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	Seleucid Empire
		The Seleucid Empire was a Hellenistic Greek successor state of Alexander the Great's dominion.
		It was the empire's governmental framework to rule by establishing hundreds of cities for trade and occupational purposes.
		Demetrius Nicator's brother, Antiochus VII, was ultimately able to restore a fleeting unity and vigour to the Seleucid domains, but he too proved unequal to the Parthian threat: he was killed in battle with the Parthians in 129 BC, leading to the final collapse of the Seleucid hold on Babylonia.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/se/seleucid_empire.html (2010 words)

	Persian Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ismail's expansion was halted by the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, and war with the Ottomans became a fact of life in Safavid Iran.
		The German Empire retaliated on behalf of its ally by spreading a rumour that Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany had converted to Islam, and sent agents through Iran to attack the oil fields and raise a Jihad against British rule in India.
		The Persian Empire is the seat of power for the sultan Shahryar, husband of Scheherazade in the 1001 Nights--though the tales themselves span from China to the Middle East and even parts of North Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Persian_Empire (4761 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Persian Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran).
		At the same time, the Seleucids had to contend with the revolt of the Maccabees in Judea and the expansion of the Kushan Empire to the east.
		Ismail's expansion was halted by the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Chaldiran in 1514, and war with the Ottomans became a fact of life in Safavid Persia.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Persian_Empire (4541 words)

	Seleucid Empire - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Alexander the Great had conquered the Persian Empire within a short time-frame and died young, leaving an expansive empire of partly Hellenized culture without adult heir.
		Silver coin of Seleucus I Nicator, founder of the Seleucid Dynasty in 323 BC Seleucus, one of his generals, established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire.
		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.
	voyager.in /Seleucid (1995 words)

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