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Facts

Date 312 BCE - 64

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Major Events

Alexander the Great's Empire After the Battle of Ipsos
Battle of Ipsos
Syrian Wars
War of the Brothers

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ancient city, Iraq
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ancient city, Syria
Asia (Roman province)
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ancient Roman province
Aspendus
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ancient city, Turkey
Commagene
historical region, Near East
Thracian Chersonese
ancient region, Turkey
Seleucia Tracheotis
ancient city, Turkey

Key People

Antiochus Hierax
Seleucid king
Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire
Antiochus III the Great
Seleucid king
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Seleucid king
Seleucus I Nicator
Seleucid ruler
Antiochus I Soter
Seleucid king
Ptolemy VI Philometor, portrait on a silver tetradrachm; in the British Museum
Ptolemy VI Philometor
Macedonian king of Egypt
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Antiochus VII Sidetes
Seleucid king
Attalus I Soter
Attalus I Soter
king of Pergamum
Eumenes II
king of Pergamum
Antiochus II Theos
Seleucid king
Seleucus II Callinicus
Seleucid ruler
Judas Maccabeus
Jewish leader
Demetrius I, coin, 2nd century bc; in the British Museum
Demetrius I Soter
king of Syria
Seleucus IV Philopator
Seleucid ruler
Euthydemus
king of Bactria
Alexander Balas
king of Syria
Phraates II
Phraates II
king of Parthia
Demetrius II, coin, 2nd century BC; in the British Museum
Demetrius II Nicator
king of Syria
Jonathan Maccabeus
Jewish general
Soter Seleucus III
Seleucid ruler