The Seleucid Empire (/sɪˈljuːsɪd/) was a Greek state in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded in 312 BC by the Macedonian general Seleucus...

of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Seleucid Empire based in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded by...

The Seleucid–Mauryan War was fought between 305 and 303 BCE. It started when Seleucus I Nicator of the Seleucid Empire sought to retake the Indian satrapies...

fought with the Seleucid Empire, while the war with Macedonia was the second, and both of these wars effectively marked the end of these empires as major world...

Diadochi, Hellenistic kingdoms were established throughout West Asia (Seleucid Empire, Kingdom of Pergamon), Northeast Africa (Ptolemaic Kingdom) and South...

advantage of their resulting superior tactical position. King Perseus asks the Seleucid King Antiochus IV to join forces with him against the danger that Rome...

the death of Antigonus and some afterward." Magadhan Empire won the war and it is said Seleucid fared badly against the Mauryas as they ceded large territories...

of the Seleucid Empire Several later Persian rulers, forming the Frataraka dynasty, are known to have acted as representatives of the Seleucids in the...

The Seleucid–Parthian Wars were a series of conflicts between the Seleucid Empire and the Parthian Empire which resulted in the ultimate expulsion of...

against the Seleucid Empire. Mithridates I (r. c. 171 – 132 BC) greatly expanded the empire by seizing Media and Mesopotamia from the Seleucids. At its height...

demands would mean Antiochus III giving up the western part of his Seleucid Empire. Thus Antiochus refuses the Romans' demands. Empress Lü and Prime Minister...

Cyrenaica and successfully waged the Third Syrian War against the Seleucid Empire Xenoetas, Seleucid general (killed during a revolt against Antiochus III) 220 BC...

of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Seleucid Empire, both of which had emerged as successors to the Macedonian Empire following the Partition of Triparadisus...

The Seleucid army was the army of the Seleucid Empire, one of the numerous Hellenistic states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great. As...

Philadelphus succeeds his brother Eumenes II as king of Pergamon. With the Seleucid victory in Judea over the Maccabees, Alcimus is re-established as the High...

sometimes denoted "AG," was a system of numbering years in use by the Seleucid Empire and other countries among the ancient Hellenistic civilizations, and...

Antiochus V Eupator, ruler of the Seleucid Empire, who has reigned since 164 BC (b. c. 173 BC) Lysias or Lusias, Seleucid general and governor of Syria and...

in the Treaty of Apamea (188 BC). Antiochus V Eupator, ruler of the Seleucid Empire from 164 BC (d. 162 BC) Wang Zhi, Chinese empress of the Han dynasty...

Hellenistic Seleucid Empire Antiochus I Soter (died 261 BC), king of the Seleucid Empire Antiochus II Theos (286–246 BC), king of the Seleucid Empire who reigned...

July 187 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king and the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire, reigning from 223 to 187 BC. He ruled over the region of Syria and...

influence and Asia Minor as a buffer area while the Seleucids saw Asia Minor as a core part of their empire with Greece as the buffer zone. After the Aetolian...

החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against Hellenistic influence on Jewish life. The main phase of...

101 BC) Demetrius II Nicator, king of the Seleucid Empire from 145 BC and 129 BC (d. 125 BC) Nicanor, Seleucid general Arnott, W. Geoffrey. "Terence". Encyclopædia...

BC–November/December 164 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic King who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son of King Antiochus...

the ruler of the Seleucid Empire. Demetrius I Soter's son, Demetrius, goes into exile in Crete. The new king of the Seleucid Empire, Alexander Balas,...

Europe for naming years. The Seleucid king Antiochus IV mounts a campaign against the Parthians who are threatening his empire in the east. He leaves his...

the Seleucid Empire. 298–269 BCE: Reign of Bindusara, Chandragupta's son. He conquers parts of Deccan, southern India. 269–232 BCE: The Mauryan Empire reaches...

Ptolemaic Kingdom and then by the Seleucid Empire, Greek states formed after the breakup of Alexander's Macedonian empire. The Maccabean Revolt of 167–142...

resulting in a stalemate. Antiochus I Soter, Greek king of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire (or 262 BC) Qian, Sima. Records of the Grand Historian, Section: Lian...

311–305 BC, King 305 BC–281 BC), son of Antiochus and founder of the Seleucid Empire Seleucus II Callinicus (246–225 BC) Seleucus III Ceraunus (or Soter)...