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| | Seleucid Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Demetrius I attempted to restore Seleucid power in Judea particularly, but was overthrown in 150 BC by Alexander Balas -- an impostor who (with Egyptian backing) claimed to be the son of Epiphanes. | | | Seleucus, one of his generals, established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire. | | | Silver coin of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Dynasty in 323 BC The Seleucid empire's geographic span, from the Aegean Sea to Afghanistan, brought together a multitude of races: Greeks, Persians, Medes, Jews, Indians, to mention only some. |
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| | Dave Kopel on Hanukkah on National Review Online |
| | The Seleucids were trained to fight in the front, not the side, and the phalanx began to crumble under the fierce hand-to-hand assault from the Jews. | | | Six miles north of Hebron, near the Jewish fortress of Beth-zur, the Seleucids were marching through a mountain pass when the Jews descended on their flank. | | | Just then, that portion of the Seleucids did return, finding their own camp in flames and the Hebrews in arms; the last portion of the Seleucid army broke and ran for the sea. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel120502.asp
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| | The Seleucid Empire - Ancient Roman Empire Forums |
| | Much of the population of the Seleucus Empire was Greek and Jewish. | | | The Seleucid State spanned an - Arc- from the Persian Gulf across the plain of Babylon to the Valley of Aleppo to the Mediterranean coast and up that coast to the plain of Cilicia. | | | Granted, he marched around the empire and regained much land that had been lost due to rebellions etc and had repeated things that Seleukos I Nikator had done but, he really never won any great victory. |
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http://www.unrv.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2082&st=0
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| | An Interpretation of the Book of Daniel |
| | His persecution of the Jews during the years 167 to 164 BC was so extensive that the worship of Yahweh and all of the Jewish rites were forbidden under pain of death. | | | These four beasts are incorporated into the one beast described in Revelation 13, meaning that this beast will act similar to all four of the beasts in Daniel, but particularly as the last of the four beasts about which more is said. | | | Christianity struck in the sense that it eventually abolished idolatry as symbolized by the statue within the Greek world and the Roman Empire, as well as in the lands of Babylon. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Kirche_Enterprises/Daniel/Daniel.html
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| | Ethics of the Hellenistic Era by Sanderson Beck |
| | The Seleucid kingdom dated its beginning from 312 BC when Seleucus I Nicator seized Babylon in his own name; but his empire was not really established until Antigonus I was defeated at Ipsus in 301 BC, and Asia Minor was not included until Lysimachus was eliminated in Lydia in 281 BC. | | | The last Maccabean brother Simon expelled the Seleucid garrison from Jerusalem, captured the Gazara fortress, secured an alliance with Rome, and established a free Jewish state. | | | Mattathias died the next year, but his son Judas led a guerrilla movement that attacked Seleucids and any Hellenizers. |
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http://www.san.beck.org/EC23-Hellenistic.html
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| | Seleucid dynasty |
| | Friendly relations were kept with the Mauryan kings of northern India, to whom Seleucus I had ceded eastern Pakistan in exchange for war elephants to use against his opponents in the west. | | | Alexander had left his Greek infantry there, since he did not trust them, but historians also suggest that the Achaemenids used to deport rebellious Greek subjects there. | | | Greek settlements in the empire were largely centered in Syria, the capital Antiochia being the most important, and to some extent Babylonia where the city Seleucia on Tigris succeeded Babylon as eastern city of residence. |
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http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/SeleucidDynasty.html
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| | Interpretations Of Bible Prophecy |
| | The 'number of the beast' is not to be confused with the 'mark of the beast', or the 'number of his name' which represents the banking system and currency of the second beast empire - Rev. 13: 16-17. | | | The ten horn kingdoms, will give themselves over to the same beast of war, because of their hatred of the second beast empire, A.K.A. Mystery Babylon, and Israel, and their desire to form an Islamic Empire in the region. | | | These will make war with Mystery Babylon - Revelation 17: 16-17, and Israel in the final days. |
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http://wrightworld.net/interpretations.htm
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| | SELEUCID EMPIRE |
| | Regained Babylon in 312 and extended empire to India. | | | Governed Babylon 321-316 but ousted and fled to Ptolemy in Egypt. | | | This coinage, commemorating Seleukos I, was struck while Pergamon was still loyal to the Seleukids, under their king Antiochos I. Houghton and Lorber (SC), citing Le Rider and Newell, assign this coinage to the aftermath of Antiochos' victory over the Galatians, circa 269/8 BC. |
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http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3xycv/RulersCoins/seleucidPic.htm
