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ID: 6005337
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6005337
Record Type:
administrative
Seleucid Kingdom (former nation/state/empire)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 05 40 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.0940
decimal degrees
Long: 044 31 20 E
degrees minutes
Long: 44.5220
decimal degrees
Note:
Empire which stretched from Thrace in Europe to the border of India. Founded by Seleucus I Nicator in 312 from the remains of Alexander the Great's empire; it collapsed in 64 BCE.
Names:
Seleucid Kingdom
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Seleucid Empire
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Seleucid Kingdom
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
Place Types:
former nation/state/empire (
preferred
,
C
)
empire (
H
)
kingdom (
H
)
Related geographic places:
capital is ....
Antioch
.......... (deserted settlement)
..................
(World, Asia, Turkey, Hatay) [7002354]
capital is ....
Seleucia
.......... (deserted settlement)
..................
(World, Asia, Iraq, Mayorality of Baghdad) [6005333]
Sources and Contributors:
Seleucid Empire..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
"Alexander Balas"; accessed 10 August 2017
Seleucid Kingdom..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 15 July 2004
.............................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
355
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
accessed 15 July 2004
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
355
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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