The Vergina Sun remained a principal standard of the Seleucid dynasty, although the anchor and elephant were more prevalent.
Country
Syria, Persia
Founded
312 BC
Founder
Seleucus I
Final ruler
Philip II Philoromaeus
Titles
Lord of Asia
Shahanshah
Basileus of Persia
Basileus of Syria
King of Babylonia
King of Armenia
King of Macedon (claimed)
Dissolution
64 BC
Cadet branches
Diodotid dynasty (Bactria)(?)
History of Greater Iran
Pre-Islamic
BCE / BC
Prehistory
Kura–Araxes culture
c. 3400 – c. 2000
Proto-Elamite civilization
3200–2800
Elamite dynasties
2800–550
Jiroft culture
Mannaea
Lullubi/Zamua
Gutians
Cyrtian
Corduene
Bactria–Margiana Complex
2200–1700
Avestan period
c. 1500 BCE – 500 BCE
Kingdom of Mannai
10th–7th century
Neo-Assyrian Empire
911–609
Urartu
860–590
Median Empire
728–550
Scythian Kingdom
652–625
Achaemenid Empire
550–330
Ancient kingdom of Armenia
331 BCE – 428 CE
Seleucid Empire
330–150
Caucasian Iberia
c. 302 BCE – 580 CE
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
250–125
Parthian Empire
248 BCE–224 CE
Caucasian Albania
2nd century BCE – 8th century CE
Roman Empire
27 BCE – 330 CE
CE / AD
Kushan Empire
30–275
Sasanian Empire
224–651
Afrighid dynasty
305–995
Hephthalite Empire
425–557
Kabul Shahi kingdom
565–879
Dabuyid dynasty
642–760
Bagratid Armenia
880s – 1045
Alania
8th/9th century – 1238 / 9
Kingdom of Georgia
1008–1490
Islamic
Rashidun Caliphate
637–651
Umayyad Caliphate
661–750
Abbasid Caliphate
750–1258
Shirvanshah
799–1607
Tahirid dynasty
821–873
Dulafid dynasty
840–897
Zaydis of Tabaristan
864–928
Saffarid dynasty
861–1003
Samanid Empire
819–999
Sajid dynasty
889/90–929
Ziyarid dynasty
928–1043
Buyid dynasty
934–1055
Sallarid dynasty
941–1062
Ghaznavid Empire
975–1187
Ghurid dynasty
pre-879 – 1215
Seljuk Empire
1037–1194
Khwarazmian dynasty
1077–1231
Sultanate of Rum
1077–1307
Salghurids
1148–1282
Ilkhanate
1256–1353
Kart dynasty
1231–1389
Ottoman Empire
1299–1923
Muzaffarid dynasty
1314–1393
Chupanid dynasty
1337–1357
Jalairid Sultanate
1339–1432
Timurid Empire
1370–1507
Qara Qoyunlu Turcomans
1407–1468
Aq Qoyunlu Turcomans
1378–1508
Safavid Empire
1501–1722
Mughal Empire
1526–1857
Hotak dynasty
1722–1729
Afsharid Iran
1736–1750
Zand dynasty
1750–1794
Durrani Empire
1794–1826
Qajar Iran
1794–1925
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Periods and dynasties of Babylon
All years are BC
Old Babylonian
Amorite dynasty
I
c. 1894–1595
First Sealand dynasty
II
c. 1732–1475
Kassite
Kassite dynasty
III
c. 1594–1155
Middle Babylonian
Second Dynasty of Isin
IV
c. 1157–1026
Second Sealand dynasty
V
c. 1025–1005
Bazi dynasty
VI
c. 1004–985
Elamite dynasty
VII
c. 984–979
Dynasty of E
VIII
c. 978–732
Neo-Assyrian
Assyrian dynasty (combined rule of the Adaside dynasty and the Sargonid dynasty)
IX
732–626
Neo-Babylonian
Chaldean dynasty
X
626–539
Persian
Achaemenid dynasty
XI
539–331
Hellenistic
Argead dynasty
XII
331–309
Seleucid dynasty
XIII
311–141
Parthian
Arsacid dynasty
XIV
141 BC–AD 224
See also: List of kings by Period and Dynasty
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The Seleucid dynasty or the Seleucidae (/sɪˈluːsɪˌdiː/; Greek: Σελευκίδαι, Seleukídai, "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family, which ruled the Seleucid Empire based in West Asia during the Hellenistic period. It was founded by Seleucus I Nicator, a general and successor of Alexander the Great, after the division of the Macedonian Empire as a result of the Wars of the Successors (Diadochi).
