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The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic (or Ancient Greek) successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. At its greatest extent, the Empire covered central...- The Seleucid era or Anno Graecorum (literally "year of the Greeks" or "Greek year") was a system of numbering years in use by the Seleucid Empire and...
Seleucus I Nicator (category Seleucid kings)his empire. Having served as an infantry general under Alexander, he eventually took the title of basileus (~"king"). He set up the Seleucid Empire over...- patriots (the Maccabees) against the Seleucid Empire and parties who wished to adopt Greek culture. The Seleucid Empire, which controlled present-day Syria...
Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire. Greek historians mentioned the result of Seleucid–Mauryan war where Seleucid Empire's eastern satrapies( Gedrosia...- Seleucus II Callinicus (category Seleucid kings)Callinicus was the second son of Antiochus II and the fourth king of the Seleucid Empire. After Antiochus II died his second wife Berenice declared her son...
Antiochus III the Great (category Seleucid kings)187 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king. He was the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire. Antiochus ruled from 222 to 187 BC. He ruled over the region of Syria...- Antiochus II Theos (category Seleucid kings)Theos was the second son of Antiochus I and the third king of the Seleucid Empire. After conquering Miletus and Ephesus and killing Timarchus of Miletus...
Hellenic Pakistan (section Under the Seleucid Empire)centers for Greek culture, trade, and government. After Alexander, the Seleucid empire, Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms came into power. They blended...- Antiochus IV Epiphanes (category Seleucid kings)Antiochus IV also known as Antiochus Epiphanes was a ruler of the Seleucid Empire. He was known for conquering most of Egypt from the Ptolemaic dynasty...
- Seleucus IV Philopator (category Seleucid kings)the second son of Antiochus the Great and the seventh king of the Seleucid Empire. According to the book of 2 Maccabees, Seleucus sent Heliodorus (minister)...
- Heliodorus (minister) was a minister of the Seleucid Empire. He worked for King Seleucus IV Philopator. Seleucus had to pay taxes to the Roman Republic...
- Seleucus III Ceraunus (category Seleucid kings)Ceraunus was the son of Seleucus II Callinicus and the fifth king of the Seleucid Empire. After becoming king, Seleucus III went to war against Attalus I in...
- the Levant and the Balkans). Of all the Hellenistic empires that were established, the Seleucid Empire was the largest. The Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt is...
- Maccabees. It does not have anything to do with their revolt against the Seleucid Empire, either (as described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees). Instead, it...
- who led a Jewish rebellion (the Maccabees) against the Seleucid Empire. Judah opposed the Seleucid Emperor's attempts to suppress traditional Jewish culture...
- about the period in Jewish history between 175 BC and 134 BC, when the Seleucid Empire ruled over Israel and forced their culture and religion onto the Jewish...
- rebels on the island of Sardinia, and he makes it into a Roman province. The Parthian kingdom breaks away to become independent of the Seleucid Empire....
- Antiochus I Soter (category Seleucid kings)Nicator. After his father died, Antiochus became the second king of the Seleucid Empire. After the assassination of his father Seleucus in 281 B.C.E., Antiochus...
- Empire. It occupied the same area as modern Israel and Palestine. For centuries Judea had been under the rule of the Seleucid Empire. As that empire broke...
