The Ptolemaic army was the army of the Ptolemaic Greek kings that ruled Egypt from 305 to 30 BC. Like most of the other armies of the Diadochi, it was...
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The Ptolemaic Kingdom (/ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪ.ɪk/; Koinē Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, romanized: Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity...
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Battle of Raphia (category Battles involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
which time Ptolemaic Egypt was ruled by Ptolemy IV, and the Seleucid Empire was ruled by Antiochus III the Great. In 217 BC, both armies were on campaign...
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V at Cynoscephalae in 197 BCE, who fielded an army of 25,500 men. The eastern kingdoms of the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, Graeco-Bactrian and Indo Greek kingdoms...
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Battle of Panium (category Battles involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Seleucid and Ptolemaic forces as part of the Fifth Syrian War. The Seleucids were led by Antiochus III the Great, while the Ptolemaic army was led by Scopas...
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about the Metal Slug project is stolen by a mysterious group called the Ptolemaic Army, whose specialty lies from within archaeological excavation and espionage...
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Syrian Wars (category Wars involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Syrian Wars were a series of six wars between the Seleucid Empire and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, successor states to Alexander the Great's empire, during...
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Machimoi (category Military history of the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Sekunda, Nicholas Viktor (1995). Seleucid and Ptolemaic Reformed Armies 168-145 BC, Volume 2: The Ptolemaic Army. Montvert Publications. Fischer-Bovet 2013...
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Ptolemy IV Philopator (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
Ptolemaic army into shape, while Antiochus III used it to prepare for a new offensive. In early 218 BC, the Seleucid king obliterated the Ptolemaic forces...
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Gaugamela, Battle of the Hydaspes, etc. Antigonid Macedonian army, Seleucid army, Ptolemaic army. Arrian, [1], translated by E.J. Chinnock (1893) Arrian,...
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Publications. Sekunda, Nicholas (1995). Seleucid and Ptolemaic Reformed Armies 168-145 BC, Volume 2: The Ptolemaic Army. Angus McBride (illustrator). Montvert Publications...
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Triakontaschoinos (category Ptolemaic Kingdom)
August 186 BC, the Ptolemaic army defeated the forces of Hugronaphor's successor Chaonnophris and his Kushite allies, and Ptolemaic rule was re-established...
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Ankhwennefer (pharaoh) (category People from the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
Thebes either shortly before or after Ankhwennefer's accession. The Ptolemaic army garrisoned not just Thebes, but even the town of Syene further to the...
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Ptolemy VI Philometor (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
Ptolemaic monarchy. In the Sixth Syrian War (170–168 BC), the Ptolemaic forces were utterly defeated and Egypt was twice invaded by Seleucid armies....
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of the Ptolemaic army. The Greek armies of the Hellenistic period mostly fielded troops in the fashion of the Macedonian phalanx. Many armies of mainland...
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Battle of the Nile (47 BC) (category Battles involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
met the Egyptians in February 47 BC at the Battle of the Nile. The Ptolemaic army, equipped in the Greek manner, was slightly larger.[citation needed]...
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Ptolemy VIII Physcon (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
Ptolemaic army set out from the border fort of Pelusium to invade Palestine. The Ptolemaic army was intercepted and decimated by Antiochus IV's army in...
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civil liberties and lived content under their rule. However, when the Ptolemaic army was defeated at Panium by Antiochus III of the Seleucids in 200 BCE...
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Egyptian Armed Forces (section Army)
Military of Ancient Egypt Ptolemaic army Military of the Tulunid Emirate Military of the Mamluk Sultanate Ancient Egyptian navy Ptolemaic navy Fatimid navy IISS...
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IV's advisor, Sosibius, and the Ptolemaic court enter into delaying negotiations with the enemy, while the Ptolemaic army is reorganized and intensively...
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey, where they serve as elite soldiers in the Ptolemaic Army. Thorakitai Thyreophora Also thyreaphoros: θυρεαφόρος. Liddell, Henry...
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Battle of the Oenoparus (category Battles involving the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
the Oenoparus river near Antioch. The Ptolemaic army prevailed, forcing Balas to flee. While the Ptolemaic army won, both Balas and Ptolemy VI lost. Ptolemy...
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Cleopatra (category Pharaohs of the Ptolemaic dynasty)
August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant...
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2nd century BC, showing a Ptolemaic thyreophoros soldier, a characteristic example of the "Romanization" of the Ptolemaic army Fresco from the Tomb of Judgment...
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The Ptolemaic navy was the naval force of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and later empire from 305 to 30 BC. It was founded by King Ptolemy I. Its main naval bases...
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Alexander Helios (category Ptolemaic dynasty)
but possibly between 29 and 25 BC) was a Ptolemaic prince and son of Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic dynasty and Roman triumvir Mark Antony. Alexander's...
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mainland was taken, and essentially ending in 30 BC with the conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt following the Battle of Actium. A number of the best-known works...
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prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Babylon and Susa fall to the Ptolemaic armies of Ptolemy III. Following a long engagement, Ptolemy III marries Berenice...
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Sosibius (category Ptolemaic regents)
Ptolemaic army into shape, while Antiochus III used it to prepare for a new offensive. In early 218 BC, the Seleucid king obliterated the Ptolemaic forces...
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Gabiniani (category Military history of the Ptolemaic Kingdom)
feared that Pompey would try to incite the former Roman soldiers in the Ptolemaic army – who had earlier fought under his command – so that he could gain control...
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