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See also:ANTIOCHUS I . See also:SOTER (324 or 323–262) was See also:half a See also:Persian, his See also:mother Apame being one of those eastern princesses whom See also:Alexander had given as wives to his generals in 324. On the assassination of his See also:father (281), the task of holding together the See also:empire was a formidable one, and a revolt in See also:Syria See also:broke out almost immediately. With his father's murderer, See also:Ptolemy, Antiochus was soon compelled to make See also:peace, abandoning apparently See also:Macedonia and See also:Thrace. In See also:Asia See also:Minor he was unable to reduce See also:Bithynia or the Persian dynasties which ruled in See also:Cappadocia. In 278 the Gauls broke into Asia Minor, and a victory which Antiochus won over these hordes is said to have been the origin of his See also:title of Soter (Gr. for " saviour "). At the end of 275 the question of See also:Palestine, which had been open between the houses of Seleucus and Ptolemy since the See also:partition of 301, led to hostilities (the " First Syrian See also:War "). It had been continuously in Ptolemaic occupation, but the See also:house of Seleucus maintained its claim. War did not materially See also:change the out-lines of the two kingdoms, though frontier cities like See also:Damascus and the See also:coast districts of Asia Minor might change hands. About 262 Antiochus tried to break the growing See also:power of See also:Pergamum by force of arms, but suffered defeat near See also:Sardis and died soon afterwards (262). His eldest son Seleucus, who had ruled in the See also:east as See also:viceroy from 275 (?) till 268/7, was put to See also:death in that See also:year by his father on the See also:charge of See also:rebellion (See also:Wace, J.H.S. See also:xxv., 1905, p. 101 f.). He was succeeded (261) by his second son ANTIOCHUS II. THEOS (286-246), whose mother was the Macedonian princess Stratonice, daughter of See also:Demetrius Poliorcetes. War with See also:Egypt still went on along the coasts of Asia Minor (the " Second Syrian War "). Antiochus also made some See also:attempt to get a footing in Thrace. About 250 peace was concluded between Antiochus and Ptolemy II., Antiochus repudiating his wife Laodice and marrying Ptolemy's daughter See also:Berenice, but by 246 Antiochus had See also:left Berenice and her See also:infant son in See also:Antioch to live again with Laodice in Asia Minor. Laodice poisoned him and proclaimed her son SELEUCUS II. CALLINICUS(reigned 246–227) See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, whilst her partisans at Antioch made away with Berenice and her son. Berenice's See also:brother, Ptolemy III., who had just succeeded to the See also:Egyptian See also:throne,
See also:DYNASTY
at once invaded the Seleucid See also:realm and marched victoriously to the See also:Tigris or beyond, receiving the submission of the eastern provinces, whilst his fleets swept the coasts of Asia Minor. In the interior of Asia Minor Seleucus maintained himself, and when Ptolemy returned to Egypt he recovered See also:Northern Syria and the nearer provinces of See also:Iran. In Asia Minor his younger brother Antiochus See also:Hierax was put up against him by a party to which Laodice herself adhered. At See also:Ancyra (about 235 ?) Seleucus sustained a crushing defeat and left the See also:country beyond the See also:Taurus to his brother and the other See also:powers of the See also:peninsula. Of these Pergamum now See also:rose to greatness under Attalus I., and Antiochus Hierax perished as a fugitive in Thrace in 228/7. A year later Seleucus was killed by a fall from his See also:horse. His See also:elder son, SELEUCUS III. SOTER (reigned 227–223), took up the task of reconquering Asia Minor from Attalus, but See also:fell by a See also:conspiracy in his own See also:camp.
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