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  Antiochus III the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The campaigns of 219 BC and 218 BC carried the Seleucid arms almost to the confines of Egypt, but in 217 BC Ptolemy IV confronted Antiochus at the Battle of Raphia and inflicted a defeat upon him which nullified all Antiochus's successes and compelled him to withdraw north of the Lebanon.
Antiochus seemed to have restored the Seleucid empire in the east, and the achievement brought him the title of "the Great King." In 205 BC/204 BC the infant Ptolemy V Epiphanes succeeded to the Egyptian throne, and Antiochus conduded a secret pact with Philip V of Macedon for the partition of the Ptolemaic possessions.
But that recovery proved brief, for in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Scopas at the, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Judea.
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The campaigns of 219 BC and 218 BC carried the Seleucid arms almost to the confines of Egypt, but in 217 BC Ptolemy IV confronted Antiochus at Raphia and inflicted a defeat upon him which nullified all Antiochus's successes and compelled him to withdraw north of the Lebanon.
But the recovery was brief, for in 198 BC Scopas was defeated by Antiochus at the battle of Panium, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Palestine.
By the peace of Apamea (188 BC) the Seleucid king abandoned all the country north of the Taurus, which was distributed among the friends of Rome.
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 Antiochus III the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 209 BC Antiochus invaded Parthia, occupied the capital Hecatompylus and pushed forward into Hyrcania.
Once more Antiochus attacked Judea, and by 199 BC he seems to have had possession of it before the Aetolian, Scopas, recovered it for Ptolemy.
But that recovery proved brief, for in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Scopas at the Battle of Panium, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Judea.
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 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BC), son of Seleucus I. He did not, like his father, seek to expand in Europe.
247 BC, king of Syria (261?-247 BC), son and successor of Antiochus I. In warfare with Ptolemy II he had sporadic successes, but his marriage to Ptolemy's daughter Berenice sealed the peace, and most of the Syrian possessions his father had lost were restored to Antio...
187 BC, king of Syria (223-187 BC), son of Seleucus II and younger brother of Seleucus III, whom he succeeded.
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 Seleucid dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Seleucus I Nicator (Nicator, "the Victor") (around 358-281 BC) was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, after Alexander's death in 323 BC, founded the Seleucid Empire.
Antiochus VII Sidetes (or Euergetes) (138 - 129 BC)
(Tigranes I of Armenia) (83 - 69 BC)
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 Scipio Africanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
¹) (236 - 183 BC) was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic.
When the Scipiones returned to Rome, two tribunes prosecuted (187) Lucius on the grounds of misappropriation of money received from Antiochus.
As Lucius was in the act of producing his account-books, his brother wrested them from his hands, tore them in pieces, and flung them on the floor of the Senate house.
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 Interactive History Chart 200 BC - AD 100
The Ptolemies controlled Palestine until 198 BC when Ptolemy V's army was defeated by the Seleucid king Antiochus III, The Great, at Baneas near one of the sources of the Jordan River.
In 170 BC, when Antiochus was campaigning in Egypt, there was a rumor of the king's death, and Jason led a revolt, which brought Antiochus to Jerusalem, where his army proceeded to rob, pillage, rape, and enslave the people.
In 152 BC he became the first Hasmonean to take the roles of both ruler and priest, when he was offered the priesthood by Alexander Balas, a pretender to the Seleucid throne.
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 Antiochus III the Great - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Antiochus III the Great, (ruled 223 - 187 BC), younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became ruler of the Seleucid kingdom as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC.
Once more Antiochus attacked Palestine, and by 199 BC he seems to have had possession of it before the Aetolian, Scopas, recovered it for Ptolemy.
But that recovery proved brief, for in 198 BC Antiochus defeated Scopas at the battle of Panium, near the sources of the Jordan, a battle which marks the end of Ptolemaic rule in Palestine.
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 Antiochus III Megas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Antiochus III was born in 242 BC, the son of Seleucus II, near Susa, Iran.
He was the Seleucid king of the Hellenistic Syrian Empire from 223 to 187 BC, and rebuilt the empire in the East but failed in his attempt to challenge Roman ascendancy in Europe and Asia Minor.
