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The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (/ s ɪ ˈ l uː s ɪ ˌ d iː /; Greek: Σελευκίδαι, Seleukídai, "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Seleucid Empire based in West Asia during the Hellenistic period.
According to Polybius, King Antigonus I Monophthalmus established the Syrian kingdom which included Coele-Syria. [5] The Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great defeated the Ptolemaic Kingdom in the Battle of Panium (200 BC); he annexed the Syrian lands controlled by Egypt (Coele-Syria) and united them with his Syrian lands, thus gaining control of the entirety of Syria. [6]
Similarly, Seleucid rulers were described as kings in Babylonia. [ 17 ] The rulers did not describe themselves as being of any particular territory or people, but starting from the 2nd century BC, ancient writers referred to them as the Syrian kings, the kings of Syria or of the Syrians, the kings descended from Seleucus Nicator, the kings of ...
List of Persian monarchs: Seleucid Empire: 312 BC–63 BC Basileus Megas ("Great King") List of Seleucid rulers: Parthian Empire: 247 BC–224 AD Shahanshah ("King of Kings") List of Persian monarchs: Sasanian Empire: 224–651 Buyid Empire: 978–1062 Ilkhanate: 1295–1388 Padishah ("Master King") Timurid Empire: 1370–1507 Qara Qoyunlu ...
Seleucus I Nicator (/ s ɪ ˈ l uː k ə s /; [4] Greek: Σέλευκος Νικάτωρ, Séleukos Nikátōr, [b] "Seleucus the Victorious"; c. 358 BC – 281 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general, officer and successor of Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the Seleucid dynasty.
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Seleucus IV Philopator [1] (Greek: Σέλευκος Φιλοπάτωρ, Séleukos philopátо̄r, meaning "Seleucus the father-loving"; c. 218 – 3 September 175 BC), [2] [3] ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a realm consisting of Syria (now including Cilicia and Judea), Mesopotamia, Babylonia and ...
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