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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. | | | In Asia Minor too, the Seleucid dynasty seemed to be losing control -- Gauls had fully established themselves in Galatia, semi-independent semi-Hellenized kingdoms had sprung up in Bithynia, Pontus, and Cappadocia, and the city of Pergamum in the west was asserting its independence under the Attalid Dynasty. | | | The Seleucid empire's geographic span, from the Aegean Sea to Afghanistan, brought together a multitude of races: Greeks, Persians, Medes, Jews, Indians, to remember only some. |
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| | SELEUCID DYNASTY - LoveToKnow Article on SELEUCID DYNASTY |
| | Antiochus perishedin a fresh expedition to the east in Luristan (187).The Seleucid kingdom as Antiochus left it to his son, SELEUCUS IV. | | | His return to Babylon in that year was afterwards officially regarded as the beginning of the Seleucid empire. | | | A new partition of the empire followed, by which Seleucus added to his kingdom Syria, and perhaps some regions of Asia Minor. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SELEUCID_DYNASTY.htm
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| | Seleucid kingdom -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a 2nd-century-BC Seleucid king, desecrated the Temple in Jerusalem; a successful Jewish revolt under the Maccabees, a priestly family, resulted in its purification (164 BC) and in freedom from Syrian... | | | The Seleucids brought to the problem of the administration of Palestine a different tradition from that which had been behind Ptolemaic rule. | | | The history of Iraq begins with that of ancient Mesopotamia, which became established with the emigration of the Sumerians from Iran and northern Anatolia around 3000 BC. |
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| | BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND TO THE NEW TESTAMENT |
| | At the time he was involved in a successful campaign against the Ptolemaic kingdom to the south of Judea, and on his return to Syria in 169 BCE, invaded Jerusalem, slaughtered many Jews who opposed him, and plundered the Temple. | | | There was a political faction of Jews in Judea that was in favor of the Hellenization of Jewish society, to whom 1 and 2 Maccabees refer in unfavorable terms (These men are called "men outside the law" or "the lawless men"). | | | The period of time from Judas' victory until the conquest of Judea by the Roman general Pompey saw the expansion of the Jewish state through conquest under the leadership of the Hasmoneans (the Maccabeans) and their descendants, though they continued to fight with the Seleucids and with Jews who were opposed to them. |
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| | A General History of the Near East, Chapter 6 |
| | Fortunately for him, the Seleucid kingdom had degenerated to the point that Jewish independence was no longer an issue. | | | Incidentally, Eleazar, a brother of Judas Maccabeus, was killed because in one battle, he demonstrated to his troops how to kill a Seleucid war elephant by stabbing it from underneath with a pike, and the elephant fell on him. | | | The Ptolemies completed their control over the coast of Greek Asia Minor by supporting the city of Pergamun when it revolted against the Seleucids; Antiochus was killed in battle when he attempted to recover it. |
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| | IRANIAN HISTORY: PARTHIANS: Dynasty of Arsacid Empire - (CAIS) © |
| | This Mithridates and his successors achieved in a series of campaigns against the Seleucid invaders and later the Romans in the west, and in the east against the Greco-Bactrian kingdom and the nomadic peoples who again and again emerged from the steppes between the Oxus and the Jaxartes. | | | The movements of the Parni and Dahae beginning in the area between the Oxus and the Jaxartesand ending in the immediate vicinity of the Seleucid satrapy of Parthava, are difficult to reconstruct and therefore a matter of dispute among historians. | | | The invasion in the northeast was successfully repulsed, then the Seleucid ruler Demetrius II, after making initial gains, was taken prisoner. |
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http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/History/ashkanian/arsacid_dynasty.htm
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| | Rabbi Scheinerman's Home Page - History of Chanukah |
| | Neither the Seleucids (the Greek power in Damascus) nor many Jews accepted the Hasmonean family as the governing priesthood. | | | When a Seleucid ordered Mattathias to participate in a foreign sacrifice in Modi'in, he refused and slew a Jew who cam forward to obey the command. | | | In 165 B.C.E., A group of Jews successfully rebelled against the Seleucid King Antiochus. |
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http://scheinerman.net/judaism/chanukah/history.html
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| | History of the Hellenistic and Roman World |
| | The Bithynians were a Thracian people who had settled in Asia-Minor and nominally under the rule of or allied to, first the Persians and then the various Successors. | | | Invited to settle a civil war between Hyrcanus II and his brother, Aristobulus II, Pompey took the opportunity conquor the Jews. | | | Mutiny among his troops and lack of adequate support from Rome hampered Lucullus' operations, and Mithridates managed to recover some of his kingdom. |
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| | The Race Change in Ancient Italy! 300 B. C. and 300 A. D. |
| | This city was new Babylon, the capital of the Seleucid empire. | | | Thus, there was a historical continuity in government all the way from Assyria to the Seleucid kingdom (Tarn, ibid., p. | | | This was to get the priesthood on their side in governing the people. |