In 187 Antiochus was murdered in a Baal temple near Susa, where he was exacting tribute in order to obtain much needed revenue.
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 ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Antiochus III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Antiochus III, called The Great (242-187 bc), king of Syria (223-187 bc), the son of Seleucus II and brother of Seleucus III, whom he succeeded.
In 612 bc Armenia was conquered by Media, which...
After the death of Alexander in 323 bc, the Greeks became a political as well as a cultural danger to the Jews.
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283 BC - 247 BC...............................................................280 BC - 262 BC Ptolemy III Euergetes.......................................................
205 BC - 181 BC................................................................226 BC - 223 BC Ptolemy VI Philometer.......................................................
Her influence engaged him in a war with Ptolemy Philadelphus, King of the South in 260 BC, which was terminated in 252 BC by a marriage between Antiochus and Bernice, Ptolemy's daughter.
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 187 BC
187 BC Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC
Decades: 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC - 180s BC - 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC 130s BC
In Rome, tribunes demand that Lucius Cornelius Scipio explain what happened to the 500 talents (around $300,000) that he received from Antiochus III the Great after the Battle of Magnesia, but Scipio refuses.
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 Lepidus on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
152 BC, was a consul in 187 and 175 BC, a censor in 179 BC, and pontifex maximus [high priest] from 180 BC He served with distinction in the war with Antiochus III of Syria.
As consul (78 BC), he was bitterly opposed to the senatorial leader Catulus (d.
13 BC, was praetor (49 BC) and consul (46 BC) with Caesar.
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 BC Network of Community Health Centres   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Comox Valley Nursing Centre began in 1994 as a provincial demonstration project initiated by the BC Ministry of Health and the Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia.
B.C. Ambulance Service is a volunteer 24/7 service situated in the same building.
The Houston Health Centre is a community health centre offering a wide spectrum of health services under one roof to the residents of Houston and the surrounding area.
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 191 BC
Decades: 240s BC 230s BC 220s BC 210s BC 200s BC - 190s BC - 180s BC 170s BC 160s BC 150s BC 140s BC
Chinese Emperor Hui Di[?] lifts the ban on Confucian writings begun in 213 BC
Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC)[?]: Romans under Marcus Acilius Glabrio[?] defeat Antiochus III the Great and force him to withdraw from Greece.
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 coins of ancient China - 255 BC to AD 221.
It is commonly accepted that in 221 BC, at the time of the unification, Ch'in introduced the Pan (pronounced "Ban") Liang coinage, discontinuing knife and spade coinage.
187-180 BC During the reign of Empress Kao (187-180 BC) the Pan Liang was reduced to a weight of 8 shu.
About 47 BC, Mang was born into the most powerful family in China, a family that effectively ruled through a series of puppet Han emperors.
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 Bible Study - The Seleucids
Seleucus was the Macedonian general who, as one of the Diadochi, or Successors, of Alexander, acquired the vast eastern section of the empire centered on the territory of the old Babylonian empire (see Ancient Empires - Babylon).
From him was established the Seleucid Dynasty that lasted for two and a quarter centuries from 312 B.C. Seleucus received the satrapy of Babylonia in 321 B.C. from Antipater, the administrator of Alexander's kingdom.
This included their heathen religion, which from the perspective of Bible History, reached its most outrageous extreme in 167 B.C. when Antiochus IV Epiphanes (see above) entered the Temple of God (see Temples) in Jerusalem, erected an altar to the pagan god Zeus, and sacrificed a pig on it (see Clean and Unclean).
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 190 BC
Years: 195 BC 194 BC 193 BC 192 BC 191 BC - 190 BC - 189 BC 188 BC 187 BC 186 BC 185 BC
Battle of the Eurymedon (190 BC)[?] Roman forces under Lucius Aemilius Regillus[?] defeat a Seleucid fleet commanded by Hannibal, fighting his last battle.
Hipparchus, Greek astronomer and mathematician, in Nicaea, Bithynia (now Turkey) (+ 120 BC) (approximate date, another possible date is 194 BC).
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 Miscellenous ancient coins
It was a powerful state in the 6th centuty B.C. but was weakened by a series of wars with the neighboring kingdom of Magadha and finally (4th cent.
