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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]
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Similarly, Seleucid rulers were described as kings in Babylonia. [ 15 ] 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 ...
2nd-century BC Seleucid monarchs (1 C, 18 P) 3rd-century BC Seleucid monarchs ...
Seleucid monarchs (3 C) Seleucid royal consorts (13 P) Pages in category "Seleucid dynasty" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Antiochus III the Great (/ æ n ˈ t aɪ ə k ə s /; Greek: Ἀντίοχος ὁ Μέγας, Antíochos ho Mégas; c. 241 – 3 July 187 BC) [1] was a Greek Hellenistic king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire, reigning from 223 to 187 BC.
The following is a list of the known rulers of the Kingdom of Edom in the Levant. Descendants of Esau ... To the Seleucid Empire c. 200-160 ? c. 270 - c. 200; Gorigas ...