minor become detached, but the further easte ...

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