Examples of Seleucus in the following topics:
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- Seleucus I fought to defend these territories, but both sides made peace in 303 BCE.
- Seleucus established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, the year used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire.
- In 305 BCE, Seleucus I tried to reconquer the northwestern parts of India in order to claim them for the growing Seleucid Empire.
- Seleucus lost the Seleucid-Mauryan War, and the two rulers reconciled with a peace treaty.
- Chandragupta extended the borders of the Maurya Empire toward Seleucid Persia, after defeating Seleucus c. 305 BCE.
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- Seleucus, one of Alexander's generals, received Babylonia and, from there, expanded his dominions to include much of Alexander's near eastern territories.
- Seleucus established himself in Babylon in 312 BC, the year used as the foundation date of the Seleucid Empire.
- After the death of Seleucus in 281 BCE, his successors faced invasions to the west, diminishing their control over the Eastern portions of the Empire.
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- It was founded
by Seleucus I Nicator following the dissolution of Alexander the Great’s
empire.
- Following Ptolemy’s successes in the Wars of the Diadochi, Seleucus,
then a senior officer in the Macedonian Royal Army, received Babylonia.
- Seleucus himself traveled as far as
India in his campaigns.
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- Chandragupta then defeated the invasion led by Seleucus I, a Macedonian general from Alexander's army, and gained additional territory west of the Indus River.
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- The Babylonian astronomer Seleucus of Seleucia (b. 190 BCE) supported a heliocentric model of planetary motion.