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| | Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 155 |
| | After Ptolemy married the energeticArsinoe II, however, the war turned against the Seleucids, and about273-272, Phoenicia and the coast of Asia Minor were lost to Egypt. | | | Although the empire that Seleucus inherited was not so great as the oneover which his father had ruled before the war with Rome (190-189), itwas still large, consisting of Syria (including Cilicia and Palestine),Mesopotamia, Babylonia, and nearer Iran (Media and Persia). | | | Seleucus once again turned his attention to returning to Babylonia, andin August 312 he was able to reconquer Babylon with only a small army.This conquest marked the beginning of the Seleucid era, which is datedDios 1 (Oct. 7), 312, in the Macedonian calendar and Nisan 1 (April 3),311, in the Babylonian calendar. |
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| | Seleucid dynasty |
| | 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. | | | Then Antiochus III attacked independent Bactria, which would not yield. | | | Cappadocia governed itself as a vassal of the Seleucids, and Ariarathes III was named king there in 255 BC. |
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| | History of the Syrian Kingdom of the Seleucids |
| | The great empire, which bad once reached from Phrygia to the Indus, had shrunk to the dimensions of a province; and there was no spirit in either prince or people to make any effort to regain what had been lost. | | | The Eastern provinces were, however, completely lost, and no attempt was made to recover them. | | | The only success which attended him was in his war with Egypt, at the close of which he recovered what he had previously lost to Philadelphus in Asia Minor. |
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| | Bactrian and Indo-Greeks (250 BC - 55 BC) - DBA 50 |
| | However, it was not the Greeks they came in contact with - by this time they had been driven out by the Yueh-Chi. | | | Demitrios became an Indian folk hero called Dharma-mitra because of his successful campaigns (To this day Dharma-mitra is a common Indian name). | | | Eventually the Indo-Greeks were conquered by the Yueh-Chi, or the Transoxian barbarians, who crushed the Indo-Greek kingdoms. |
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| | Pergamum Kingdom |
| | He had little interest in public affairs and was disliked by the people for he had tested toxic on peoples and criminals. | | | Attalus was succeeded by his son Eumenes II who would do not less than his father for his kingdom. | | | From there they attacked the Pergamum Kingdom numerous times. |
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http://www.ancientanatolia.com/historical/pergamum_kingdom.htm
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| | The Seleucid Empire (Syria) |
| | In the west, Rome became too powerful to resist; they backed the Jews, who liberated themselves in the years after 165 (the so-called Maccabaean revolt). | | | His kingdom had two capitals, which he founded in c.300: Antioch in Syria (pictures) and Seleucia in Mesopotamia. | | | In the southwest, the Seleucid kings fought several "Syrian wars" with the Egyptians; in 200, their king was forced to cede Palestine to Antiochus III. |
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| | Hellenistic period - Society |
| | The reasons for which the Seleucids applied the Greek immigration in their kingdom should be traced in military and political expediency, with the purpose of creating a solid basis in order to rule such an extensive kingdom. | | | A question of a particular interest is whether the Seleucids through the policy of immigration aimed to hellenize their kingdom and unify it through the prevalence of Greek institutions and the Greek way of living. | | | In the Seleucid kingdom -as in the rest of the Hellenistic kingdoms- the coexistence of Greeks with other peoples led to mutual influence in the way of living and thinking, as well as to the embracing of new elements from all population groups. |
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http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/06/en/society/104seleucid1.html
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| | Parthians, A History Of |
| | The end of the Parthian kingdom was near, and the advent of the Sasanians brought a new phase in the history of Mesopotamia. | | | The center of the lower kingdoms was ancient Babylonia, called Beth Aramaye in Aramaic, and it was governed directly by the Parthian ruler. | | | 112) the Parthian empire consisted of 18 kingdoms, 11 of which were called the upper kingdoms (or satrapies), while 7 were called lower kingdoms, meaning that they were located on the plains of Mesopotamia. |
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| | PTOLEMY - LoveToKnow Article on PTOLEMY |
| | But in 147 Philometor broke with him and transferred his support, together with the person of Cleopatra, to Demetrius II., the young son of Demetrius I. He himself at Antioch was entreated by the people to assume the Seleucid diadem, but he declined and installed Demetrius as king. | | | had bequeathed his kingdom to the Roman people. | | | By his will he left the Cyrenalca as a separate kingdom to his illegitimate son Ptolemy Apion (11696), whilst Egypt and Cyprus were bequeathed to Cleopatra (Kokke) and whichever of his two sons by her, PTOLEMY VIII. |
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| | Daniel Is False Prophecy |
| | The author of Daniel was not only a false prophet; he was also a fraud. | | | The third kingdom, according to Daniel 11:2, would have four more kings, the fourth of whom would be far richer than the others, and stir up his subjects against Greece. | | | The fourth kingdom is described in some detail. |
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http://www.hotcom.net/users/shagbark/daniel.html
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| | Holy City: Seleucid |
