| The Seleucids echeloned their right cavalry wing forward to gain tactical advantage. |
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| Although honorific epithets were commonplace for the Seleucids and Ptolemies, the nicknames of all other members of the Antigonid family were either uncertain or insulting. |
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| Paul, as a native of Asia Minor, would have been familiar with the Hellenistic colony-cities of Judean mercenaries founded by the Seleucids to control the local inhabitants. |
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| The political division of the land into 19 or 20 small satrapies, which is found later, under the Parthians, began under the Seleucids. |
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| Outside these old towns, the first Seleucids developed an important politics of city founding. |
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| The old Mesopotamian cities continued, as in the preceding period, their own life under the Seleucids. |
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| It was already remarked that the Seleucids controlled their territory by a division in satrapies, eparchies and hipparchies. |
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| Other coins dating back to the times of the Seleucids Kingdom have been discovered on the same island. |
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| Seleucids had constructed ports in the Persian Gulf due to same intentions. |
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| This service had been interrupted by the Seleucids and all the oil in the Temple had been defiled. |
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| Now not only Rome's allies against Philip, but even Philip himself, sought a Roman alliance against the Seleucids. |
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| The remarkable thing is that the Hasidim-Pharisees who were the fathers of the Talmud did not wish to record therein their war and the military victory against the Seleucids. |
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| We know, on the other hand, that the Seleucids, as well as later the Parthians, had a number of indigenous entities incorporated in their states, as already the Achaemenids had. |
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| The Seleucids inherited the Achaemenid administrative order: they maintained the system of satrapies, which were divided in minor subunits, the eparchies and hipparchies. |
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| This corresponded with the Maccabean Revolt directed against the Seleucids. |
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| They even established a major garrison in Sicily in case the Seleucids ever got to Italy. |
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| Like the Spartans, the Seleucids lost the battle, and were forced to evacuate Greece. |
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| The Romans pursued the Seleucids by crossing the Hellespont, which marked the first time a Roman army had ever entered Asia. |
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| The Seleucids sued for peace, and Rome forced them to give up their recent Greek conquests. |
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| It became a battlefield between the Seleucids, the Parthians, the Romans and the Sassanids. |
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