Through its history, the Seleucid dominion included large parts of the Near East, as well as of the Asian territory of the earlier Achaemenid Persian Empire. A major center of Hellenistic culture, it attracted a large number of immigrants from Greece who, encouraged by the Seleucids, formed a dominant political elite under the ruling dynasty.[1] After the death of Seleucus I, his successors maintained the empire's strength establishing it as a Greek power in West Asia;[2] the empire reached its height under emperor Antiochus III.[3] From the mid-second century BC, after its defeat at the hands of the resurgent Parthian Empire, the polity entered a state of instability with slow territorial losses and internecine civil wars. The Seleucids, now reduced to a rump state occupying a small part of Syria succumbed to the Rome's annexation of their territory in 64 BC under Pompey the Great.
The Seleuciddynasty or the Seleucidae (/sɪˈluːsɪˌdiː/; Greek: Σελευκίδαι, Seleukídai, "descendants of Seleucus") was a Macedonian Greek royal family,...
Macedonian Empire founded by Alexander the Great, and ruled by the Seleuciddynasty until its annexation by the Roman Republic under Pompey in 63 BC. After...
Egypt. With the advent of the Hellenistic period, Greeks and their Seleuciddynasty used the term "Syria" to designate the region between the Mediterranean...
The SeleucidDynastic Wars were a series of wars of succession that were fought between competing branches of the Seleucid royal household for control...
The Seleucid army was the army of the Seleucid Empire, one of the numerous Hellenistic states that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great. As with...
of the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion against the Seleuciddynasty. The Books of the Maccabees refers to a series of deuterocanonical...
BCE to 37 BCE. Between c. 140 and c. 116 BCE the dynasty ruled Judea semi-autonomously in the Seleucid Empire, and from roughly 110 BCE, with the empire...
of the Seleucids ended a forty-year period of conflict.[citation needed] The last century of Seleucid rule was marked by disorder and dynastic struggles...
campaign in the east. Antiochus III was a member of the Hellenistic Seleuciddynasty. He was the son of king Seleucus II Callinicus and Laodice II, aunt...
have been Governors of the Seleucid Empire. The Seleuciddynasty gradually lost control of Persia. In 253, the Arsacid dynasty established itself in Parthia...
one of four dynasties established by Alexander's successors, the others being the Seleuciddynasty, Ptolemaic dynasty and Antipatrid dynasty. The last scion...
died 150 BC) was a Seleucid princess. Through marriage to Perseus king of Macedon she was a Queen of the ruling Antigonid dynasty in Macedonia and possibly...
own monarchy in Judea following their revolt against the Hellenistic Seleuciddynasty. The Hasmoneans were not considered connected to the Davidic line nor...
Alexander the Great who went on to found the eponymous Seleucid Empire, led by the Seleuciddynasty. Initially a secondary player in the power struggles...
eventually killed by a Parthian counterattack. After the fall of the Seleuciddynasty, the Parthians fought frequently against neighbouring Rome in the Roman–Parthian...
Ptolemaic dynastySeleucid Empire under Seleuciddynasty Macedonian Kingdom under Argead dynasty, Antipatrid dynasty and then Antigonid dynasty Thrace and...
II, Ptolemy III seized control of the Seleucid capital at Antioch, and "so left the future of the Seleuciddynasty for a moment in question." Taking advantage...
The Argead dynasty (Greek: Ἀργεάδαι, romanized: Argeádai), also known as the Temenid dynasty (Greek: Τημενίδαι, Tēmenídai) was an ancient Macedonian royal...
The Chaldean dynasty, also known as the Neo-Babylonian dynasty and enumerated as Dynasty X of Babylon, was the ruling dynasty of the Neo-Babylonian Empire...
for the Seleucid throne, Ptolemy VI helped instigate a civil war which would continue for generations and eventually consume the Seleuciddynasty. In 145 BC...
that her Macedonian Greek family (the Ptolemaic dynasty) had intermarried with the Seleuciddynasty. Cleopatra's official coinage (which she would have...
the Dorians Seleuciddynasty (312–63 BC) – Iran within the Seleucid Empire; Ruled by the Macedonian tribe of the Dorians Arsacid dynasty (247 BC–AD 224)...
Alexander's own empire resulted in the Seleuciddynasty inheriting the lands formerly associated with the Achaemenid dynasty. Although Alexander himself did...
tendencies. After Alexander's death, four separate Hellenistic dynasties arose. The Seleucids controlled the former Persian Empire; the Ptolemies ruled in...
of Seleucus II and Queen Laodice. This dynastic feud began the Third Syrian War. Ptolemy III invaded the Seleucid Empire and landing at Seleucia Pieria...
- Ptolemy III seized control of the Seleucid capital at Antioch, and "so left the future of the Seleuciddynasty for a moment in question." Meanwhile...
– November/December 164 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic king who ruled the Seleucid Empire from 175 BC until his death in 164 BC. He was a son of King Antiochus...
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