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SELEUCID See also:DYNASTY , a See also:line of See also:kings who reigned in Nearer See also:Asia from 312 to 65 B.C.
The founder SELEUCUS (surnamed for later generations Nicator) was a Macedonian, the son of See also:Antiochus, one of See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip's generals. Seleucus, as a See also:young See also:man of about twenty-three, accompanied See also:Alexander into Asia in 333, and won distinction in the See also:Indian See also:campaign of 326. When the Macedonian See also:empire was divided in 323 (the "See also:Partition of See also:Babylon ") Seleucus was given the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of chiliarch (Gr. Xiktot, a thousand), which attached him closely to the See also:person of the See also:regent See also:Perdiccas. Seleucus. himself had a See also:hand in the See also:murder of Perdiccas in 321. At the second partition, at Triparadisus (321), Seleucus was given the See also:government of the Babylonian satrapy. In 316, when Antigonus had made himself See also:master of the eastern provinces, Seleucus See also:felt himself threatened and fled to See also:Egypt. In the See also:war which followed between Antigonus and the other Macedonian chiefs, Seleucus actively co-operated with See also:Ptolemy and commanded See also:Egyptian squadrons in the See also:Aegean. The victory won by Ptolemy at See also:Gaza in 312 opened the way for Seleucus to return to the See also:east. His return to Babylon in that See also:year was afterwards officially regarded as the beginning of the Seleucid empire. Master of Babylonia, Seleucus at once proceeded to wrest the neighbouring provinces of Persist Susiana and See also:Media from the nominees of Antigonus. A See also:raid into Babylonia conducted in 311 by See also:Demetrius, son of Antigonus, did not seriously check Seleucus's progress. Whilst Antigonus was occupied in the See also:west, Seleucus during nine years (31.1-3o2) brought under his authority the whole eastern See also:part of Alexander's empire as far as the Jaxartes and See also:Indus. In 305, after the extinction of the old royal line of See also:Macedonia, Seleucus, like the other four Drincipal Macedonian chiefs, assumed the See also:style of 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,
His See also:attempt, however, to restore Macedonian See also:rule beyond the Indus, where the native Chandragupta had established himself, was not successful. Seleucus entered the See also:Punjab, but felt himself obliged in 302 to conclude a See also:peace with Chandragupta, by which he ceded large districts of See also:Afghanistan in return for 500 elephants. The pressing need for Seleucus once more to take the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field against Antigonus was at any See also:rate in large measure the cause of his See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment of See also:India. In 301 he joined See also:Lysimachus in Asia See also:Minor, and at Ipsus Antigonus See also:fell before their combined See also:power. A new partition of the empire followed, by which Seleucus added to his See also:kingdom See also:Syria, and perhaps some regions of Asia Minor. The See also:possession of Syria gave him an opening to the Mediterranean, and he immediately founded here the new See also:city of See also:Antioch upon the See also:Orontes as his See also:chief seat of government. His previous See also:capital had been the city of See also:Seleucia which he had founded upon the See also:Tigris (almost coinciding in site with See also:Bagdad), and this continued to be the capital for the eastern satrapies. About 293 he installed his son Antiochus there as See also:viceroy, the vast extent of the empire seeming to require a See also:double government. The See also:capture of Demetrius in 285 added to Seleucus's See also:prestige. The unpopularity of Lysimachus after the murder of See also:Agathocles gave Seleucus an opportunity for removing his last See also:rival. His intervention in the west was solicited by Ptolemy, Ceraunus, who, on the See also:accession to the Egyptian See also:throne of his See also:brother Ptolemy II. (285), had at first taken See also:refuge with Lysimachus and then with Seleucus. War between Seleucus and Lysimachus See also:broke out, and on the field of Coru-pedion in See also:Lydia Lysimachus fell (281). Seleucus now saw the whole empire of Alexander, Egypt alone excepted, in his hands, and moved to take possession of Macedonia and See also:Thrace. He intended to leave Asia to Antiochus and content himself for the See also:remainder of his days with the Macedonian kingdom in its old limits. He had, however, hardly crossed into the See also:Chersonese when he was assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus near Lysimachia (281).
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