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| | Similarly, the discussion of the so-called "First Syrian War" and its chronology (pp. | | | 108-10)." The reader learns that Drews and Kuhrt take different views of Berossos' writing without ever being told just what Berossos said or why this can be interpreted as "covert criticism" or "a view positive to Seleucid rule". | | | What we get, in fact, is a revisionist view of the empire in the third century: not a tottering colossus destined to collapse, but a vibrant and cohesive unit in which Greek and non-Greek cultures and systems are juxtaposed. |
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http://www.infomotions.com/serials/bmcr/bmcr-9402-heckel-from.txt
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| | Parthia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Establishment and Development of Christianity in the Parthian Empire in Transoxiana 6. | | | After the conquest of Media, Assyria, Babylonia and Elam, the Parthians had to organize their empire. | | | The Seleucid monarchs attempted to "hold the line" against the Parthian expansion; Antiochus IV Epiphanes spent his last years on a campaign against the newly emerging Iranian states. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthia
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| | Syria |
| | The Septimii of Palmyra were a clan of mixed Aramaic and Nabataean Arab descent, closely related to the Septimii Severii who ruled the Roman Empire from the late 100's CE. | | | Following Odaenathus' murder in 267, his wife Zenobia took over rule of Palmyra as co-ruler with her young son Vabalathus. | | | Founded by colonists from Arvad in the second millennium BCE, it is today the site of the only well preserved Phoenician temple in the world. |
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http://www.hostkingdom.net/Syria.html
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| | Antiochus invaded Greece and was consequently attacked by the Romans and defeated in 189 | | | Civil war was also waged between Seleucus II and his younger brother Antiochus Hierax. | | | In the Peace of Apamea, Antiochus had to give up much of Asia Minor, andthe Seleucid Empire was no longer a Mediterranean power. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0013
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| | Parthian Empire |
| | Other former satraphies of the Parthian Empire (now independent) are Persia, Elam, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Mesene, | | | Mithradates even had plans to restore the deposed Demetrius against his brother Antiochus VII and rule the remains of the Seleucid Empire through him, but the plan was interupted by his death in 138 BC. | | | Upon his death a civil war broke out between his sons Gotarzes King of Babylon and Orodes I King of Media, both of whom eventually became King of Parthia. |
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http://www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au/home/spotter/Parthian_Empire.html
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| | Bibliography |
| | Smith, S. Babylonian Historical Texts Relating to the Capture and Downfall of Babylon. | | | Downey, G. "The Seleucids: The Theory of Monarchy," in The Greek Political Experience: Essays in Honour of William Kelly Prentice. | | | Hoover, O.D. "The Seleucid Coinage of John Hyrcanus I: The Transformation of a Dynastic Symbol in Hellenistic Judaea," AJN 15 (2003), 29-39. |
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| | Judah Maccabee |
| | The story of the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire in 167 B.C., which is the basis for the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, is an inspiring story of courage and dedication to God. | | | In 175 B.C. Antiochus Epiphanes ascended to rulership of the Seleucid Empire, and he attempted to "Hellenize" the Jews by outlawing all of the rites and customs of the Jewish worship of their God. | | | Mattathias's son Judah organized a small group of men who fled to the Judean hills. |
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http://www.trumpetsounds.com/maccabee.html
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| | Detail Page |
| | The Seleucids' governing and soldiering classes came from a Greek and Macedonian minority based in the western cities and in military colonies throughout; these people ruled a population of Syrians, Persians, Phoenicians, Babylonians, Jews, and others. | | | Seleucus built the Syrian coastal city of Antioch, which later became the Seleucid capital, superseding the prior capital of Seleuceia-on-the-Tigris, in Mesopotamia. | | | Long after the end of the Seleucid Empire, Greek was still the language of commerce, government, and higher learning in the Near East. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=GRE0452
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| | Seleucid articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Seleucid holdings were greatly reduced, particularly by the Egyptians under Ptolemy II. | | | The city was the eastern capital of the Seleucids until the Parthians conquered it. | | | At his accession the Seleucid empire was in decline. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/SearchResults.aspx?Q=Seleucid
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| | The Seleucid Empire |
| | This was the empire from which Parthia gained its independence, and from which it inherited its bureacracy and Greek institutions. | | | In the aftermath of Alexander's death in 323 BC, Seleucos was given the satrapy of Babylon to rule in the name of Alexander's brother and son. | | | During the period of the wars of the Diadochi (the successors of Alexander), Seleukos managed to survive and to eventually establish the largest of the three lasting successor states, the Seleucid empire, which originally encompassed the whole of the eastern portions of Alexander's empire plus Syria and Asia Minor. |
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/parthia/frames/seleucid.htm