KarshapanaPeriod of Chandragupta (circa 321 - 297 BC).
The Kingdom of Kuninda was an ancient central Himalayan kingdom from around the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century, located in the modern state of Uttaranchal in northern India.
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Ptolemy Lathyrus (88-80 BC) unsuccessfully attacks Sepphoris on a Sabbath during the reign of the Hasmonean ruler Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BC).
The high priest Johanan is also mentioned in a letter dating to 408 BC sent by the Jews of Elephantine Island in Upper Egypt to Bagoas, governor of Yehud, asking for support in their attempts to rebuild their temple on that island.
Khirbat al-Mudaybi is a mid-size Iron Age fort constructed around 700 BC on the eastern Karak Plateau of Central Jordan, between the king's and desert highways.
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 Antiochus III on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although Antiochus did not succeed in totally restoring the greatness of the Seleucid dynasty, he did much to revive its glory.
He led an expedition (212-205 BC) to the eastern provinces and went as far as India.
Although he was defeated earlier by the Egyptians at Raphia (modern Rafa), he and Philip V of Macedon undertook (202 BC) to wrest Egyptian territories from the boy king, Ptolemy V. Antiochus did not properly appreciate the growing power of Rome.
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 Greek Rule -- Ptolemies & Seleucids
In 252 BC a peace agreement was finally reached after neither side was able to defeat the other.
In the year 221 BC, Ptolemy III died and was succeeded by Ptolemy IV, Philopater, who was without a doubt the most cruel and vicious ruler of the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
In 198 BC the Seleucids, under Antiochus III, finally took control of Palestine, which control they held, more or less (mostly less), until the coming of the Romans in 63 BC.
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 Bible Picture Library of LineArt
Coin of Antiochus I Soter 280-261 BC Note: Different browsers all have slightly different capabilities and terminology.
Coin of Antiochus V Eupator 164-162 BC Note: Different browsers all have slightly different capabilities and terminology.
Coin of Antiochus VI Tryphon 142-139 BC Note: Different browsers all have slightly different capabilities and terminology.
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 186 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Years: 191 BC 190 BC 189 BC 188 BC 187 BC - 186 BC - 185 BC 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC 181 BC
The Roman Senate passes a law (the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus) prohibiting Bacchanalia -- or the worship of Dionysus -- except under certain circumstances that required the approval of the Senate.
You have it is true, a great deal of time before.
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 Seleucid Empire, page 1 (Seleucus I - Timarchos)
Seleucus was assassinated by the disgruntled son of Ptolomy in 281 BC.
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.
Son of Antiochus I. Coregent 266 - 261 BC; Sole Reign 261 - 246 BC.
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 Demetrius I Soter --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The son of King Seleucus IV Philopator (reigned 187 to 175), Demetrius was sent to Rome as a hostage during his father's reign.
While he was away, Syria came under the rule of his uncle, Antiochus IV Ephiphanes (d.
In about 1000 BC in Byblos and other Phoenician and Canaanite centers, the sign was given a linear form (3), the source of all later forms.
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 Station Information - 189 BC
189 BC Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC
Years: 194 BC 193 BC 192 BC 191 BC 190 BC - 189 BC - 188 BC 187 BC 186 BC 185 BC 184 BC
The Aetolian Confederacy is effectively dissolved by Rome.
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 The mints of the autonomous cities (2nd c. BC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 188/7 BC, twenty years before the Macedonians' defeat by the Romans, Philip V decided to reopen those mines that had been closed down, and grant minting rights to specific Macedonian districts and cities.
For the first time since the 4th century BC large quantities of silver and bronze coins were issued by the "Macedonian People", the districts of Amphaxitis and Bottiaia and individual cities.
These mints continued until 168 BC, the year of Perseus' defeat by the Romans.
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 187 BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
187 BC Centuries : 3rd centuryBC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC
Years : 192 BC 191 BC 190 BC 189 BC 188 BC - 187 BC - 186 BC 185 BC 184 BC 183 BC 182 BC
In Rome, tribunes demandthat Lucius Cornelius Scipio explain what happened to500 talents he received from Antiochus III the Great after the Battle of Magnesia, but Scipio refuses.
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