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Antiochus III(Antiochus the Great)

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Born: 242 AD
Died: 187 AD.

Nationality: Syrian
Categories: King

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241 BC - Antiochus III the Great was born.

221 BC - Antiochus at last went east, and the rebellion of Molon and Alexander collapsed.

216 BC - Antiochus went north to deal with Achaeus.

213 BC - Antiochus contrived to get possession of the person of Achaeus, but the citadel held out under Achaeus' widow Laodice and then surrendered.

212 BC - He obliged Xerxes of Armenia to acknowledge his supremacy.

209 BC - Antiochus invaded Parthia, occupied the capital Hecatompylus and pushed forward into Hyrcania.

192 BC - Antiochus invaded Greece with a 10,000 men army, and was elected Aetolians commander in chief.

191 BC - However, the Romans under Manius Acilius Glabrio routed him at Thermopylae and obliged him to withdraw to Asia.

187 BC - Antiochus mounted a fresh expedition to the east in Luristan, where he died in an attempt to rob a temple at Elymaïs, Persia.





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