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| | Seleucid Empire |
| | The difference is of course that Commagene is the heartland (with Syria) of the old Seleucid Empire and the people there are very loyal to him. | | | The Arsacid Kings of Parthia had never exercised tight control over their empire and around 90 BC some of their vassals began to challenge their rule, with Mesopotamia breaking away in 78 BC under its satrap Artatama, the father of Shutarna. | | | The Arsacid Kings of Parthia had never exercised tight control over their empire and around 90 BC some of their vassals began to challenge their rule. |
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http://www.donaldhs.vic.edu.au/home/spotter/Seleucid_Empire.html
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| | Seleucid Empire, page 1 (Seleucus I - Timarchos) |
| | It began to decline in 190 BC after a first defeat by the Romans and lasted until 64 BC when the last Seleucid king, Antiochus XIII, was murdered by Sampsiceramus, an Arab emir, at the behest of Pompey the Great. | | | The kindom was a major center of Hellenistic culture which maintained the pre-eminence of Greek customs and manners over the Middle East. | | | Athena Promachos standing right with spear and shield; monogram in right field. |
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http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/seleucia/seleucid.html
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| | Project Zeugma, History |
| | After two generations of war, Ptolemies, the Seleucids and the Antigonid kings of Macedon had archieved a sustainable political and military balance. | | | Athens had faded as a political force, but Pergamum, Rhodes, Delos, Pontus on the Black Sea were all independent rising powers. | | | Bactrian Greek rulers, breaking away from the Seleucid empire (c. |
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| | Project Zeugma, History |
| | With decisive victories over both the Macedonians (Cynoscephalae, 197BC) and the Seleucids (Magnesia, 190BC), Rome established herself as the dominant force in the eastern Mediterranean. |
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| | Parthian Empire (247 B.C.-224 A.D.) Special Topics Page Timeline of Art History The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| | While in the west the Seleucids faced the Ptolemies, Alexander's successors in Egypt, in the east, a seminomadic confederacy, the Parni, were on the move. | | | 171–139 B.C.) and his successors, the Parthians grew into the dominant power in the Near East through a series of campaigns against the Seleucids, the Romans, the Greco-Bactrian kingdoms, and the nomads of Central Asia. | | | Along the trade routes that linked ancient and newly established cities, Hellenistic art and culture, a fusion of the various Near Eastern and classical Greek traditions, permeated the Near Eastern world. |
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| | But they have a own pride after one time Macedonia was a "world" empire from Macedonia to East of Persia borderlimit. | | | Since there are so many different leaders available, this is not something that you can compare the different nations on. | | | In addition to which, Macedonia is a poor country; compare the few hundred talents tribute that Macedonia paid to Rome after its conquest, with the alleged 12,000 talent income of Ptolemaic Egypt or the estimated 9,000 talents income of the Seleucid empire. |
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| | 96 BC - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Seleucus VI Epiphanes becomes king of the Seleucid Empire following the death of his father Antiochus VIII Grypus, and defeating in battle Antiochus IX Cyzicenus. | | | Antiochus VIII Grypus, king of the Seleucid Empire (murdered) | | | Antiochus IX Cyzicenus, king of the Seleucid Empire (died in battle) |
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| | outline 13 |
| | First Syrian War, 274-271 BC, against Ptolemy II ( | | | Seleucid dynasty reckoned from 312/311 BC campaigns in the east | | | Seleucid Empire in the 3rd Century BC Antiochus I Soter (r. |
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| | SCC Forums -> The Seleucid Empire |
| | Failure to do so will mean the beginning of your end. | | | There are plus-sides, however; If you surrender then Armenia will have to cease hostilities as they are allied with Egypt at present and we will protect your lands from any foreign invaders. | | | As I said failure to comply will mean war as Egypt will regain its empire by whatever means necessary. |
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| | WWW-VL History Index: IRAN |
| | Early Religions [excerpt from History of the Persian Empire, by A.T. Olmstead, 1998 | | | Chapter One: Physical and Human Geography, by David Kennedy and Derrick Riley (1990) History of the World, Book XLI | | | Persians in the Russian Empire, by H. Hakimian [Considers the year 1896] |
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| | Internet Public Library: Seleucid Empire |
| | SEE ALSO Subject Collections • Associations on the Net | | | Home » Magazines » Arts and Humanities » Classics » By Region » Greater Greece » Seleucid Empire | | | Select "Grok It" for a visualization of your results. |
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| | Houghton (1983) Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the collection of Arthur Houghton |
| | To view the the latter's ratings, click on Chapters/Papers/Articles in the STATISTICS box, select a publication from the list that appears, and then click on either Quality or Interest in that publication's STATISTICS box. | | | Coins, Greek; Seleucids; Private collections; Catalogs; Middle East; Houghton, Arthur; Coin collections | | | Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the collection of Arthur Houghton |
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