| | ("the Great"), scion of the Seleucids ruling the Eastern parts of the lands conquered by Alexander, asserts his claim to Coele-Syria (including Judah/Palestine) by several military campaigns. | | | The Seleucid kingdom had reached the zenith of its power. | | | Under Seleucid king Antiochus IV.'s ("Epiphanes") internal strife and external force culminate in an attempt to suspend the Torah and to convert Jerusalem into a Hellenistic polis (renamed "Antioch in Ioudaia"). |
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| | His son Eumenes II (197 - 159 BC) made alliances with the Romans who had entered Asia Minor. | | | Assuring the Seleucids of his loyalty he founded his own kingdom. | | | Antiochos I Epiphanes (69 - 31 BC) claimed descent from the Seleucids by the marriage of his father Mithridates I with Laodike, the daughter of the last Seleucid king Antiochos VIII Philometor Grypos. |
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| | Daniel 11 Explained |
| | "King Antiochus returning out of Egypt for fear of the Romans, made an expedition against the city Jerusalem; and when he was there, in the hundred and forty-third year of the kingdom of the Seleucidse, he took the city without fighting, those of his own party opening the gates to him. | | | Da 11:4 And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those. | | | Da 11:17 He shall also set his face to enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him; thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. |
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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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| | History of Iran: Parthian Empire |
| | One of the Parthian leaders was named Gondopharnes, king of Taxila; according to an old and widespread Christian tradition, he was baptized by the apostle Thomas. | | | The Parthian monarch was the ruler of his own empire plus some eighteen vassal kings, such as the rulers of the city state Hatra, the port Characene and the ancient kingdom Armenia. | | | The Parthian kings -Arsaces I, Arsaces II, Phriapathus, Phraates I- recognized the Seleucid king as their superiors, especially after the campaign of Antiochus III the Great, who reconquered the lost eastern territories between 209 and 204 BCE. |
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| | The COININDIA Coin Galleries: Seleucid: Seleucos I |
| | This magnificent specimen of the Greek celator's art was issued by Seleucos I after he had established the Seleucid kingdom. | | | Perhaps Seleucos sensed the early rumblings that led eventually to the Bactrian revolt around 255 BCE. | | | This tiny jewel of a coin, at only 9 mm. |
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| | Seleucid Coins, Part I: Seleucus I-Antiochus III |
| | Seleucid Coins, Part I, lists, reign-by-reign and mint-by-mint, the totality of the known coins of the Seleucid kings of Asia from the dynasty’s founding by Seleucus I Nicator in 313/2 B.C. to the death of Antiochus III (The Great) in 187. | | | It is organized to allow the easy identification of individual coins, while at the same time providing great depth of history and interpretation of the material. | | | Seleucid Coins is designed for those newly interested in the field as well as for those with special interests in the disciplines of numismatics, archaeology, history, and art history. |
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| | Cutlery Definitions and Related History |
| | Toledo prospered as a capital of the Visigothic kingdom, and it was the scene of several important church councils. | | | After the death of Alexander in 323 BC, Damascus became part of the Seleucid Kingdom. | | | Under the Moors and later under the kings of Castile, who made it their chief residence, Toledo was a center of the Moorish, Spanish, and Jewish cultures and thus a great center for translation (its School of Translators was revived in 1995). |
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http://cutlerscove.com/kwg/cutlery-definitions.htm
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| | History of a Family from Asia Minor |
| | Ancient Greeks were citizens of Athens, Sparta, Thebes, the kingdom of Macedonia, etc. Therefore an ancient word used to denote a linguistic/cultural group was taken to denote a modern ethnic state. | | | The ancient use of the word Hellenas implied only a person speaking a particular language and provided no ethnic connotation or citizenship. | | | The Empire came into existence between the 13th and 15th centuries by the conquest of the Armenian kingdom, the territories of the Seljuk Turks (who had arrived there in the 10th century), the Arab countries, and the Eastern Roman Empire (the so called Byzantine Empire, see glossary). |
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| | ARMENIAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION - CAL POLY SAN LUIS OBISPO |
| | B.C. Foundation of Dushba (Van), Capital of the Kingdom of Urartu | | | 521-520 B.C. The revolt of the Armenia against the Achamenid Kingdom of Iran | | | 190 B.C. Battle of Magnesia and the defeat of Seleucids by the Romans |
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http://www.calpoly.edu/~asaclub/impdates.htm
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| | Seleucid dynasty -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Seleucus I Nicator (Nicator, "the Victor") (around (additional info and facts about 358) 358–281 BC) was one of (King of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)) Alexander the Great's generals who, after Alexander's death in 323 BC, founded the (additional info and facts about Seleucid Empire) Seleucid Empire. | | | [Categories: Syrian history, Seleucid rulers, Ancient Greek titles, Persian history] | | | (additional info and facts about Full list of Iranian Kingdoms) Full list of Iranian Kingdoms |
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